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Schleswig-Holstein Government agencies to adopt Linux and LibreOffice to move away from vendor lock-in.

The alarming discovery of a backdoor in the xz data compression library , which had the potential to compromise Linux systems, has dominated recent security news. While the backdoor did not make its way into production Linux distributions, the incident raises crucial questions about open-source security and the need for vigilance in the face of emerging threats.

Like many types of software, the selection of a favorite music player is, to some extent, dependent on personal preferences. Nevertheless, we are confident that the applications featured in this article represent the most appealing music players.

A simple tutorial to demonstrate how you can access any web server in VirtualBox from any host machine on the network.

Wayland integrates explicit sync, eliminating flickering and frame pacing issues with NVIDIA drivers on Linux. Here's more on that!

If you’ve ever wondered why some Linux users are experiencing issues with an NVIDIA GPU on Wayland and you aren’t, KDE developer Xaver Hugl explains in a recent post why the explicit sync protocol will finally settle the score for everyone.

PiVPN's journey concludes with v4.6.0. The last update brings bug fixes, refactors, and the addition of Pi-hole in unattended installs.

If you own a Linux server, you’re probably already doing some of these maintenance tasks. Our checklist will help you keep track of all the tasks you should do on your server to properly maintain it.

xfmpc is a graphical GTK+ Music Player Daemon (MPD) client focusing on a low footprint.

Fwupd developer and maintainer Richard Hughes announced today that future releases of the popular Linux firmware updater used by GNU/Linux distributions to update the firmware of various hardware devices are moving away from XZ Utils and will adopt Zstandard (zstd) instead.

Per https://forum.manjaro.org/t/xz-package-contains-a-vulnerabil... Arch does not directly link openssh to liblzma, and thus this attack vector is not possible. You can confirm this by issuing the following command: $ ldd "$(command -v sshd)" . However, out of an abundance of caution, we advise users to remove the malicious code from their system by upgrading either way. This is because other yet-to-be discovered methods to exploit the backdoor could exist. – Arch Linux - News: The xz package has been backdoored

For the first time, an open-source maintainer put malware into a key Linux utility. We're still not sure who or why - but here's what you can do about it.

Arkime is a free, open-source, large-scale indexed packet capture and search tool that stores and indexes network traffic in PCAP format. This tutorial will show you how to install the Arkime Packet Capture tool on Ubuntu 22.04.

Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora before, this is a perfect way to get started. There are two upcoming test days […]

fooyin is a customisable music player that strongly resembles foobar2000. Unlike foobar2000, fooyin is open source and available for Linux.

Noni Radio Module with Qualcomm’s Chipsets for WiFi-7 Connectivity

Durdraw is a command-line ASCII, Unicode and ANSI art editor which seeks inspiration from classic ANSI software such as TheDraw, Aciddraw and Pablodraw.

Peppermint Mini's latest ISO updates enhance setup with direct firmware integration and a unified installer theme. Here's more on that!

Managing users and their group memberships efficiently is a fundamental task in Linux and Unix system administration. In this tutorial, we will explain how to add a user to multiple groups in Linux and Unix.

Wine 9.6 brings advanced AVX support, Direct2D effects, RSA OAEP padding in BCrypt, and bug fixes. Here's more on that!