The Linux kernel is the beating heart of every Linux installation. We look at where it came from, what its purpose is and why, without the kernel, there would be no Linux.

Unlike COW filesystems like BTRFS and ZFS, traditional Linux filesystems like ext4 and XFS have no way to detect slow data degradation (also known as bitrot), since they don’t perform data checksumming. When using those filesystems, however, we can store and verify integrity information at the block level, using dm-integrity. In this tutorial, we learn how to create dm-integrity devices with the integritysetup utility, and when creating LUKS containers, using cryptsetup.

Is it time for open source browsers like Firefox to shine again and grab some market share? Only time will tell.

Khronos Group unveils Vulkan 1.4, bringing 8K rendering, dynamic features, and streamlined cross-platform development.

The Schleswig-Holstein state government in northern Germany is migrating 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Windows and Office to Linux and LibreOffice, prioritising digital sovereignty and reducing reliance on proprietary software.

A new version of the Cinnamon desktop environment has been tagged for release – a sure-fire sign that the Linux Mint 22.1 beta is on the way!

Succeeding the Intel Arc Graphics discrete graphics cards that launched two years ago as the DG2/Alchemist series, the next-gen Battlemage graphics cards are being announced today. The embargo lifts today on the new Intel Arc B-Series graphics cards with initial availability next week.

Lutris, the popular free and open source game manager for Linux, has a fresh update out now fixing up some issues and adding in a good bunch of new features. With this app you can manage games on Linux Desktop / Steam Deck from Epic Games, Humble, GOG, Steam, Emulators and much more.

For this instalment in the series, we examine the power consumption of the DreamQuest N100 Mini PC and compare it to four other machines.

Nitrux developer Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 3.8 as the latest stable version of this immutable and systemd-free distribution derived from Debian GNU/Linux and built on top of the KDE Plasma desktop environment.

If you're not sure how to view your SSH certificates, this article walks you through the steps on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

This article is the next in a series of posts we’ll be doing to provide more information on how Anonym’s technology works. We started with a high level overview, which you can read here.

A new feature proposal seeks to improve the Fedora Linux experience when running under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows 11.

EasyOS is an experimental Linux distribution. Heritage includes concepts from Puppy Linux, unique features include a custom container technology, and lockdown techniques. The Scarthgap-series is the current flagship release and version 6.5 has just been announced.

RustDesk 1.3.3 open-source remote desktop adds mobile clipboard, Mac arm sound, "untagged" address filtering, and GPU improvements.

The LILYGO T3 V3.0 TCXO is a development board based on the ESP32 microcontroller, offering integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth V4.2 + BLE connectivity. It features multiple GPIOs, QWIIC connectors, and LiPo battery support, making it suitable for portable applications. Unlike other LILYGO products with LoRa support, such as the T5 E-Paper S3 Pro, the T3 […]

Findmnt is a free and open source utility usually included in the core packages of all the major Linux distributions. It is able to list all mounted filesystems or retrieve data for only those we specify. In this tutorial, we learn how to use findmnt, and how to query filesystems by type, mount options and other parameters.

wttr.in is a console-based weather forecast service that offers lots of options including various information representation methods. These include terminal-oriented ANSI-sequences for console HTTP clients, HTML for web browsers, or PNG for graphical viewers.

KDE and GNOME are gearing up to build their own Linux distributions. What does this mean? Let's find out!

A while ago in November, it seems I missed a post from a user in the GamingOnLinux Discord server, noting that the Discord developers finally hooked up screen and audio sharing for Linux with Wayland.