A look back at 40 Years of GNU and the Free Software Foundation

It’s fading from memory, but if it weren’t for GNU and the Free Software Foundation, open-source, and Linux, indeed, most of our technology-driven world wouldn’t be here.

FSF News: FSF celebrates forty years of GNU with a hackday for families, hackers, and hackers-to-be

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Wednesday, September 27, 2023 —
Today, the GNU Project turned forty years old. To celebrate this,
the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is hosting a hack day for
families, students, and anyone interested in hacking.

FSF celebrates forty years of GNU with a hackday for families, hackers, and hackers-to-be

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Wednesday, September 27, 2023 —
Today, the GNU Project turned forty years old. To celebrate this,
the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is hosting a hack day for
families, students, and anyone interested in hacking.

Slackware-Based Porteus 5.01 Released With Linux Kernel 6.5

Based on the Slackware 15.0 repositories, Porteus 5.01 received a major kernel bump, which will provide better hardware support.
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GNOME 46 Desktop Environment Slated for Release on March 20, 2024

The release schedule for the upcoming GNOME 46 desktop environment series suggests a final release date “set in stone” for March 20, 2024.
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LibreOffice 7.6.2 and 7.5.7 Address Critical WebP Vulnerability

LibreOffice 7.6.2 and LibreOffice 7.5.7 contain a fix for CVE 2023-4863, a heap buffer overflow discovered in the widely used libwebp library.
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Core Knowledge That Modern Linux Kernel Developer Should Have

by Roman Storozhenko

Languages

The Linux Kernel is written in C programming language, so C is the most important language for the Linux Kernel developer. Initially, the kernel was w…

The GNU Project Celebrates Its 40th Birthday

September 27 marks the 40th anniversary of the GNU Project, and it was celebrated with a hacker meeting in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland.

Firefox 119 Promises to Let Users Import Some Chrome Extensions

Firefox 119 promises to let users import some Chrome extensions (if they’re available for Firefox) when migrating data from Google Chrome.
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How to Install Skype on Rocky Linux 9

Follow along with these two methods on how to install Skype on Rocky Linux 9 utilizing Skype’s RPM or Flatpak with Flathub.

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Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 Officially Released

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 6 is now available to download. This official stable release follows a couple weeks of diligent testing on a beta build. There are no major changes compared to that beta so if you downloaded and installed it you can &#8…

Distribution Release: Linux Mint 6 “LMDE”

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Linux Mint team have announced the launch of a new version of the project’s Debian-based branch. The new version 6 (codename “Faye”) of Linux Mint Debian Edition offers most of the s…

How to Install qBittorrent on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

In this guide, you will learn how to install qBittorrent or qBittorrent-nox (Headless for WebUI) on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish.

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Compilation of Programming Languages Setup Guides on Ubuntu for Beginners

The Ubuntu Buzz has been covering several programming languages setup for years including C, C++, Java, Pascal, Rust, Qt, GTK and so on. This includes well known programmer text editors like Codeblocks, Eclipse, Geany, Qt Creator and so on.  Belie…

Distribution Release: Zephix 7

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Robert Spiteri has announced the release of Zephix 7, a major new release from a project that develops a small, modular operating system based on Debian’s “stable” branch. Zephix 7 is ba…

How to Install a Three Node GlusterFS Cluster on Debian 12

In this guide, you will learn how to create a high-available and replicated storage system with GlusterFS using multiple Debian servers.
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Distribution Release: Porteus 5.01

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Porteus development team has announced the release of Porteus 5.01, an updated release of the project’s Slackware-based Linux distribution with several popular desktop environments a…

How to Install PyCharm Python IDE on Debian

PyCharm is a free and open-source graphical IDE for Linux operating systems. Here, we’ll show you how to install PyCharm IDE on Debian.
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How to Set Up a Local DNS Server on Rocky Linux 9

In this tutorial, we will show you how to set up a Local DNS Server with Unbound on a Rocky Linux 9 server.
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mkfs.ext4 – What it actually creates

Introducing the internal data written to
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