It's your computer, not ours – but we may go ahead and update it for you, says team

In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different reasons to use Linux.

The hot new open-source RISC-V chips now have free introductory classes to help you get up to speed with this new hardware.

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 5.

For those wanting to help in testing out the Linux 5.12 kernel, at least it should no longer eat your data now if you rely on a swapfile.

Flutter users can now use the same codebase to build apps for iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, Linux and the web.

In this edition of our open source news roundup, learn about open source on Mars, System76's new keyboard, a 5G open source stack, and more.

Evernote can now be installed on Ubuntu and Debian-based Linux distributions. Here's how to do that.

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Openbox has always been my favorite floating window manager. It holds a special place in my heart due it being the first window manager that I used when I switched to Linux. And I still find it so darn comfy to use!

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Given this week's launch of Chrome 89 and the recent Firefox 86 debut, here are some quick benchmarks for those curious about the current performance when using Ubuntu Linux with a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Radeon graphics.

Some new laptops come with built-in integrated light sensor. Operating systems use this sensor to measure the ambient light conditions and change the screen brightness automatically. This helps in reducing eye strain.





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Canonical choose Google's Flutter UI SDK (software development kit) to build future apps for its popular Ubuntu Linux operating system.

In August 2020, a set of security vulnerabilities in GRUB2 (the GRand Unified Bootloader version 2) collectively known as BootHole were disclosed. Today, another set of vulnerabilities in GRUB2 were disclosed, with similar implications. Because GRUB2 is a…

croc is a free and open source command line tool for secure file transfers between computers.

Phoronix is the leading technology website for Linux hardware reviews, open-source news, Linux benchmarks, open-source benchmarks, and computer hardware tests.

Mageia is a GNU/Linux distribution that is a community project begin life as Mandrake, which then became Mandriva, which then became Mageia. This is a rpm-based distro that uses a static release model and is known for stability.

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The LibreOffice 7.1 open-source office suite series gets its first point release to fix more than 90 bugs discovered in various core components.

Future Ubuntu apps made by Canonical will use Flutter, Google's open-source UI framework. We ask whether this news will help or harm the Ubuntu experience.