Protecting the Internal Attack Surface

Security is more than a firewall. The biggest worry is what happens when an intruder gets inside. We take a look at some common misconfiguration issues that can lead to privilege escalation.

Run a Shell on THEC64 and THEA500

Miniature retro computers like THEC64 and THEA500 let you replay some of the classic home computer games from the 1980s and 1990s. Under the hood, their modern CPUs run Linux, letting you do much more.

Stay safe with Flatseal, the Flatpak Permissions Manager

Use an intuitive graphical interface to manage Flatpak application permissions and secure your Linux desktop.

Configuring a Surveillance Camera with Udev and Systemd

You can use systemd to make your computer react when you change a file or plug in a device. We’ll show you how to leverage these powerful features to build a surveillance system.

How to Use the watch Command in Linux to Monitor Commands in Real Time

The post How to Use the watch Command in Linux to Monitor Commands in Real Time first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .You’ve probably run df -h, waited a few seconds, and run it again while a file copy or backup was
The pos…

At 45-Years-Old, C-Kermit Gets Its First New Release in 15 Years

C-Kermit, the long-running communications utility born at Columbia in 1981, is back with its first major new release in 15 years.
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Linux’s Favorite Music Player Rhythmbox 3.5 Lands After Nearly a Decade in the 3.4 Series

The release also adds lrclib.net, sidecar .lrc files, and embedded Ogg lyrics as new sources.

Linux Kernel Begins Phasing Out the crypto_rng Layer to Simplify Random Number Generation

by George Whittaker

Linux kernel developers are moving forward with plans to remove the crypto_rng API layer, a long-standing component of the kernel’s cryptographic subsystem. The pro…

FFmpeg 9.0 Released with New GPU Accelerated Decoders [Ubuntu PPA]

FFmpeg, the popular free open-source multimedia library, released new major 9.0 version today. The new version of this library introduced some new decoders and encoders, hardware accelerated encoders and filters for better performance, as well as many other new features. First, FFmpeg 9.0 introduced decoding animated WebP images support, as well as, extracting its individual […]

AI Helped Develop a Linux Exploit

A use-after-free race exploit was discovered and exploited on CentOS Stream 9.

Paprius icon set gets first update in a over year with 80+ new icons

Fan of the the Papirus icon theme will be pleased to hear there a new update – the first since May 2025. For Papirus’s first update in 2026 (the tardiness of which its maintainer, Serhii Yeremenko, apologises) brings over 80 new icons or updated …

Escape the Algorithm: 10 RSS Feed Readers You Can Self Host in Your Homelab

Create your own feed. Read from the websites you follow. Cut the noise. Ditch the big tech algorithms. Self-host your own feed reader. Here are the best choices.

FSF Blogs: July GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali featuring fourteen new GNU releases: Screen, Anastasis, and more!

Source: Planet GNU

GNOME Boxes Won’t Look Ancient Anymore Thanks to a Glow-Up

A full rewrite moves it to GTK4 and Libadwaita, with Windows 11 support being tidied up.

Greg Casamento: Open Source Is Hobbling Itself Over Generative AI

 The answer to bad AI-assisted contributions is not a purity test. It is better engineering discipline.Earlier this year, a discussion in the GNUstep community raised a proposal that will sound familiar across the Free Software world: prohibit AI-gen…

NVIDIA 610.57.04 Released with Many Game Fixes

NVIDIA announced the 610.57.04 driver along with 595.91.07 for Linux this monday! The production branch driver 595.91.07 includes only many bug fixes and improvements, while the 610.57.04 feature branch driver fixed crashes in many games. For Steam users or those who play Windows games in Linux through Proton, the new NVIDIA 610 driver fixed STALKER […]

How to Monitor Commands Executed by Linux Users in Real Time

The post How to Monitor Commands Executed by Linux Users in Real Time first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Checking .bash_history after the fact, it only shows the commands a user typed, and that’s only if they didn’…

Dropbeat is yet-another slick music controller for GNOME Shell

Dropbeat is a new riff on a old tune, a panel-based music applet for GNOME Shell that gives you an alternate way to pause, play and skip tracks in MPRIS-friendly Linux media players. Applets of this ilk are legion, and this panel applet doesn’t d…

Ubuntu’s turning another system Deb package into a snap

Ubuntu is moving hwctl from Deb package to snap-only distribution, a change Canonical says improves security and desktop integration.
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Curl dropped from Ubuntu 26.04 minimal server images by mistake

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s minimal cloud images have been missing curl – accidentally, it turns out, so Canonical has put it back. Curl is a commonly-used command-line tool for fetching files from remote servers. It’s called on in countless install…