For years, one-time Linux Netfilter developer Patrick McHardy made money by threatening users with legal action for using “his” open-source code. That won’t happen again.
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SAS JMP (pronounced “jump”) is a suite of computer programs for statistical analysis. Find the best free and open source alternatives to SAS JMP here.
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Several months in the works, Phosh 0.15.0 is a massive update with hundreds of changes, starting with full support for VPN authentication. This means that there’s now a VPN indicator in the top bar that displays the VPN state, as well as a VPN quick setting that will appear when there’s at least one VPN […]
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Linux Kernel 5.17 RC1 (release candidate 1) is now available for download and testing. Learn more about it here.
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If you’d like to use Arch Linux but don’t want to build everything from the ground up, we list five of the best Arch-based Linux distros.
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Working on Wayland and Weston color management and HDR support has been full of learning new concepts and terms. Many of them crucial for understanding how color works, and what the values in a pixel actually mean. With color knowledge being surprisingly scarce, Pekka Paalanen has written “A Pixel’s Color”, an introduction to people who […]
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antiX Linux is a lightweight desktop Linux distribution based on Debian. Learn about the bug fixes in antiX Linux 19.5 here.
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According to the researchers, the vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034) was discovered in PolicyKit’s pkexec tool, which incorrectly handled command-line arguments. This could lead to local privilege escalation, allowing any regular user in a GNU/Linux distribution to gain administrative privileges and run programs as an administrator (root). The good news is that most major GNU/Linux distributions already received […]
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More than a year in development, the Vulkan 1.3 API is here to introduce dynamic rendering through the VK_KHR_ extension as a streamlined path to start rendering and to significantly reduce application complexity, as well as an additional dynamic state through the VK_EXT_extended_dynamic_state2 extension to further reduce the number of pipeline permutations. Vulkan 1.3 also […]
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Azure SQL Database is a fully managed platform as a service (PaaS). Azure handles database management functions such as upgrading, patching, backups, and monitoring and we do not need to worry about these operations. In this article, we will see how t…
LibreNMS is a monitoring tool that supports auto-discovery with multiple protocols, including SNMP, ARP, OSPF, and BGP. In this article, you will learn how to add hosts to the LibreNMS monitoring system using the SNMP protocol.
In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to install PHP on CentOS. Beginner-friendly, step-by-step instructions on how to install different versions of PHP on different versions of CentOS. All PHP versions included by default in CentOS 7 and 8 are outdated and over their EOL. This tutorial shows you how to install PHP […]
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InvoicePlane is a free, open-source, and self-hosted application for managing your quotes, invoices, clients, and payments. It is used by many organizations and freelancers to manage their payments and invoices.
Sail is a free and open-source CLI tool to provision, install and manage WordPress applications in the DigitalOcean cloud. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install the Sail CLI utility, how to configure it and provision your first WordPress server. You will also learn how to manage domains, backups, deploy and revert changes […]
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Git is the most popular free and open-source distributed version control system in the world. It is easy to learn and has a lightning-fast performance.
This tutorial will be helpful for beginners to install Git 2.35.0 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 21.10,…
Coming less than two weeks after DXVK 1.9.3, the DXVK 1.9.4 release is here to enable performance optimizations and DLSS support for the God of War video game, which needs the Proton Experimental branch of Valve’s compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine. To improve both accuracy and GPU-bound performance, DXVK 1.9.4 also enables […]
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Telnet can perform a few things that can be very helpful for Linux network administrators, like testing the open port over the remote system for troubleshooting, which is not possible in SSH protocol.
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The concept of NFS (Network File System) empowers a user on a client computer to have read and write privileges on shared file directories on a server computer. This over-the-network file-sharing concept is implementable by anyone due to its open-source attribute. Before this article guide teaches us how to implement the NFS protocol, we first […]
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DNF stands for Dandified YUM, it is a completely updated version of YUM Package Manager. It was originally introduced on Fedora 18, and has now become the default package manager on Fedora 22, RHEL, and CentOS-8 to handle the RPM package management. DNF improves the deficiencies of YUM, including poor performance, high memory usage, and […]
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In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Vivaldi Browser on Rocky Linux 8 Workstation.
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