How to Install Linux on Your Windows PC

It’s simple to get Linux Mint up and running on a Windows PC. Here’s how you do it.
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elementary OS 6.1 “Jólnir” Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Dubbed “Jólnir,” elementary OS 6.1 comes more than four months after elementary OS 6 “Odin” and it’s built on top of the Ubuntu 20.04.3 point release of the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) long-term supported operating system series and powered by Linux kernel 5.11. Highlights of elementary OS 6.1 include a redesigned quick window switcher […]

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How to Install Suricata on RHEL, Rocky, and AlmaLinux

Suricata is popular as a result of it being an independent and open source threat detection engine. It’s a lifesaver for network administrators that are looking for a seamless and performant way to examine and manage network traffic issues. Learn…

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 19th, 2021

This has been a great week with some cool releases, starting with System76’s Pop!_OS Linux 21.10, which now also runs on the Raspberry Pi 4, and continuing with new EndeavourOS and Debian GNU/Linux 11 point releases to keep you up-to-date with the latest security and bug fixes. On top of that, we got a new […]

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Latest Steam Client Update Greatly Improves VA-API Hardware Decoding on Linux

The new Steam Client update comes less than a month after the previous update, which added support for VA-API hardware encoding on Linux, to greatly improves VA-API (Video Acceleration API) hardware decoding for Linux gamers using Steam’s Remote Play feature for playing local multiplayer games online. Also for Linux gamers, the new Steam Client release […]

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25 Useful Basic Commands of APT-GET and APT-CACHE for Package Management

This article explains how quickly you can learn to install, remove, update and search software packages using apt-get and apt-cache commands from the command line. This article provides some useful commands that will help you to handle package manageme…

How to Become a Linux Pro

Now, more than ever, companies want employees with Linux skills. Here’s how to get prepared for those jobs.
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How to Setup MySQL Replication in RHEL, Rocky and AlmaLinux

Data replication is the process of copying your data across multiple servers to improve data availability and enhance the reliability and performance of an application. In MySQL replication, data is copied from a database from the master server to other nodes in real-time to ensure consistency of data and also to provide backup and redundancy. […]

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Amazon Seeks Linux Experts for Luna

The Google Stadia fiasco seemed to have left the way clear for Windows to be the server technology that would dominate video game services via streaming, especially seeing NVIDIA GeForce Now, Amazon Moon, and obviously, Game Pass bet on Microsoft technology. However, it seems that Amazon Moon could take a turn in the future, as […]

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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 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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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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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…

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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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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