For those relying on OpenVPN for your virtual private networking (VPN) needs, one of the most exciting innovations in recent times besides transitioning to the WireGuard alternative is the OpenVPN DCO kernel driver. This "data channel offload" driver has the potential to provide significant performance advantages over the current OpenVPN performance...

Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we know the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for human connection, and lets everyone find where they belong — their corners of the internet. We all have an internet story worth sharing. In […]

Find out if a swap partition is still necessary on modern Linux systems and how it influences system performance.

The Haiku OS open-source operating system inspired by BeOS has issued their newest monthly development report...

This roundup focuses on screen magnification accessibility tools.

Earlier this week IBM announced the z17 mainframes powered by Tellum I processors. But months prior we've seen IBM patches for an "arch15" target for SystemZ within the open-source compilers that we expected was z17. IBM has now confirmed such and has begun updating the open-source compilers to acknowledge this z17 compiler support...

Wireplumber is the session and policy manager for Pipewire. It has its own systemd user service. It is a separate project, with separate concerns. Current version is 0.5.8 on Fedora Workstation 41. Session managers save the current state of open audio applications along with their connections, allowing sessions to be easily restored without having to […]

The real issue here is people who attack computing freedom and help Microsoft damage Linux.

Linux Mint previews upcoming features: regex search in Nemo, Wayland support in Cinnamon, OEM installs in LMDE 7, and new CJS versioning.

Well here is a pleasant surprise, especially for those that recall the days long ago where Fedora Linux releases tend to be notoriously delayed... Fedora 42 is cleared for releasing next week Tuesday, 15 April, in meeting its "early target" release date...

Merged to the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver for the current Linux 6.15 kernel cycle is EU Stall Sampling support as a new feature found with Xe2 Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics. EU Stall Sampling is used for exposing information/reasons why execution units are stalled for helping to debug performance issues. Now that the kernel support is ready to go with Linux 6.15, merged to the Mesa 25.1 development code is the user-space support for this performance debugging feature...

The new Proxmox Backup Server 3.4 boosts performance with optimized garbage collection, better offsite sync filters, and improved tape backup throughput.

Initially developed for Oracle Linux, this version brings many useful enhancements to this open-source framework for in-place migrations.

Hyperion ships another patch, which is nice Belgian software house Hyperion Entertainment has released Update 3 for AmigaOS 3.2, the version of the classic operating system it launched in 2021. The update targets Amigas with 680x0 processors, including systems enhanced with PiStorm accelerator boards.…

In this guide, we'll take a dive into environment variables in the Linux shell. By the end, you'll not only know how to view and set these variables, but also how to persist them, use them in scripts, and troubleshoot issues effectively.

Flashcards are one of the best tools for memorizing information. This is partly because of their versatility. They can help teach multiplication skills, learn a foreign language, recall facts, historical dates, in fact anything that can be learned in an intuitive way.

Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.4 has been released with numerous new features and enhancements. This latest Proxmox VE 8.4 version is based on Debian 12.10.

The lightweight Linux distro Sparky 7.7 rolls out with kernel 6.1 LTS, updated Debian-based packages, and improved desktop environments.

The latest C++ iteration delivers powerful updates and improved multithreading to boost productivity, safety, and performance while preserving C++'s core strengths.

Meme is a command line utility for creating image macro style memes. It’s free and open source software.

This blog post will explain the HTTP 415 Unsupported Media Type Error and how to fix it. The following error occurs when the server cannot serve the requested format by the client because the format isn’t supported. In other words, this is a mismatch between what the client’s browser sends and what the server is willing to accept.

Yesterday brought the newest update to Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution, Azure Linux. The Azure Linux 3.0.20250402 brought many package updates mostly in the name of shipping security fixes plus brought new instructions on making use of the AMD graphics driver stack under this Microsoft Linux distribution along with various other updates...

Fwupd 2.0.8 introduces new plugins to update UEFI Signature Database and KEK, plus several bug fixes enhancing UEFI and hardware compatibility.

Red Hat might be the company making money off of Enterprise Linux, but the now discontinued Linux distribution CentOS Linux has many times more installs.

Merged back in Linux 6.9 was AMD Preferred Core support for Linux for the concept of "preferred cores" with newer Zen processors that are communicated via ACPI CPPC for select cores able to reach a higher maximum frequency or should otherwise be preferred over other cores on the system in the name of maximizing performance. That was a nice step forward for better handling newer Ryzen processors on Linux and matching functionality that had already been working under Microsoft Windows. Of focus more recently has been working on enabling more dynamic Preferred Core support for where the priority of the preferred cores may change at run-time...

The 1990s called – they're impressed The FreeDOS Project has released version 1.4 of its fully open source DOS-compatible OS – but you'll need a BIOS for bare metal.…

Proxmox VE 8.4 is out now, featuring live VM migration with NVIDIA vGPU, API for backups, virtiofs, and updated open-source tech.

Fwupd 2.0.8 is out today as the eighth maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility with support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes.

The Ubuntu 25.04 release shipping this month will now feature JPEG-XL image format support out-of-the-box...

openSUSE's new Agama installer v13 is here, bringing hostname configuration, LVM support, and more.