This morning, I decided to update my Linux workstation. In the middle of the updates, something went horribly wrong. Either I hit something I shouldn't have on the keyboard, or my window manager crashed on its own. Either way, the window manager killed…

If you're looking for a different take on the desktop, Bodhi Linux is an option that will have you enjoying your computer again.

An affordable alternative to ChatGPT? And, open-source? Looks like we're joining the open-source race against ChatGPT.

Porteus Kiosk 5.5 Gentoo-based distribution for kiosks and public computers is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.1 LTS.

Sometimes I shutdown Ubuntu and …it takes ages to actually power off. Am I alone? Am I unreasonable? I'm not sure, but I am highly caffeinated — massive

In the first chapter of the Rust programming series, you learn to write and execute your first program in Rust.

Thanks to forthcoming work out of Red Hat, the Linux 6.4 Device Mapper (DM) code is expected to see some optimization work that can significantly benefit concurrent I/O performance..

Finnix 125 Debian-based Linux distribution for sysadmins is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.1 LTS.

First version built on 20.04 hits smartphones and tablets of UBPorts fans

Blender 3.5 open-source, free, and cross-platform 3D graphics software is now available for download with new features and improvements.

Earlier this month I wrote about Intel engineers working on more big optimizations to the Linux kernel with a focus on enhancing the kernel's performance at high core counts.

Ubuntu Unity's lead has come up with a new distro that sounds like something everyone might want to keep an eye on.

What's the best way to sample the Cinnamon desktop on top of an Ubuntu base? You may be minded to answer Linux Mint (and that wouldn't be a wrong answer)

Linux Lite 6.4 distribution is now available for download based on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS and featuring the lightweight Xfce 4.18 desktop.

The Bloomberg financial, software, and media company has announced their FOSS Fund as a small step for helping open-source projects they rely on and of interest to their employees.

One of the coolest customizations that you can make to your file manager is to add your own custom actions to the context menus. For example, in this video, I create a custom action where if I right click on a directory, the context menu now offers me a…

If you've been dying to download the Ubuntu 23.03 beta it's time to go get it — downloads are now officially available! This beta build arrives in advance

Immutability is a concept in trend. Take a look at what are the options you have for an immutable Linux distribution.

While WebKitGTK already provides accelerated compositing support, there are different code paths depending upon whether Wayland or X11 are used and various other complexities involved as well as differences between using the GTK3 and GTK4 toolkits

KDE's Plasma Mobile gets ported to KDE Frameworks 6 and Qt 6 and many of its core apps received new features and improvements.

One of several notable open-source projects to rewrite key Linux software components with the memory-safety-focused Rust programming language is uutils as an alternative to GNU Coreutils