French BSD enthusiast Joel Carnat has written a how-to guide on setting up a laptop with OpenBSD for general use. It's worth a go for the Unix-curious. … [Read more...]

CachyOS is a performance-optimized rebuild of Arch Linux, with a simpler installer and dozens of desktops and options to tweak. Stable reliability, not so much. … [Read more...]

Following the new ESR version of Firefox, upon which it is based, the latest Thunderbird is out too – with a fresh new look. … [Read more...]

Zed – sorry, US readers, that's its name, not "Zee" – is a new coding tool. Until very recently it was Mac-only, but not any more. Zed Industries has just released version 0.143.6 of its new source code editor for developers, with a fresh feature that its users have been requesting pretty much since it appeared: it now runs on Linux as well as … [Read more...]

Get comfortable, it'll be here for a whileFirefox 128 is out with a relatively modest feature set – but it will also be the latest Extended Support Release (ESR) release, meaning that the end for Firefox 115 is coming into view. … [Read more...]

X co-designer David Rosenthal looks back at why his other project failed. A couple of weeks after its anniversary, one of the original engineers behind X has explored why it succeeded where rivals – one of which he co-developed – failed. … [Read more...]

Why go outside in the sunshine when you could play with tiny computers in a darkened room? Perhaps hoping to mark independence from x86 PCs, there's a new July 4th release of the official Raspberry Pi OS, although it remains coy of giving a version number. … [Read more...]

The FreeDOS project celebrates its 1994 beginnings, about a week before Amazon – and just a year after FreeBSD got started. … [Read more...]

Google is adding more languages to Google Translate – lots more. This time around, 110 of them, including Manx. This is the largest single expansion ever to Google's translation tool. It now handles 243 different tongues, coming close to doubling the number of languages it handles. … [Read more...]

This year, along with all the usual in-depth technical talks about Linux at Red Hat's Devconf.cz developer conference, there were also several people there to promote AI-linked projects and the tech bros' previous favorites – blockchain projects. … [Read more...]