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Assessing the environmental impact of software

Germany created Blue Angel, the world’s first eco-label for software, back in 2000. The methodology behind Blue Angel could serve as a model for other countries as governments turn their attention to the environmental impact of software.

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Assessing the environmental impact of crypto mining

With climate change wreaking havoc across the planet, we were just beginning to think about how we could use our technology to conserve fuel and reduce our carbon footprint. Then along came crypto mining.

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Managing port security

A few basic commands for working with ports can help you make your small network or standalone system more secure.

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Linux Magazine Full Feed 2022-04-07 15:01:31

This month in Kernel News: Git Merge "Simplification" Advice; Loading Modules from Containers; Git Tree Synchronicity; and The New "No New Warnings" Warning.

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Use a general purpose input/output interface on Linux computers and laptops.

The general purpose input/output interface is not just for small-board computers anymore: You can use GPIO on your Linux desktop or laptop, too, through the USB port.

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Linux Magazine Full Feed 2022-04-07 15:01:09

This month Graham looks at Surge XT, Kröhnkite, MQTT Explorer, Mandelbulber v2, Simutrans, and more.

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Create cartoons and anime with OpenToonz

OpenToonz is a professional animation tool for comic and manga artists.

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Finding a path to energy-efficient software

Sustainability studies for the IT industry often ignore the contributions of software. This article explores what developers and admins can do to create and maintain more energy-efficient systems.

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How to Find User Accounts with Empty Password in Linux

In this guide, we will learn about Shadow password files in Linux. Learn how to find user accounts with an empty password in Linux.
The post How to Find User Accounts with Empty Password in Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

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Creating a LibreOffice Music Database

LibreOffice Calc and Base are all you need to create a simple database for organizing the songs in your music collection.

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Rethinking Unix-like systems

Matthew Dillon, founder of DragonFly BSD, discusses the past, present, and future of BSDs.

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Building apps with NocoDB

NocoDB lets you build useful applications without writing a single line of code.

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Why is Kopper and Zink important? AKA the future of OpenGL

Since Kopper got merged today upstream I wanted to write a little about it as I think the value it brings can be unclear for the uninitiated. Adam Jackson in our graphics team has been working for the last Months … Continue reading

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Protecting Against the Spring4Shell Vulnerability

Spring4Shell (CVE-2022-22965) is a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that affects Spring Core. Learn about protecting against Spring4Shell here.
The post Protecting Against the Spring4Shell Vulnerability appeared first on Linux Today.

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gzip @ Savannah: gzip-1.12 released [stable]

Thanks to Paul Eggert and Lasse Collin for all the work
on fixing the exploitable zgrep bug, and to Paul for
handling most of the other changes.

Here are the compressed sources:
  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.12.tar.gz   (1.3MB)
  https://ft…

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31 Must-Have FFmpeg Commands for Beginners

This post introduces 31 most commonly used FFmpeg commands with examples to perform various tasks, including converting media formats, trimming videos, etc.
The post 31 Must-Have FFmpeg Commands for Beginners appeared first on Linux Today.

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How to Install Memcached on Alma Linux 8

Memcached stands for "memory object caching systems", is an open-source and high-performance distributed memory caching system used to speed up dynamic database-driven web applications. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Memcach…

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How to Install GlusterFS on Rocky Linux

GlusterFS or Gluster File System is a free and open-source distributed file system developed by RedHat. GlusterFS is a scalable file system formed from several servers into one entity file system that allows users to connect and mount the GlusterFS vol…

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Fedora Plans to Drop Support for Legacy BIOS Systems

On x86_64 architectures, Fedora 37 will mark legacy BIOS installation as deprecated in favor of UEFI. While systems already using Legacy BIOS to boot will continue to be supported, new Legacy BIOS installations on these architectures will be impossible…

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How to Configure Path-Based routing in an AWS Application Load Balancer

In AWS, ELB and Elastic Load Balancing exists a concept where the servers can be added or released as per the demand of our application and the incoming traffic from an application is distributed among multiple targets. In this tutorial, we will config…

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