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While most of our attention here at DistroWatch is focused on changes and releases in the Linux community we also enjoy talking about the various flavours of BSD. As it turns out, some of you are interested in the BSD projects too. This week, in our Questions and Answers column, we clear up some confusion about how projects like FreeBSD (and its cousins in the BSD world) operate.

Garuda Linux, an Arch-based distro, is the one to heed. From simplifying Arch's learning curve to providing a series of different desktop environments, Garuda Linux has it all. This aesthetically pleasing distro is every Linux user's delight, as it's relatively easy to install on your PC.

When you want to grant administrative access to some of your users while controlling and checking what they do on your systems, you use sudo. However, even with sudo, there are quite a few unseen issues—just think about giving out shell access. Recent sudo releases added features that let you see these issues and even control them. For example, you can turn on more detailed and easier-to-process log messages and log each command executed in a shell session.

WonderCMS is a free, open-source, and flat-file content management system written in PHP and jQuery. It is a simple, lightweight, and fast CMS that does not require any database to create a website.

On March 29th you can broaden your open source horizons, sharpen some skills, and maybe even get a free System76 laptop or a Lenovo Chromebook if you’re lucky enough to win a prize.

What is Nim Programming Language? Nim is an open-source, imperative, statically typed compiled programming language. Nim combines the concepts from mature programming languages such as Python, Ada, and Modula.

Why to use Nim?

Juk is the default open source music player for the KDE Plasma Desktop on Linux. Create playlists, use tagging, and play your favorite tunes on Linux.

SFTP, FTPS and SCP are all file transfer protocols, but what is the differnce? Learn the differences between these protocols and some examples of how to use them from the Linux command line.

TrueNAS SCALE is the first release of TrueNAS on Linux. It is Debian-based as opposed to the original which ran on FreeBSD. After 18 months of development and testing effort, TrueNAS SCALE is now released as a newest addition to the TruNASs family of storage software.

Nearly six years after its last release, FreeDOS 1.3 came out at the weekend… in case you're feeling nostalgic for a 1980s enterprise-grade OS. DOS ain't dead. Although the long history of MS-DOS officially ended with version 6.22 in 1994, there have long been multiple other DOS-compatible OSes out there. And unlike all the others, FreeDOS is open source, legal, legitimate, and free to use.

Screen (GNU Screen) is a terminal multiplexer. It allows you to run multiple processes simultaneously from within a single SSH terminal. It means that you can multiplex the terminal into several sessions using this command. In this tutorial, we’ll learn about the screen command in Linux in detail.

Don't throw away your old computers just yet! Install a lightweight Linux distro on them and put them to use.

Atlassian Jira Service Management offers a flexible IT service management (ITSM) solution offering request management, incident management problem management, change management, asset management, configuration management and knowledge management.

Fail2ban is a free and open-source Intrusion Prevention System written in Python. It is used to protect your system against brute-force attacks. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Fail2Ban firewall on Alma Linux 8.

This guide explains what is Whiptail, how to install Whiptail in Linux and how to create GUI dialog boxes in Bash Scripts using Whiptail.

The Arch Linux is not always Linux it can have other kernels, like for example the PacBSD which is the Arch with the kernel of FreeBSD . The Arch Hurd are the Arch packages with the kernel GNU/Hurd and logical with the GNU tools. The Arch Hurd project was founded on an Arch Linux forum thread in January 2010, and after a few weeks of much input, it has progressed to the point where it can boot into a virtual machine.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Sublime Text 4 on AlmaLinux 8 with stable or development options.

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, in partnership with LF Networking and LF Edge, ??today announced the Open Networking & Edge Executive Forum (ONEEF) will take place virtually April 12-14, 2022. The Open Networking & Edge Executive Forum (spring) and Summit (fall) are the industry’s premier open networking and edge computing events focused on end to end solutions powered by open source.

DevOps and DevSecOps require agile documentation practices to deliver quality documentation on time with an iterative software delivery cycle. It's a similar journey to DevOps with a move to automation and a more agile approach to content. If documentation is only now entering your organization's DevOps discussions, it's time to catch your documentation practices up to DevOps.

Slax is not dead! Slax developer and creator Tomas Matejicek announced today the general availability of Slax 11.2, the first release of this minimalist distribution in more than two years.