Canonical Releases New Ubuntu Kernel Updates to Patch Intel “MMIO Stale Data” Flaws

On Tuesday, June 14th, 2022, Intel disclosed a series of new hardware vulnerabilities discovered by various security researchers that affect some of its processors. The four vulnerabilities were marked as having a “medium” security impact. The company released firmware updates to mitigate these potential flaws discovered in the Memory Mapped I/O (MMIO) method, which is […]

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Ubuntu Runs on a Google Nest Hub, Wait, What?

A hacker successfully managed to run Ubuntu on a Google Nest Hub (2nd Gen), say, what now?
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The History of the Ubuntu Linux Distribution

Ubuntu is one of the most popular and widely used Linux distributions in the world, thanks to its user-friendliness, elegant and simple UI, and a large online community that provides support and solutions to common user problems. As a result, over the years, Ubuntu has become one of the most recommended Linux distributions for beginners. […]

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9 Best Matrix Clients for Decentralized Messaging

Some of the most helpful Matrix clients, primarily for desktop (Linux, Windows, macOS), while also mentioning mobile and terminal clients.
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10 useful YUM commands in Linux

YUM (shortcat for “Yellowdog Updater Modified“) package manager is responsible for managing the packages from the YUM repositories located on the server at /etc/yum.repos.d/. Here are ten must-know commands to get the most out of YUM.
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Error Resolved: 1698 (28000) Access Denied for User ‘root’@’localhost’

This error is very common when you try to log in to your MySQL for the first time. Personally, I too faced this issue multiple times, maybe because we were not following the right way to install MySQL, or we forgot to set a password, or else we didn’t get the options to set a password. Similarly, there may be many other […]

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How to Configure SSH Passwordless Login on openSUSE 15.3

One of the well-known and generally accepted OpenSSH best security practices is to configure and use public key authentication a.k.a passwordless authentication. Although this approach is fundamentally for security, on a lighter note, it also allows for ease of use because of not having to type a password every time you attempt to log on […]

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How to Install VSCodium on Linux Mint 20

VSCodium is a fork of Microsoft Visual Studio Code Editor modified to have full open-source access. The following tutorial will teach you how to install VSCodium on Linux Mint.
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Valve Releases Proton 7.0-3 with Support for 19 Games to Play on Linux, More Improvements

Arriving one and a half months after Proton 7.0-2, the Proton 7.0-3 release is here to add support for more Windows games that you can now play on your GNU/Linux distribution through Steam Play/Proton. These include Age of Chivalry, Beneath a Steel Sky, Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamer Edition, Cities XXL, Cladun X2, Cursed Armor, […]

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How to Install VLC Media Player on Linux Mint 20

VLC media player is an open-source, free portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC can play nearly all known multimedia files and DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols and can be extended and customized with multiple plugins. Here’s how to get it up and running […]

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KDE Plasma 5.25 Comes with Another Dose of Customization Capabilities

KDE Plasma, as we all know, is about the endless possibilities for personalization. And the just-released KDE Plasma 5.25 is no exception. New touchpad gestures, syncing the accent color, and touch mode are some of the new features in the KDE Plasma 5….

How to Upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.25 from 5.24

A beginner’s guide to upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.25 from Plasma 5.24 desktop environment via terminal and GUI method.
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GIMP 2.10.32 Released with Support for 8/16-bit CMYK(A) TIFF Files, BigTIFF

GIMP 2.10.32 is here almost six months after GIMP 2.10.30 with a bunch of cool changes, starting with support for importing 8-bit and 16-bit CMYK(A) TIFF files, support for importing and exporting BigTIFF files, as well as built-in support for JPEG XL files (without the need of a third-party plugin). This release also improves support […]

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KDE Plasma 5.25 Released: Dynamic Accent Colour, Floating Panel, and More

Release highlights of KDE Plasma 5.25 which brings the first-ever dynamic accent colour based on the wallpaper, floating panel and more.
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Monica Setup on Portainer | A Personal Relationship Manager

Today’s society moves fast. We’re consistently bombarded with news and social media posts and, even with FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), it’s easy to get overwhelmed with everything going on in our lives and forget important dates and events. Now that we’re going out and doing more in the world again, attending more gatherings, we’re […]

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KDE Plasma 5.25 Desktop Environment Is Out Now, This Is What’s New

Four months in the making, the KDE Plasma 5.25 desktop environment series is here to introduce exciting new features like full control of the Tablet Mode from both Wayland and X11 sessions, new finger-following (1:1) touchpad gestures for touch-friendly devices, a configuration window for KRunner, as well as a new floating mode for the panel […]

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Best Approaches to Choosing Your First Linux Distro (Beginner’s Guide)

For the average PC user who has been using the established desktop operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and macOS, Linux can be somewhat confusing. So, are you a newcomer to Linux? Not sure which Linux distribution to choose to begin your Linux …

Linux History Command with Advanced Examples

All the commands get stored by the shell interpreter: Find where it is stored, how to make it useful; and clear the history data if there’s something you don’t want to save in the record.
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What’s the Difference Between Vi and Vim Editors

In the course of this transition, we find ourselves leaning more and more towards this operating system’s non-graphical user interface. Reason? The Linux OS environment hosts numerous computing tools associated with it. This non-graphical user interfac…

Mozilla Introduces Local Machine Translation Tool for Firefox

Mozilla introduced an Add-on to help you translate web pages locally without transmitting the data to the cloud or server.
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