I've used and covered Linux for nearly 30 years. Here's my top pick for my favorite open-source distro in 2024.

AMD has squeezed in one more open-source Vulkan driver update for the year to benefit Linux gamers and others wanting to use this official AMD Vulkan Linux driver option.

The SignalSDR Pro is a Raspberry Pi-sized SDR that brings a credit-card-sized twist to software-defined radios (SDRs). It is a compact, streamlined device suitable for tasks ranging “from signal processing and spectrum analysis to communication systems and beyond.”

Now that 2024 is coming to an end, I feel it was a promising year for Linux and open source, with exciting updates, and interesting developments to look out for in 2025.

The pre-release OpenShot 3.3 open-source video editor debuts the "Cosmic Dusk" theme, ripple editing upgrades, Wayland-ready tools, and more.

Exwm is a lightweight tiling window manager for Linux that turns Emacs into a complete graphical environment. In this article, I will go through the benefits of using Exwm, install it on Ubuntu 24.10, and show some of what you can do with this fascinating window manager.

Are you familiar with Huffman encoding? That’s where you pick shorter codes for more frequent letters. Morse code is the same way, in that the most-used letters are the shortest. [Matheus Richard] had the same idea for optimizing your workflow in the Linux shell. The idea is to measure what commands you use the most and make them shorter.

It's been a few months since hearing anything new out of Serpent OS, the original Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty, who started Solus Linux and also was involved with Intel's Clear Linux. As a Christmas surprise, Serpent OS has now reached the alpha stage of development.

This tutorial shows how to share either the Public or certain user folder for local network access in Ubuntu 24.04 or Ubuntu 24.10 with default GNOME desktop.

siduction 2024.1.0 has been released today as a major update to this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution featuring some of the latest and greatest technologies and desktop environments.

ScummVM is the best way to play many classic games on modern platforms, especially games built around LucasArts’ SCUMM engine. ScummVM 2.9 is now available with support for more games and many bug fixes.

Microsoft Calendar is a personal calendar application which offers synchronization with various calendar services. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

A new version of OpenShot video editor is out (a video editor which doesn’t have the best reputation for stability hence the nickname OpenShut).

This past week Intel published an Intel Core Ultra 200S Series "Arrow Lake" performance status update following mixed reviews since launch around the Arrow Lake gaming performance that were inconsistent with Intel's internal findings.

Dual Russian-Israeli national arrested in August. An alleged LockBit ransomware developer is in custody in Israel and awaiting extradition to the United States.…

Serpent OS enters alpha with fresh GNOME and COSMIC builds, streamlined rust-based components, and expanded hardware support.

Are you having trouble remembering what IP addresses are in use on your network? Jack Wallen shows you how to discover those addresses with two simple commands.

Ike Doherty released today the long-anticipated alpha version of his new independent Linux distro, Serpent OS, which features some of the latest and greatest technologies and applications.

Meet YQPkg, the modern, lightweight Qt-based package manager for OpenSUSE, designed to replace YaST and simplify package management.

The patch series in the works for a while to provide the necessary kernel abstractions for the Rust programming language to actually implement real device drivers looks like it will finally premiere in the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...