Set The Currently Playing Spotify Song Title And Album Cover As Your GNOME Wallpaper With This Script

Blueberry is a new Python scripts that sets your currently playing Spotify song title and album cover as your GNOME desktop wallpaper. To use it, you need Spotify Premium. The wallpaper includes the album cover in the center, while also using the 2 main colors from the cover to paint the rest of the wallpaper. […]

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Set Up and Configure Primary and Secondary DNS in CentOS/RHEL

This article will help you to set up DNS (Domain Name System) on a Linux/Unix-based system. DNS is mainly used to resolve host-names, which means it can easily bind IP addresses into a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) like www.linuxteck.com or www.google.com to IP addresses like 166.62.27.62 or 172.217.166.110. It is one of the basements of the […]

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The StarLabs Kingdom Has a New King!

In 2019, I wrote my first Linux product review about StarLabs laptops. As a fan of Linux and open-source stuff, I consider their laptops one of the best. The StarLabs team kept working hard in developing new models and improving their hardware and software. Consequently, in the past few months, “StarBook” has been crowned as […]

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Understanding Cloud Computing Basics

In this article, we will be learning about the basics of cloud computing, its various models and types. We will also look into Cloud computing architecture and characteristics in detail.
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Log4Shell: A New Fix, Details of Active Attacks, and Risk Mitigation Recommendations

Due to the extraordinary widespread use of the open-source Apache Log4j library, the saga of the Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) vulnerability is nowhere near finished. As Dr. Johannes Ullrich, Dean of Research at the SANS Technology Institute, recently noted, “Log4Shell will continue to haunt us for years to come.” His advice? “Dealing with Log4Shell will be a […]

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KDE Frameworks 5.89 Further Improves the Plasma Wayland Session, Fixes Many Bugs

KDE Frameworks 5.89 is here to further improve the Plasma Wayland session by making the Morphing Popups effect work correctly so that panel tooltips have a smooth animation when they appear and disappear, fixing Plasma OSD (On-Screen Display) to respect KWin’s maximized window placement policy, and improves support for QtWidgets apps like Dolphin, Gwenview, or […]

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How to Use Wget Command in Linux with Examples

The post How to Use Wget Command in Linux with Examples first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .In this article, we will review the wget utility which retrieves files from World Wide Web (WWW) using widely used protocols like HTTP,…

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 948

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: The PinePhone running Manjaro and Plasma MobileNews: How good is Wayland for gaming, running Linux on Apple M1 computers, finding and fixing bugs on Ubuntu, Debian updates Bullseye mediaQuestions and answers: P…

Host Multiple Websites on One server using Docker Containers

Docker is an extremely useful platform that enables developers to easily develop and deploy applications. In this article, we’ll look at how to use Docker containers to host multiple websites on a single server. One of the most significant benefits of using Docker containers is that they are lightweight, faster,…

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How To Parse Arguments In Bash Scripts With getopts

In this article, we are going to see how to parse arguments in bash scripts using bash’s built-in getopts function with examples.
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GRUB Not Showing Windows on Your Ubuntu Dual Boot? Here’s a Fix

I bought a new ‘distro testing’ laptop in the Black Friday sale last month (don’t get carried away, it cost me £200 and a lot of headaches) but I only installed Ubuntu 22.04 on it this weekend — and instantly hit a snag. See, normally…

Generate Dynamical Passwords in a Linux terminal

The weakness of password management systems is a need to save passwords in a warehouse, which may be hacked. It would be hard to hack them if they were not kept in a warehouse. In this case, the weakness of modern password management systems will be removed. Therefore, we have the following problem: How to use and manage passwords […]

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‘Useless Gaps’ Adjusts Space Between Snapped Windows in GNOME Shell

Do you want the aesthetics of i3-gaps but without the i3 bit? If so, that’s exactly what the wryly titled ‘Useless Gaps’ GNOME extension gives you. The dev says of their creation that it adds “useless gaps around tiled and maximized w…

How to Install and Use Rdiff-backup in RHEL Systems

Data backup is an important element of successful Linux administration. It is a skill set mastered by most Linux users and administrators. Whether you are after remote or local data backup solutions, it is important to consider the efficiency of a back…

Development Release: ALT Linux 10.0 Beta

ALT Linux is a Russian distribution which is available in Workstation and Server editions. The distribution’s latest version is a development snapshot for the upcoming 10.0 release. “Members of the ALT family can run on different hardware platforms. A…

EndeavourOS Atlantis Neo Arrived as a Christmas Present

EndeavourOS uses the well-known Calamares installer and might be classified as a beginner friendly desktop variant of Arch Linux. Just two weeks after the release of EndeavourOS Atlantis, all fans have reason to rejoice – EndeavourOS Atlantis Neo is he…

Debian GNU/Linux 11.2 “Bullseye” Released with 30 Security Updates and 64 Bug Fixes

Debian GNU/Linux 11.2 is here more than two months after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 11.1 “Bullseye” as yet another up-to-date installation and live medium that incorporates all the latest security updates and miscellaneous bug fixes released during this time for existing users through the main software repositories. In numbers, this second point release includes […]

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Coinbase Publishes Kryptology Library of Distributed Crypto Algorithms

Coinbase, the company supporting the eponymous digital currency exchange platform, announced the opening of the source texts of the cryptographic library Kryptology. Kryptology offers a set of cryptographic algorithms for use in distributed systems in which encryption and authentication is carried out with the involvement of several participants. The code is written in the Go […]

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OS Release: ReactOS 0.4.14

The ReactOS team has announced the release of ReactOS 0.4.14, the latest stable build of the project’s open-source operating system whose goal is to be able to run Microsoft Windows programs and drivers. The new version is a “maintenance” release that…

Vulnerability Found in the USB Gadget Linux Kernel Subsystem

A vulnerability (CVE-2021-39685) has been identified in USB Gadget, a subsystem of the Linux kernel that provides a programming interface for creating client USB devices and software simulation of USB devices. This could lead to a kernel leak, crash, or arbitrary code execution at the kernels. The attack is carried out by an unprivileged local […]

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