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Community fork delivers first code for more distro-neutral functionality. The first version of Incus, the community project working on a fork of Canonical's so-called LXD "containervisor," is here.…

But only if you're ready to cozy up in Azure's abode. Microsoft says it plans to keep on supporting Apache Cassandra 3.11 a year past its end-of-life date... just as long as you're running it as an Azure Managed Instance.…

In the boundless ocean of software development, containerization has emerged as the trusty vessel for developers, ensuring smooth sailing even in turbulent waters of system discrepancies and compatibility woes. Among the fleet of containerization tools, Docker shines bright as the beacon of reliability and ease.

Should still work for the foreseeable future, but rely on it at your own risk. Still using Python 3.7? Even Microsoft thinks it is time to move on after the Windows behemoth finally deprecated support for the language in the October 2023 release of its extension for Visual Studio Code.…

Qualys has discovered a nasty security hole, dubbed 'Looney Tunables', in the glibc C library. This means almost all Linux distributions have a bad security problem.

Apache Tomcat is an open-source Java web server and Servlet container used to host web applications written in Java. This tutorial will show you how to install Apache Tomcat on Ubuntu 22.04.

That is not dead which can eternal lie. Iä! Iä! IA16! Version 0.7.0 of ELKS OS, and 0.4.0 of its creator's next baby, Fuzix, are out – if you like your 'nix systems as tiny as can be.…

Suricata is a Network Monitoring tool that examines and processes every packet of internet traffic that flows through your server. It can generate log events, trigger alerts, and drop traffic upon detecting any suspicious activity.

These days you can acquire time series data from multiple sources. In this article we will show you how to use InfluxDB, a popular time-series database dedicated to fast concurrent read/write of critical time-series information. One can argue that using a traditional relational database may not work well with data in a time-series format because […]

It's a great advert for Ubuntu anyway. Windows 10 may be just over a year away from the ax, but its successor, Windows 11, appears to be as unpopular as ever.…

ownCloud is a software solution for creating file-hosting services like Google Drive and DropBox. Follow this guide to learn how to install ownCloud on Debian 12 step-by-step. Learn how to install ownCloud via the command line on the LAMP Stack and secure ownCloud with SSL/TLS certificates from Letsencrypt.

iPadOS-like distro reaches 7.1 and talks to you on installation. The latest release of Elementary OS, version 7.1, is out, based on Ubuntu 22.04.3. We took it for a quick spin.…

The Linux Foundation, BastionZero, and Docker believe OpenPubkey bolsters zero-trust passwordless authentication.

Zeek (formerly Bro) is a free and open-source platform for network security monitoring. It is a powerful passive network traffic analyzer to investigate suspicious or malicious activity. In this guide, I will show you how to install Zeek network Security Monitoring on the Debian 12 server step-by-step.

Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we know the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for human connection, and lets everyone find where they belong — their corners of the internet. We all have an internet story worth sharing. In […]

For more than a decade, Rdiff-backup has been our preferred choice for developing Minarca Data Backup software, an efficient data backup process management solution tailored for system administrators. Integrated into Minarca, Rdiff-backup offers a range of advantages that make it an optimal, robust, and easily accessible solution for managing data backups. In this article, we delve into the technical aspects that set Rdiff-backup apart, making it a go-to choice for data backup requirements.

One version's edgier than the other. Whether you prefer your Cinnamon in Ubuntu or Debian flavor, the Mint developers have something new for you to try.…

OpenMRS is an efficient electronic medical record (EMR) storage and retrieval system released as open-source software. This tutorial will explain how to install OpenMRS on Ubuntu 22.04.

Nobody expects more flexible string parsing Python 3.12, the latest stable release of the Python programming language, was released on Monday, offering developers a handful of new capabilities and the removal of some cruft.…