As somewhat of an annual tradition for the FOSDEM conference, Daniel Kiper of Oracle presented a status update on the GRUB bootloader. As one of the GRUB maintainers he offers great insight to activity around this most common Linux bootloader.

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) user? If so, you will be pleased to hear that Ubuntu is now available in Microsoft’s new tar-based distro format — no need to use the sluggish Microsoft Store.

Back in October 2024, Respawn announced they were blocking Apex Legends on Linux platforms (including Steam Deck). Apparently this has worked quite well for them.

It kind of goes by under the radar, but aside from HP-UX, Solaris, and AIX, there’s another traditional classic UNIX still in active development today: UnixWare (and its sibling, OpenServer). Owned and developed by Xinuos, UnixWare and other related code and IP was acquired by them when the much-hated SCO crashed and burned about 15 years ago or so, and they’ve been maintaining it ever since.

The next major Debian release, 13 "Trixie," is expected to ship with GNOME 48 desktop environment.

Saying “I use Arch, btw” has become an iconic part of the Linux community over the years. Whenever a person installs Arch Linux, they automatically get the right to say those words anywhere they please, on online forums, sure, in a random encounter with a stranger, why not?

The Linux giant envisions AI development that mirrors open-source software's collaborative ethos. That won't be easy.

For those wondering whether Debian 13 would see the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop packages given the upcoming Debian 13 "Trixie" development freezes, it looks like this updated GNOME release will be squeezed in.

Mozilla published today the final release of the Firefox 135 web browser for all supported platforms, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.

Will now happily unleash the bots when 'likely overall benefits substantially outweigh the foreseeable risks'. Google has published a new set of AI principles that don’t mention its previous pledge not to use the tech to develop weapons or surveillance tools that violate international norms.

New research has found that data centres can reduce their energy usage by up to 30% simply by altering around 30 lines of code in the Linux kernel’s network stack.

You may have heard about how difficult the GRUB Linux bootloader is to install and configure. If that's holding you back from installing Linux, you should know it's nothing to be scared of, if you have to deal with it at all.

In today’s digital world, managing files efficiently is crucial. One common task is zipping files within a directory to save space or to prepare for sharing. This article will guide you through creating a Bash script that zips all files in a specified directory. The script will accept the directory as a command-line argument, extract the directory name, and generate a zip file named with both the original directory name and the current date and time. Let’s get started!

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 8 of the most useful free photo management tools.

Merged last year for the Linux 6.12 kernel was sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler possibilities by allowing schedulers to be implemented as eBPF code and dynamically loaded into the kernel. This allows for rapidly developing new schedulers as well as exploring other new possibilities around more intelligent kernel scheduling decisions. Meta, Google, Canonical (Ubuntu), and others have been big proponents of sched_ext and NVIDIA is also increasingly vocalizing their support for these extensible scheduler opportunities...

NVIDIA Linux driver introduced VRR support for Wayland since 560 driver series. It’s a feature that adjust the monitor’s refresh rate on the fly, to match the frame rate of output signal from the graphics card.

Mozilla Firefox 135 open-source browser now lets macOS & Linux users close only the current tab when using the Quit shortcut while multiple tabs are open.

I think it’s safe to say systemd won the competition to become the definitive successor so sysvinit on Linux, but Canonical’s Upstart made a valiant effort, too.

With Firefox 135 released, Firefox 136 is now in beta. Most notable with this next iteration of the Mozilla Firefox web browser is finally enabling hardware video acceleration by default for AMD GPUs on Linux...

Windows Media Player is a video and audio player that’s a built-in Windows component. Media Player is proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.