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12 Open-Source Penetration Testing Tools You Might Not Know

Red Siege has developed many open-source penetration testing tools. Give them a try; they’re all available on GitHub for free.
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Tube Converter: Open-Source Tool to Download YouTube Videos

Need to download a YouTube video? Then, make use of Tube Converter. It is a front-end for ‘yt-dlp’ that offers some neat features.
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8 Useful Bluetooth Tools for Linux

There are many other useful Bluetooth tools available for Linux. This article showcases a list of eight of our favorites.
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24 Top Open-Source Penetration Testing Tools

Open-source penetration testing tools are freely available software that help pentest teams identify areas of weakness in their systems. Check out our list of the top 24 here.
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14 Rust Tools for Linux Terminal Dwellers

Rust-powered tools for the terminal? Here are some of the best options as alternatives to some popular command-line tools!
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11 Best Tools to Access Remote Linux Desktop

Accessing a remote desktop computer is made possible by the remote desktop protocol (RDP), a proprietary protocol developed by Microsoft. It gives a user a graphical interface to connect to another/remote computer over a network connection. FreeRDP is …

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Best Tools to Install on Fresh Linux Mint Installation

So you’ve just installed a fresh copy of Linux Mint 20 and are ready to make the most of your new system. How do you move forward? In this guide, we will highlight some of the useful tools to consider installing which will enhance your user exper…

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Show a side-by-side git diff on any commit in tig using Meld

Side-by-side diffs are more readable to me than in-line diffs. Long time ago, I started using Meld to display them when working with git. But I always needed to manually specify branch or commit names. This week I finally spent some time and found a way to invoke Meld directly from tig, so that I … Continue reading Show a side-by-side git diff on any commit in tig using Meld

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Taskotron is EOL (end of life) today

As previously announced, Taskotron (project page) will be shut down today. See the announcement and its discussion for more details and some background info. As a result, certain tests (beginning with “dist.“) will no longer appear for new updates in Bodhi (in Automated Tests tab). Some of those tests (and even new ones) will hopefully … Continue reading Taskotron is EOL (end of life) today

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Automatically shrink your VM disk images when you delete files (Fedora 32 update)

I’ve already written about this in 2017, but things got simpler since then. Time for an update! If you use virtual machines, your disk images just grow and grow, but never shrink – deleted files inside a VM never free up the space on the host. But you can configure the VM to handle TRIM … Continue reading Automatically shrink your VM disk images when you delete files (Fedora 32 update)

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New Fedora package: ntfs-3g-system-compression

If you have a Windows 10 installation, you might not be able to read all files on its NTFS partition. Under certain conditions, Microsoft compresses system files with new compression algorithms which the ntfs-3g driver can’t currently read. Files are displayed with question marks when listed using ls, and you’ll see Input/output error or unsupported … Continue reading New Fedora package: ntfs-3g-system-compression

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Automatically shrink your VM disk images when you delete files

Update: This got significantly simpler with newer qemu and virt-manager, read an updated post. If you use VMs a lot, you know that with the most popular qcow2 disk format, the disk image starts small, but grows with every filesystem change happening inside the VM. Deleting files inside the VM doesn’t shrink it. Of course … Continue reading Automatically shrink your VM disk images when you delete files

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