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If I told you that all content and software you need to build the metaverse is already available and completely free, would you do it? Hold that thought, and let's take a step back and explain the metaverse.

A team of researchers at the Institute of Computer Science and Random Systems has built a non-software-based virus detection system using a Raspberry Pi, an H-field probe and an oscilloscope to detect electromagnetic wave signatures of multiple types of viruses. The team presented its system and test results at last month's ACM Machinery's Annual Computer Security Applications Conference and published a paper describing their system on ACM's Research Article page.

For people who were using desktop flavours of Unix in the 1990s the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) was a familiar, often appreciated experience. While CDE has generally been viewed as technology that has been left to rot on the trash heap of history, efforts in recent years have attempted to resurrect the classic desktop environment. CDE now runs on a number of Linux distributions and BSD flavours. We begin this week with a look at CDE and how to get it running on Debian.

Security fix for CVE-2020-16156

Python has long been one of the most popular programming languages, but that doesn't mean there's nothing new to learn. This list of Opensource.com's most-read articles about Python is an excellent place to start.

Apache Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL distributed database management system. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Apache Cassandra on AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux 8 OS.

Containers are an important part of modern computing, and as the infrastructure around containers evolves, new and better tools have started to surface. It used to be that you could run containers with just LXC, and then Docker gained popularity, and things started getting more complex. Eventually, we got the container management system we all deserved with Podman, a daemonless container engine that makes containers and pods easy to build, run, and manage.

Have you ever signed up for a contest to win a big screen TV or a vacation to an exotic location? Or have you joined a big retailer loyalty program so you can save money? If you answered yes to either of these questions you may be exchanging your name, home address, email address, phone number and sometimes even your birthdate to companies who are building your profile with the information you freely provide.

Varnish cache software does not support SSL/TLS by default. You need additional software to enable SSL/TLS support on Varnish. In this article, you will learn how to set up Varnish SSL Termination with the Nginx web server.

Ubuntu Touch OTA-21, the latest version of the Linux-based OS, delivers a fix for problems with the set-up and synchronization of Google accounts, first encountered by users more than two years ago. Now, however, users should be able to sync their Google calendar and contacts without any issues.

The Linux kernel is at the heart of countless devices and operating systems, including Android phones and tablets, Chromebooks, desktop Linux distributions, and much more. New versions are usually released every few months, and now version 5.16 is available to try out.

Mozilla and Linux Mint have signed a partnership that will see the Linux distribution dump its customisation of the web browser, in favour of rolling out the defaults chosen by Mozilla.

Two popular open-source packages were recently sabotaged with mischievous commits, creating confusion among those using the software and exacerbating concerns about the fragility of the open-source software supply chain.

Year after year, Linux Mint remains the best Linux desktop for both beginners and experienced users.

So, you decided to get rid of Windows and switch to Linux because you have strong beliefs about free and open source software, eh? Well done! That is quite the noble action, and you should be proud that you are following your morals. You could have chosen a Chromebook but you didn't, as you didn't want to support Google. Fair enough...

Tomcat is an open-source web server for Java-based applications. It is used for deploying Java Servlet and JSP applications. We will install Tomcat 10 along with the Nginx server to act as a reverse proxy and protect it using SSL.

Spigot is a modified Minecraft server software based on CraftBukkit. It provides additional performance optimizations, configuration options and features while maintaining compatibility with all existing plugins and mods.

Back on Christmas Eve I noted how the Linux 5.16 performance was looking real good for AMD APUs as a performance improvement not widely noted to that point with significant uplift over Linux 5.15 stable. The good news is Linux 5.16 is set to debut as stable today and the benchmark results with AMD APU graphics is looking very promising after carrying out tests on additional available systems.

File Transfer Protocol or FTP is a very old and one of the most well-known network protocols. It is not secure compared to SFTP or SCP these days but is still the first choice of many users for transferring files between a server and a client.

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