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Entering the passphrase to decrypt the disk at boot can become quite tedious. On modern systems a secure hardware chip called "TPM" (Trusted Platform Module) can store a secret to automatically decrypt your LUKS partitions.

Zeek is a free, open-source, and worlds leading security monitoring tool used as a network intrusion detection system and network traffic analyzer. This post will show you how to install the Zeek network security tool on Ubuntu 22.04.

Databases are essential for many IT processes. Their performance and reliability depends on many factors and it makes sense to use a dedicated tool that helps you to stay on top of things. Monitoring your database with an external tool helps you identify performance issues proactively, but there are many factors to consider. With the wrong approach, you run the risk of missing valuable information and also can waste a lot of time configuring your database monitoring. In this tutorial, I will give a quick guide on how to monitor Oracle Database with Checkmk, a universal monitoring tool for all kinds of IT assets.

This tutorial will explain how to install ionCube Loader on a Debian 11 server. IonCube is a PHP extension that can decode secured encrypted PHP files at runtime.

Not complete yet, but getting closer to welcoming Mac migrants and systemd scorners. After almost a year, version 0.8 of the helloSystem is here: an easy-to-use graphical distribution based on FreeBSD 13.1 aiming to offer a different way forward for people looking to leave Apple's macOS – or contemporary Linux.…

The Digi ConnectCore MP1 is an industrial embedded System-on-Module  platform which integrates the STM32MP157C microprocessor and a 3D GPU (Vivante – OpenGL ES) 2.0. This SoM offers up to 176x GPIOs ports and security features such as TrustZone, tamper pins, cryptographic processors, etc.  The datasheet specifies the Vivante 3D GPU has a performance up to […]

The AWS open-source database commitment Advertorial Each year, AWS cooks up something appealing for its AWS database customers at its re:Invent conference. This year is no exception. The company rolled out four new features for its Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) designed to make life easier for its managed database customers.…

Discourse is an open-source community discussion platform built using the Ruby language. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Discourse Forum with the Nginx server on a server running Rocky Linux 9.

OpenSearch is a community-driven project by Amazon and a fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana. In this tutorial, you'll deploy OpenSearch - an open-source search, analytics, and visualization suite - to the Debian 11 server.

Variscite launched this month the VAR-SOM-MX93 which implements i.MX 93 System-on-Chip from NXP. The SoM can be configured with up to 2GB LPDDR4/4X, up to 64GB eMMC 5.1. Variscite has also launched a compatible evaluation kit providing access to 2x GbE LAN ports, multiple display ports and other flexible peripherals.  As mentioned earlier, the VAR-SOM-MX93 […]

ClearCube has launched two Mini PC models based on the 12th Gen i5/i7 Intel Cores. The DTi NUC Mini PC series support up to 64GB DDR4-3200 RAM, 2x HDMI 2.1 ports, 2x optional Thunderbolt ports and access to a copper network connection or fiber network connection. These new Mini-PCs from Clearcube are based on the […]

Machdyne revealed today another compact embedded board based on the Lattice ECP5 FPGA which can run on Kakao Linux (partial fork of linux-on-litex-vexriscv). The Kopflos is a headless general-purpose computer equipped with an RJ45 LAN port, a JTAG header and a few USB ports for additional peripherals. The Kopflos Computer implements the Lattice ECP5 FPGA […]

Nothing good – the recent layoffs hit its best and brightest leaders hard Opinion Remember when Google's motto was "Don't be Evil"? I do. Even though Google dumped that phrase from its code of conduct in 2018, many of us still thought Google was a bit better than other companies.…

.NET 7 is now available in Fedora Linux. This article briefly describes what .NET is, some of its recent and interesting features, how to install it, and presents some examples showing how it can be used. .NET 7 .NET is a platform for building cross platform applications. It allows you to write code in C#, […]

Unbound is free and open-source DNS server software that can be used for validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolvers. In this tutorial, you will install Unbound on Ubuntu 22.04 server and set it up as a Local DNS Server with some features enabled, such as DNSSEC, DNS cache, local domain names and sub-domains, and also DNS-over-TLS (DoT).

The TANGO-3010 is a fanless Mini PC based on the Intel Celeron J6412 low-power Quad-core processor. The new product launched by IEI Integration Corp offers 2x displays with 4K support, 2x COM ports, 1x M.2 2280 and upgradable RAM memory. The TANGO-3010 Mini-PC features the following Celeron processor with 10nm process launched in 2021: Celeron-J6412 […]

Neo4j is a graph database used to create data relationships. This tutorial will teach you how to install and configure Neo4j on a Ubuntu 22.04 server.

KeeWeb is an open-source and cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass. This post will explain how to install the KeeWeb password manager on Ubuntu 22.04.

Calls to avoid C/C++ and embrace Rust grow louder. Memory safety, a longstanding concern among serious software developers, has finally met with mainstream stardom.…

Fathom is privacy-focused web analytics that delivers clean and concise data about your websites. This tutorial shows you how to install Fathom Privacy-Focused Website Analytics on a Debian 11 server.