Linux programmers do a better job of patching security holes than programmers at Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
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Looking for an easy way to get a top-level overview of your laptop’s battery health on Ubuntu? If so, check out Battery Status by Spanish blog Atareao. They’ve created a GNOME extension that reminds me a lot of the fancy menu bar apps avail…
GStreamer 1.20 is the fruitful result of 17 months of hard work from the entire community. Over 250 developers contributed code to make this release happen, and once again, Collabora had more contributors than any other organization. Collabora’s work focused on the two areas in which we believe GStreamer shines the brightest: embedded systems, and […]
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Lynis is a free and open-source security auditing tool released as a GPL licensed project. Learn how to audit a remote Linux system with the Lynis security tool here.
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I will walk you through the process of configuring both Filebeat and Zeek (formerly known as Bro), which will enable you to perform analytics on Zeek data using Elastic Security. The default configuration for Filebeat and its modules work for many envi…
Slax 11.2 is a major update of the portable distribution, which was once derived from Slackware Linux. Now, it’s based on Debian GNU/Linux and uses the lightweight Fluxbox window manager. Learn more here.
The post Slax 11.2 Released after more than 2 Y…
With Minder you will be able to easily and quickly create visual mind-maps thanks to an automatic layout system and the plethora of tree layouts to choose from. You can add images and tasks to nodes, create node-to-node connections with optional text and notes, add stickers and node groups, as well as to stylize nodes, […]
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With a ten-day delay from the initially planned release date, the GNOME 42 beta release is now ready for early adoption. Learn more here.
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This article gives you a step-by-step installation guide for the xmonad setup in Arch Linux with a custom pre-configured script.
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In the following tutorial, you will learn how to increase request timeouts in NGINX using proxy_read_timeout, proxy_connect_timeout, proxy_send_timeout directives to fix 504 Gateway Timeout error.
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gscan2pdf is a GUI tool used to produce PDFs or DjVus from Scanned documents,gscan2pdf works on all Linux / BSD machines.
This tutorial will be helpful for beginners to download and install gscan2pdf 2.12.5 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Linux Mint 20.3, and low…
Focusing on privacy, minimalism, and customization, these browsers have become powerful lightweight tools you can use to do every search you want.
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Discourse is an open-source community discussion platform built using the Ruby language. It is designed to work as a forum, chat software or mailing list. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Discourse Forum with the Nginx server on a Debian…
I’ve been having a lot of fun with Cardboard, the scrollable tiling window manager (WM) (STWM) for Linux. It’s quite an unusual WM, and it’s really only at the prototype stage. After the initial learning curve, I found that it helped me stay focused on one task, and it greatly reduced how much time I spent […]
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The new Linux kernel update patches five security vulnerabilities affecting all supported Ubuntu releases, including Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri), Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver), as well as the Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM releases. These include CVE-2021-22600, a double-free vulnerability discovered in Linux kernel’s Packet network protocol implementation, […]
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Slax, an impressive lightweight Linux distribution for 64-bit/32-bit computers, is back with an update after almost 4 years!
Slax 11.2 is based on Debian Bullseye version 11.2, with some new apps while dropping some.
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If you’re running your own mailserver, it’s best practice to connect to it securely with a SSL/TLS connection. You’ll need a valid certificate for these secure connections. In this tutorial, we’ll set up a Let’s Encrypt certificate for our mailserver t…
Lynis is a free and open-source security auditing tool released as a GPL licensed project and is available for Linux and Unix-based Operating systems. In this tutorial, we will provide instructions on how to perform a Lynis security audit on a remote s…
Apache Guacamole is a free and open-source remote desktop gateway that allows you to connect to your computer/server remotely using different protocols such as SSH, RDP, and VNC. In this tutorial, you’ll install and configure the Apache Guacamole to a …