Linux

Ubuntu 24.10 Beta is Now Available to Download
A beta of Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole’ is now available to download, giving developers and enthusiasts the chance to test and assess and the changes before October’s stable release. Developers and non-developers alike can download t...
2024-09-20 20:36
Wine 9.18 Delivers New Desktop Control Panel Applet
Wine 9.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software that enables running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...
2024-09-20 20:16
Ubuntu 24.10 Beta Released For Testing
The beta release of Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" was released in time for some weekend testing...
2024-09-20 19:05
GNOME 46.5 Released with Mutter and GNOME Shell Improvements
GNOME 46.5 is now available as the fifth maintenance update to the GNOME 46 desktop environment series with more bug fixes and improvements. Here's what's changed since GNOME 46.4. The post GNOME 46.5 Released with Mutter and GNOME Shell Improvements a...
2024-09-20 13:06
Ubuntu 24.10 Making Preparations For The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5
For months there has been talk and speculations around Raspberry Pi working to release a Compute Module 5 (CM5) in putting the power of last year's Raspberry Pi 5 into the small form factor for various embedded/industrial applications. It's pretty much...
2024-09-20 12:55
Life at Canonical: Amy Song shares her experience as a new joiner in Customer Success
As Canonical continues to grow, we have developed a unique onboarding process that enables our new hires to quickly settle and establish themselves in our globally distributed environment.  During your first few weeks your manager will create an o...
2024-09-20 10:42
The Fastest AArch64 Linux Distribution On The 192-Core AmpereOne
When it comes to the question of the fastest x86_64 Linux distribution the answer is very easy with Intel's Clear Linux. But what about in the AArch64 world? When having the AmpereOne server in the lab curiosity got the best of me and I ran benchmarks ...
2024-09-20 10:30
New Wacom Drawing Tablet Driver Features With Linux 6.12
The HID subsystem updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel. Notable this time around are some new feature additions for the popular Wacom drawing tablet support...
2024-09-20 09:47
Proposal Seeks To Replace MySQL With MariaDB By Default For Ubuntu 25.04
Most Linux distributions have been defaulting to MariaDB as the default MySQL server for years. Ubuntu though has been a notable outlier still relying on Oracle MySQL for the default MySQL service. A proposal raised by an Ubuntu developer hopes to chan...
2024-09-20 09:02
Canonical and OpenAirInterface to collaborate on open source telecom network infrastructure
Canonical is excited to announce that we are collaborating with OpenAirInterface (OAI) to drive the development and promotion of open source software for open radio access networks (Open RAN). Canonical will bring automation in software lifecycle manag...
2024-09-20 08:51
Simplifying Container Management with Podman Pods on Fedora Linux
This article, will introduce Podman Pods and demonstrate how to use them with a simple application built using Node.js. The app will be lightweight and easy to set up, showcasing the power of running multiple containers in a pod. What is a Podman Pod? ...
2024-09-20 08:00
Quickstart in Full Disk Encryption with TPM and YaST2
This is a quick start guide for Full Disk Encryption with TPM or FIDO2 and YaST2 on openSUSE MicroOS. It focuses on the few steps to install openSUSE MicroOS with YaST2 and using Full Disk Encryption secured by a TPM2 chip and measured boot or a FIDO2 ...
2024-09-20 07:00
Gfxstream Merged Into Mesa For Vulkan Virtualization
After seven months under review, Google's Gfxstream code has been upstreamed into Mesa 24.3 as a Vulkan virtualization solution...
2024-09-20 06:42
OpenZFS Merges Support For Direct IO
The OpenZFS project has merged DirectIO (O_DIRECT) support for the ZFS file-system to bypass the ARC for reads and writes...
2024-09-20 06:30
Haiku OS Working On USB 3 SuperSpeed Plus Support
The Haiku open-source operating project known for letting the BeOS spirit live on is out with their newest monthly progress report...
2024-09-20 06:20
Dell XPS 9345 With Snapdragon X1 Sees Linux Patches But Not Yet Speakers & Other Features
Following the other recent work around Linux enablement for Snapdragon X1 powered laptops, yesterday patches were posted for getting the X1 Elite powered Dell XPS 9345 working with Linux but not all functionality is currently working...
2024-09-20 06:11
Real-Time "PREEMPT_RT" Support Merged For Linux 6.12
After many years in the making, it finally was merged overnight... The real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel support was merged a few hours ago into Linux Git for this year's Linux 6.12 kernel!..
2024-09-20 05:47
Vivaldi Web Browser is Now Available as a Snap
Vivaldi web browser has arrived on the Canonical Snap Store, officially. This Chromium-based web browser has long been available on Linux, offering a traditional DEB installer for Ubuntu users (which adds an APT repo for subsequent updates). And while ...
2024-09-20 01:58
Proton 9.0-3 Released with Support for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Farlight 84
Proton 9.0-3 is now available with support for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Ball at Work: The Ultimate Speedrun Platformer, Farlight 84, Flatout 3, KinitoPET, and other Windows games. The post Proton 9.0-3 Released with Support for Avatar: Frontiers o...
2024-09-19 19:53
Zorin OS 17.2 Released with New Appearance Options, Linux Kernel
Zorin OS 17.2 is now available for download, bringing users of the Ubuntu-based Linux distribution a welcome set of improvements and updates. The latest major release in the Zorin OS 17 series, which is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, is described by the Zo...
2024-09-19 17:57