Btrfs or commonly pronounced as b-tree FS or butter FS is a COW (copy-on-write) based disk storage format and filesystem combined with a volume manager. In this article, I will show you how to create a disk partition and format it with Btrfs file syste…
Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2021.3, the latest version of its popular open-source penetration testing platform. You can download it or upgrade to it.
The developers have also announced tweaks to Kali ARM images, a new site for exploring …
Cozy is different from the music players we’ve covered. While it plays music, the software is geared to playing audio books. Written in Python, Cozy is free and open-source software.
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OpenSnitch, a Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall for macOS, had a major new release today. The latest OpenSnitch 1.4.0 adds the ability to use eBPF to intercept processes, nftables support, allow/block lists, GUI improvements, and mor…
Linux Kernel 5.15 RC1 is released for testing, and it brings some interesting support and updates. In this post, we round up the important features of this Kernel release.
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plocate is a newer, much faster locate tool for findning files on the command-line. It’s a drop-in replacement for mlocate in nearly all aspects, including reusing the mlocate database, and it’s fast on SSDs and HDDs alike.
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Fedora is one of the best-known and most popular Linux distributions. This Fedora distro is developed by the community and has the support of Red Hat, which guarantees us excellent support and that we will always be up-to-date in terms of updates and patches. Although Fedora 35’s default desktop is GNOME 41, we can find […]
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jq is a Linux/Unix or macOS/*BSD CLI utility that efficiently extracts data from JSON documents. Now we have an excellent htmlq utility written in Rust. It’s like jq but for HTML documents. Here’s how to get started.
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The echo command is one of the most basic and important commands in scripting/programming! This command displays or prints arguments at the terminal. The command is included in all distributions (operating systems) as either the shell or bash. Usually, developers or programmers use echo commands in both debugging and building of products such as websites, […]
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The release of the computer role-playing game Veloren 0.11 , written in the Rust language and using voxel graphics, has been published. The project is being inspired by games like Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress, and Minecraft. Binary assemblies are built for Linux, macOS and Windows. The code is released under […]
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In the eyes of many computer users, Linux is perceived as largely functional, mostly restricted to running servers, office tasks, and web browsing. However, a wide and ever-growing range of native Linux games are available, but given the range, there are a number of locations where you pick them up. Whatever type of game you […]
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A war is going on in my house. Yes, that’s right. I call it “The War of O.S.’s.” My wife prefers Mac. My son is clan Microsoft. And I come from the foreign land of Linux. However, in recent years, we have called a truce. I don’t bring up why I think Linux is better […]
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Variables are important concepts in any programming language. This guide explains the types of bash variables in shell scripting with examples in Linux.
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Django is a free and open-source web development framework written in Python. It is used for developing complex and database-driven Python applications. In this tutorial, I will explain how to set up Django in Python virtual environment using the Postg…
For those who struggle to build a Kubernetes YAML, this YAML generator provides a form-based interface with descriptions and links to the Kubernetes documentation. It has live editing, so you can view the YAML as it is edited, and handy copy and paste …
This summer, xrdesktop, the Open Source project bringing the Linux desktop to VR on Valve’s SteamVR & Monado, took part for the first time in Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Here’s a recap of what we accomplished. Both students, Remco and Manas, successfully completed their projects and submitted merge requests, implementing all the new features […]
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Webmin is an open-source web-based interface that simplifies the administration of Unix systems. In this tutorial, we will cover how to install Webmin on CentOS and Rocky Linux, configure the firewall and access the Webmin web interface.
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Manjaro and Vivaldi announced a change to the default browser for the popular community edition Manjaro Cinnamon from the open-source Firefox to Chromium-based Vivaldi. The Manjaro team is hoping that this move gives Vivaldi the attention it deserves, …
Coming almost two months after LibreOffice 7.1.5, the LibreOffice 7.1.6 update is here to fix more bugs across all core components of the open-source software suite used by millions of users worldwide on GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms. A total of 44 bugs were squashed, according to the changelogs from RC1 and RC2. LibreOffice 7.2 […]
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The biggest new feature of the new Steam Client update is a brand new downloads page that’s easier to use and has a new design. The new download page now displays the total progress, including disk allocation process, when downloading or updating a game, as well as a faded progress bar and percent completed for […]
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