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Warith Al Maawali has announced the release of Linux Kodachi 7.0, an updated version of the project's privacy-focused Linux distribution that also includes a number of forensic tools. Despite a major change in version number, this release is still based on Xubuntu 18.04. From the changelog: "Linux kernel....

We’ll take you today in a tour in Ubuntu MATE 20.04 to see together how more polished and stable it became, what newly-introduced features are there and whether you should consider it for using it as your daily driver.

The Free Software Foundation[he]#039[/he]s (FSF) annual conference LibrePlanet went fully virtual in 2020 due to ongoing issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic. In our last week of preparations before the live event, increasingly disturbing news related to the virus made us realize we could not responsibly hold our usual conference on software freedom in person while protecting the safety of our participants and their communities.

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Pop!_OS 20.04News: Slackware merges PAM support, glimpses behind the scenes at the Finnix project, Haiku developing support for additional filesystemsTips and tricks: Creating, removing, modifying, and ignoring aliasesReleased last week: OpenBSD 6.7, NuTyX 11.5, GoboLinux 017Torrent corner: Bicom Systems, Container, Endless OS,....

The Xubuntu project announced that they have moved the development activities to GitHub from Launchpad.

Version:5.7-rc7 (mainline) Released:2020-05-24 Source:linux-5.7-rc7.tar.gz Patch:full (incremental)

Ampache is a free, open-source, and web-based software that allows you to host your own music streaming server.

Microsoft used this year’s edition of the Build developer conference to announce the Windows Package Manager, a concept that Linux users will find very familiar and which is supposed to make app installation much more seamless.

Redcore Linux, a Gentoo-based distribution featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment and pre-built binary packages, has published a new version. The latest release is Redcore Linux 2004 "Neptune" which features new kernel versions, rebuilt packages with an updated tool chain, and swaps out SysV init for OpenRC's init....

German computer manufacturer TUXEDO Computers has unveiled TUXEDO Book BA15 as their first AMD-only laptop with a Linux OS pre-installed.

On Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, tar is undoubtedly one of the most used archiving utilities

On Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, tar is undoubtedly one of the most used archiving utilities; it let us create archives, often called “tarballs”, we can use for source code distribution or backup purposes. In this tutorial we will see how to read, create and modify tar archives with python, using the tarfile module.

How to Install Docker on Ubuntu 20.04. Docker is a open-source platform that uses OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers.

Here’s some good news. EA recently announced that they will be making two of the popular titles of the franchise (Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert) open source.

I see this question popping up quite often in different conversations. Recently, we had a good discussion about it within my team. The main question was about how to communicate openly with the community, as well as have the space to build a team and work as a team. This can be challenging; for example, when a company or a sponsor pays a part of the contributors to work full time on a project.In this article, I will explain why agile works with the open source development model.read more

Speakers from Shopify and LinkedIn outline open source database cloud and security challenges and best practices at the Percona Live Online conference.

Most of us will probably need to use a translation tool at some point in our lives. Here are some of the best language translators for Linux.

Need to share files between your mobile phone and PC? Here you'll learn how to share files between Android and Ubuntu on your local network.

Lucas Villa Real has announced the release of GoboLinux 017, a new stable build of the project's independently-developed Linux distribution which departs from the standard UNIX filesystem hierarchy by replacing it with an database-like structure. The new GoboLinux also introduces a Homebrew-style package management and the latest version....

GNOME, the popular Linux desktop, didn[he]#039[/he]t just avoid paying a patent troll, it won the right for any product under an Open Source Initiative license to use code covered by the company[he]#039[/he]s patents.