Simple, yet powerful. That seems to be the new mantra for more than just this excellent media player from GNOME.

No single Linux distribution can compete with Windows’ hardware compatibility. But you’ll find a surprising breadth of support for graphics hardware Early Linux desktops were crude affairs, sharing ...

Last year, we looked at Neuros, a company that aims to put Linux in living rooms with open set-top boxes. The company’s flagship product is the Neuros OSD, a DVR that runs a heavily customized Linux ...

There are Linux distributions out there for pretty much every taste and purpose, but every once in a while I’ll come across one that seems especially intriguing. That happened this week with the ...

As a sound server for Linux, Pipewire 1.4 addresses music production requirements with an extended JACK API and MIDI 2 and contains new codecs. The new version of the ...

As a multimedia-capable platform Linux has seen terrific growth over the past few years. At the system level, a simple kernel patch can now improve scheduler efficiency and bring performance latencies ...

Two friends and myself are planning on building a cheap-as-chips system to store our films and TV shows. It needs to be able to display them (up to 1080p would be nice) on our TV, as well as feed ...

I don't usually write book reviews, but this one is special. My friend and colleague Daniel James has written an introduction to the world of media production with Linux, or as the subtitle describes ...

It is pretty common these days for laptops, and even desktops, to be able to boot from a USB flash memory drive. So you can save a little time and a little money by converting various Linux ...