One of the standout features of Manjaro 25.0 is its enhanced support for Flatpak, a universal package management system. This ...

Founded in 2008 by the Zorin brothers, Zorin OS was created with one mission: to make Linux accessible to everyone, ...

openSUSE Leap 16 marks a significant evolution in the openSUSE project, integrating the robustness of SUSE Linux Enterprise ...

The inclusion of Rust-based tools in Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka represents a significant milestone—not just for Canonical, ...

Petros Koutoupis, LJ Editor at Large, is currently a senior performance software engineer at Cray for its Lustre High Performance File System division. He is also the creator and maintainer of the ...

The kernel this. The kernel that. People often refer to one operating system's kernel or another without truly knowing what it does or how it works or what it takes to make one. What does it take to ...

Prior to Memcached, our Web nodes unconditionally hit our databases. This worked, but it wasn't as optimal as it could've been. I realized that even with 4G or 8G of memory, our database server caches ...

To see this in action, open a terminal with a Bash prompt and run the commands from the "Example Microservice Deployment" script above to pull the Ruby image onto your Docker host and create a ...

Stories of compromised servers and data theft fill today's news. It isn't difficult for someone who has read an informative blog post to access a system via a misconfigured service, take advantage of ...

"Marley was dead, to begin with."—Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. As you surely know by now, Linux Journal started in 1994, which means it has been around for most of the Linux story. A lot has ...

In many cases, Flatpak offers more flexibility and consistency for desktop applications, while Snap leans toward system and server software. Many Ubuntu users choose to disable Snap in favor of ...