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Cyberattacks are nothing new. According to the FBI, the first major “attack on the internet” predated even the web — a self-replicating malicious program created by a grad student who shortly apologized with instructions to remove it. While the software didn’t damage or destroy any files, it spread, within 24 hours, to about 6,000 of […]

Pieter Abbeel may not be a name you know, but you've probably heard of his work. This year's ACM Prize in Computing is going toward a machine learning specialist whose work, even if you haven't heard of him, is likely to be familiar.…

Community-supported, Red Hat-compatible distro now available to Microsoft fans. A Windows Subsystem for Linux-friendly version of AlmaLinux has turned up in the Microsoft Store, adding to an impressive array of options for WSL users.…

But if the world were to somehow make a transformational leap towards more global openness, what would actually be required? The conceptual challenge of that is daunting—but a first step might begin simply by articulating some of the unexplored questions that follow from Open's overall vision.

Many open source users love a good Bash alias and are usually happy to show off a particularly robust .bashrc file when given the chance. If you're a frequent user of Git, you might benefit from a few Git aliases mixed in with your other Bash aliases. Alternately, you can create aliases specific to Git with this git config command. This example sets the git co command to git checkout.

SFTP or SSH File Transfer Protocol is a method for securely transferring data between computers. In this guide, you will learn how to set up SFTP Server on a Linux system.

This is my last LinuxGizmos story after nine years as Editor and Chief Writer. But LG lives on. I started at LinuxGizmos shortly after Rick Lehrbaum launched the site in early 2013. In 2018, he sold LinuxGizmos to KCK Media Corp., which has done an admirable job supporting Rick’s tradition of reporting news on embedded […]

The change happened because microservices need to communicate with multiple backend services to improve the load balancing and service resiliency.

GitLab is an open-source DevOps lifecycle tool used to host and manage Git repositories. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install GitLab CE on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

Aaeon’s “Boxer-8254AI” edge AI system combines a Jetson Xavier NX with 8x GbE with PoE/PSE, 2x GbE, 4x USB, HDMI 2.0, CAN, COM, DIO, SATA, mini-PCIe, and M.2 E-key. Aaeon has revealed one of its fanless Boxer computers powered by a Jetson Xavier NX module and featuring 8x Power-over-Ethernet GbE ports for powering cameras and […]

GitLab is a free and open-source DevOps software that comes with multiple tools to develop, secure, and operate software in a single application. In this post, we will explain how to install GitLab CE on Alma Linux 8.

Nothing is quite as vexing as a security hole in a security program. Xiaochen Zou, a graduate student at the University of California, Riverside, went looking for bugs in Linux and found a whopper. This vulnerability, CVE-2022-27666, in IPSec's esp6 (Encapsulating Security Payload) crypto module can be abused for local privilege escalation.

This article explains all that you need to know about KernelCare. But before studying about KernelCare, let’s do a quick recap of the Linux kernel. It’ll help you understand KernelCare better. The Linux kernel is the core part of Linux OS. It resides in memory and prompts the CPU what to do.

Netdata is a free, open-source and real-time server monitoring tool that visualize and monitor real-time data like CPU usage, RAM usage, Load, SWAP usage, Bandwidth usage, Disk usage, etc. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install the Netdata monitoring tool on Alma Linux 8.

Forgive the self-taught Visual Basic programmer, for they know not what they do. Or do they? Who, Me? Thank goodness for code reviews. However things weren't always so squeaky clean as one Register reader discovered while attempting to sort another's sweary source. Welcome to Who, Me?…

ONLYOFFICE Docs is an open-source office suite distributed under GNU AGPL v3.0. It comprises web-based viewers and collaborative editors for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations compatible with OOXML formats. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to make the draw.io service available right in ONLYOFFICE Docs using a plugin.  

The internet can be a dangerous place. Not a week goes by without a cyber attack taking place. Go H*ck Yourself: A Simple Introduction to Cyber Attacks and Defense by Bryson Payne shows you how many basic cyber attacks work, so you can learn to defend against them. Payne teaches how to perform a variety of hacks to show that they are easy to do. 

It was MySQL, with the resource contention, in the database cluster. Code shack GitHub is offering an explanation for a succession of lengthy outages this month - it's the fault of resource contention issues in its primary database cluster during peak loads but more investigation is needed.…

DongshanPI has revealed a “Dongshan Nezha STU Core” board that runs Linux on the RISC-V based Allwinner D1 and offers HDMI, GbE, Type-C, and a GPIO carrier. Meanwhile, Clockwork Pi has launched a D1 option for its DevTerm retro handheld. The Allwinner D1 continues to expand its claim on the low-end Linux RISC-V market. A […]

If you’re in search of open-source web browsers that are lesser-known to you, this article is written for you. This article takes you through 5 amazing open-source web browsers that are readily available for your Linux system. Let’s find out the options to choose from in 2022.