Ubuntu 24.10 may have only just been released, but development on the next version is getting underway and the codename for Ubuntu 25.04 revealed. Since codenames are alphabetical (as of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS; restarted at ‘A’ with 17.10) it mean…
ZRAM is a Linux kernel module that allows you to create a compressed block device in RAM, that effectively increases the amount of usable memory on your system by compressing data stored in RAM, which can be especially useful for systems with limited physical memory, allowing them to run more applications simultaneously without slowing down. […]
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Debian Developer Niko Tyni announced that Debian Unstable has been upgraded to Perl 5.40.0, bringing a range of new features, security updates, and bug fixes.
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Clonezilla Live 3.2 is here a little over three months after Clonezilla Live 3.1.3 to bump the kernel from the Linux 6.9 used in the previous version to Linux 6.11 to provide users with better hardware support. It also rebases the underlying GNU/Linux …
A network analyzer (also known as a packet analyzer, packet sniffer, or protocol analyzer) is software that intercepts and logs traffic that passes over a computer network or part of a network. Here are 15 free packet sniffers you should check out.
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LibreSSL 4.0 introduces portable changes, bug fixes, and internal cleanups. Now supporting OpenBSD 7.6, improving TLS, X.509, and RSA key handling.
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Learn about the /etc/mtab file in Linux, the different sections inside it, and the similarities between mtab and fstab files with examples.
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This tutorial shows how to configure Ubuntu or other Linux to redirect certain URLs or domains to specific web browser, while leaving all others open in the default browser. When clicking an URL in email reader, chat app, and other apps, it by default opens the linked page in system default web browser. However, some […]
Still powered by the Linux 6.10 kernel series, Solus 4.6 ships with a newer graphics stack, namely Mesa 24.2, for an extra boost in games and other graphics software. It also brings more usr-merge work, which aligns Solus with the compatibility efforts…
Fail2ban is free and open-source IPS (Intrusion Prevention Software) that helps administrators secure Linux servers against malicious login and brute-force attacks. In this guide, you’ll learn how to install Fail2ba on Ubuntu 24.04 server.
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. AlmaLinux OS is an open-source, community-driven project that is built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project has published a new beta snapshot of the 9.x series. …
Five years after it was accepted into the CNCF Sandbox project, KubeEdge becomes a graduated project at CNCF.
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Understanding the intricacies of the Linux boot process and the GRUB bootloader configuration is essential for system administrators, developers, and Linux enthusia…
Coming just ten days after fwupd 2.0, the fwupd 2.0.1 release adds an API to allow the GNOME Firmware graphical frontend to record devices for emulation, as well as support for saving the emulation-tag devices to the database instead of the configurati…
Clonezilla Live 3.2, a partition and disk imaging/cloning program, is here with Debian Sid base, Linux kernel 6.11, and improved disk scanning.
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Learn a step-by-step guide to deploying Laravel applications on Ubuntu with Apache and MySQL.
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VirtualBox 7.1.4 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with initial support for Linux kernel 6.12 and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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KDE Plasma 6.2.1 is here to improve support for XWayland games when using screen scaling by making pointer acceleration behave the same as in native Wayland apps, add a visible title to the Wallpapers page in System Settings, and remove the extra paddi…
KDE Plasma 6.2.1 is now available as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment series. Coming soon to a GNU/Linux distro near you!
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