Linux and Open Source news headlines
Updated: 2 hours 37 min ago
Wed, 10/16/2024 - 22:20
Oracle released today VirtualBox 7.1.4 as the second maintenance update in the VirtualBox 7.1 series of this powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform virtualization software for Linux, macOS, Solaris, and Windows.
Wed, 10/16/2024 - 22:20
Are you tired of Windows but scared of Linux? But what if Linux looked like Windows and offered a user-friendly terminal-free user experience? Here are five Linux distributions offering a Windows-like experience so you can smoothly make the jump to Linux!
Wed, 10/16/2024 - 22:20
Richard Biener of SUSE published a GCC 15.0.0 status report for outlining the current development state of the GCC 15 open-source compiler as it works its way toward the stable GCC 15.1 release in the early months of 2025.
Wed, 10/16/2024 - 22:20
PlayTogether Studio who made Run Prop, Run! and the Mad Experiments: Escape Room series have put up a demo and release date for Puropu Defense Squad. A mixture of a shooter and tower defense. The good news is that it has a demo up now you can play for Steam Next Fest that was expanded with more content, and it will release with Native Linux support on December 9th.
Wed, 10/16/2024 - 22:20
Clonezilla Live 3.2, a partition and disk imaging/cloning program, is here with Debian Sid base, Linux kernel 6.11, and improved disk scanning.
Wed, 10/16/2024 - 22:20
Fail2ban is free and open-source IPS (Intrusion Prevention Software) that helps administrators secure Linux servers against malicious login and brute-force attacks. In this guide, you'll learn how to install Fail2ba on Ubuntu 24.04 server.
Wed, 10/16/2024 - 22:20
Straight forward install Pycharm-community-2024.2.3 via extracting tar ball either snapwill fail showing up following error : $ ~/Downloads/pycharm-community-2024.2.3/bin[he]gt[/he] ./pycharm.sh**Start Failed**Internal error java.lang.InternalError: Unable to load native GTK librariesTo avoid this failure libgthread-2_0-0 is supposed to be preinstalled.
Wed, 10/16/2024 - 22:20
The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.2.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment series with an initial batch of bug fixes.
Wed, 10/16/2024 - 22:20
Debian Developer Niko Tyni announced that Debian Unstable has been upgraded to Perl 5.40.0, bringing a range of new features, security updates, and bug fixes.
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 22:20
Python comes with several different libraries that allow you to write a command line interface for your scripts.
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 22:20
In short, there's some dodgy private company trying to promote itself by trash-talking "Linux" for over 10 days already (many shallow pieces in "the media"). But it's not about Linux, it's about servers that haven't been patched for ages and it's the fault of some outdated programs installed on them.
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 22:20
LibreSSL 4.0 introduces portable changes, bug fixes, and internal cleanups. Now supporting OpenBSD 7.6, improving TLS, X.509, and RSA key handling.
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 22:20
As Matt Mullenweg and David Heinemeier Hansson feud over FOSS, community worries about the fallout. WordPress has banned its user groups from accepting sponsorship from WP Engine – or even allowing its employees to attend events.
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 22:20
A lot of early UNIX and therefore Linux games struggled with the fact that the X toolkit was geared towards constructing staid graphical user interfaces, rather than for the speed and flexibility needed by games.
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 22:20
Learn how to install iTunes on Ubuntu using a Wine program, then how to launch iTunes on Ubuntu, including its removal steps.
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 22:20
Fwupd 2.0.1 has been released today as the first maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility for Linux-based operating systems.
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 22:20
In addition to NVIDIA engineers being at XDC 2024 in Montreal last week for talking about their Wayland driver plans, there was also a presentation by NVIDIA's Daniel Dadap around current Linux challenges in supporting dynamic display mux hardware on modern laptops with iGPU/dGPU combinations and their hopes for improving the support.
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 22:20
Wiznet has recently released the W55RP20-EVB-Pico dev board, a compact board based around the W55RP20 SiP that fuses the Raspberry Pi RP2040 MCU and the W5500 Ethernet controller into a single IC, plus a 2MB flash chip for firmware storage.
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 22:20
SUSE Edge 3.1 includes a new stack validation framework and an image builder tool that are aimed at improving the scalability and manageability of complex Kubernetes and Linux edge-computing deployments.
Tue, 10/15/2024 - 22:20
Find out the CLI and GUI methods to add and remove passwords from PDF files on Linux, Windows, and macOS with a practical example.