The Twenty-Ninth International Obfuscated C Code Contest – or IOCCC for short – is back again with the results of the 2025 competition. This year, one of the entrants has a unique new trick up their ...

Although there’s probably no good reason to want to run image editing software from 1996 other than for nostalgia’s sake, if ...

As I've grown more comfortable with Linux, I've discovered alternative methods of installing apps. Sometimes, they're better ...

Do you have an ancient laptop or desktop just lying around? Transform that aging PC into an NAS, experiment with a new OS, ...

Even basic tools like less are absent by design. Microsoft's principal program manager for Azure open source, Lachlan Evenson, told ZDNET that the company chose Fedora as its upstream so Azure Linux ...

Microsoft's Fedora-derived Azure Linux 4 has hit a new milestone: you can now run it outside of Azure. The project's GitHub page now offers ISO file downloads in addition to its A ...

Eighteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of June 30, 2026): apl-2.0: GNU APL is a free interpreter for the programming language APL. It is an implementation of the ISO stan ...

Jupyter Notebook is a tool to run and write Python code easily, showing results right away, and allowing you to combine code, charts, notes, and files in one place. You can start Jupyter Notebook ...

Zorin OS makes Linux feel familiar enough for Windows users to try it without feeling like they have to relearn their ...

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