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Guide on installing Otter Browser on Manjaro Linux with cli commands for users that seek an alternative browser based on the best aspects of Opera 12 with QT5.

osTicket is an open-source and one of the most widely used ticketing systems by small and medium-sized businesses. It is a simple and easy-to-use web-based customer support portal that helps you to manage and track all tickets.

IPFire developer Peter Müller announced today the general availability of IPFire 2.27 Core Update 172 as the latest stable release of this open-source hardened Linux firewall distribution for routers and firewalls bringing updates to VPN cryptography and updated components.

Zephix 6 is now available for download for all portable OS enthusiasts, coming with improved boot operations in its new version.

Google Contacts is a contact management service. It’s available on the sidebar of Gmail, a web app, and for Android. Contacts is proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

Disempowering technologies take away legitimate control from their operator. For example, not being able to stop a Windows upgrade at a critical moment. I've quit counting the classroom hours lost to inefficient and dysfunctional Microsoft products that ran amok out of my control while students stared out the window.

Introduction GitHub enables distributed and collaborative code development. To ensure software works correctly, many projects use continuous integration to build and test each new contribution before including it. The continuous integration service on GitHub is GitHub actions. Background GitHub offers testing on Ubuntu, macOS and Windows operating systems. However, there is a wide variety of […]

As the internet opens the planet into a world stage, inclusion should be at the forefront of how we design, build, and implement our ideas. With 15% of people self-identifying as disabled worldwide, that is far too many people to leave behind due to lack of accessibility. This includes permanent, temporary, episodic, and situational disabilities.

GNOME 43.2, the second maintenance update to the latest GNOME 43 desktop environment series, was officially announced today by GNOME developer Javier Jardón via GNOME Discourse to give us an insight into the changes, fixes, and performance improvements introduced so far.

A Virtual Private Network is a tool that lets you browse the internet with some degree of anonymity. While OpenVPN is an open-source network connection protocol used to facilitate a secure tunnel between two points in a network. OpenVPN is both a VPN protocol and software that uses VPN techniques to secure connections. It is one of the most popular and well-known VPN protocols among VPN users. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install OpenVPN on Ubuntu 22.04 server.

Lately, I have been paying closer attention to the changelogs I get from products and services when updates are needed.

The EdgeBox-ESP-100 is a rugged controller equipped with the ESP32-S3 SoC. This new product from SeeedStudio offers support for fieldbus solutions as 1x CAN Bus, 1x RS485. Ethernet LAN port, and other isolated peripherals. Unlike other SeeedStudio products from the Edge Series (i.e. EdgeBox-RPi-200/1000), the EdgeBox-ESP-100 integrates the following ESP32 SoC.  ESP32-S3 – Xtensa 32-bit […]

You can easily install the software and use it on your distribution, which is what we’ll explain in this article.

In January, MX Linux users will be able to get the new Xfce 4.18 desktop environment as an update. However, if you’re impatient, here’s how to install it right now!

Ubuntu Unity maintainer Rudra Saraswat writes today about the new features and improvements coming to the Unity 7.7 desktop environment, which will be available next year as part of the Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) release.

A summary of the changes in Linux Kernel 6.2 RC1 which brings more Rust support with updates across CPU, GPU, Storage and more.

Canonical, the company that funds the development of Ubuntu, is likely to go public through an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in 2023.

Rust is consistently voted one of the languages people most want to learn. In 2022, Opensource.com had a few articles to help you get started. Rust is a fairly new language, but it's grown quickly.

The scientific community builds upon open access and open information. Recalling the famous quote in a 1675 letter by Isaac Newton: "if I have seen further [than others], it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." The scientific community has built our collective knowledge of the world around us on the information shared by those who came before us, and that is still the case today.

In today’s article, we will examine the current state of the Xfce desktop, as well as some important feature highlights in the latest 4.18 release.