The other day, Dan Lorenc, CEO and co-founder of the software supply chain company Chainguard, wrote on LinkedIn that “open source is not a good strategy for startups.” What? Do you think I was going to disagree because I’m a big open-source fan? Think again! Yep, it’s a great development model, but it never has […]
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Does Wayland becoming the de facto standard display server for Linux serve to marginalize BSD?
Before we pop the cork on the champagne bottles and start the celebrations, perhaps we should consider that this good news for Linux might not be good news f…
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Super Grub2 Disk is a live platform that helps the user to boot into almost any operating system even if the system cannot boot into it by normal means. The project’s latest release is S…
AppImages are great: a single runtime containing all of the dependencies needed for an app to run in a double-click binary that can be run from anywhere on your system. And therein lies the rub. When I download an AppImage for software like Audacity, K…
Git 2.46 distributed revision control system brings better error handling, enhanced color parsing, new global options, updates to symbolic refs, and more.
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As Paris attracts crowds sports tourists for the 2024 games, mobile apps marketed to attendees are tracking them, collecting their private data, and then hawking it to advertisers and big tech.
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The UBports Foundation announced today the release and general availability of Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 as the latest stable version of this Ubuntu-based privacy and freedom-respecting mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets.
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NTFS-3G is an open-source implementation that enables Linux and other Unix-like operating systems to read from and write to Windows NTFS partitions.
If you are currently using Proxmox 7.4, note that it will reach end-of-life (EOL) on July 31, 2024. It is time to upgrade your Proxmox server. This detailed tutorial will guide you through the steps to upgrade to Proxmox 8.2 from Proxmox 7.
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This tutorial shows how to install and setup RetroArch to play classic video games, including Arcade, Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, Sony Playstation games, in Ubuntu PC or laptop. RetroArch is a free open-source cross-platform front-end for emulators, game engines, media players, and other applications. It’s the reference frontend for the libretro API, that offers several uncommon […]
This tutorial shows how to install and setup RetroArch to play classic video games, including Arcade, Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, Sony Playstation games, in Ubuntu PC or laptop. RetroArch is a free open-source cross-platform front-end for emulators, game engines, media players, and other applications. It’s the reference frontend for the libretro API, that offers several uncommon […]
OPNsense 24.7 ‘Thriving Tiger’ open-source firewall and routing platform rolls out, powered by FreeBSD 14.1, with enhanced VPNs and performance.
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GStreamer 1.24.6 open-source multimedia framework offers essential bug fixes & security updates. Here’s more on that!
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According to a new survey, Oracle’s been bleeding Java JDK customers since it got greedy with its pricing in 2023.
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Polychromatic 0.9.2 open-source management front-end for OpenRazer rolls out key fixes and a new OpenRazer config option.
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SysVinit 3.10 system management daemon fixes bootlogd loop, supports “machinectl stop,” and improves documentation.
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Sixteen months after its previous release, Links 2.30, а terminal browser, has been released with several improvements. Here they are!
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Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 software update is now rolling out to all supported devices with various improvements and fixes. Here’s what’s new!
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Before you dive too deep into your new distro, follow my to-do list of post-installation steps. It’s 10 minutes well spent!