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Whenever you do a login, logout, or attempt to log in, everything gets recorded on your system, and there is a specific command that you can use to find out who has logged into your Linux system. In this article, you will see a binary file that is responsible for maintaining records and how to read the binary file using the “utmpdump“ utility.

There’s a lot to be seen and to be said about what goes on in Ukraine from a purely technological perspective; at times of war nations are, in general, vastly better off with Free software, not “licensed” proprietary software from some other nation

The seventy-four installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on February 27th, 2022, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Looking for a powerful ARM-based laptop that can run Linux? Here are four of the best options you can try.

If you spent your high school years gazing at TI-80 series calculators but lost track of the device somewhere along the way, then you might sometimes yearn to relive those thrilling years of algebra and calculus. Somebody on the Linux KDE project must have felt that way, too, because one of the KDE Framework libraries, Analitza, provides syntax and widgets to enable you to perform advanced math functions with K apps like the graphing calculator KAlgebra.

The official YouTube client for android is full of ads and other tracking scripts. If you use it, then you will be forced to watch tens of intrusive ads from video to video, and your privacy will be under attack because of Google’s tracking activities.

Is Linux more challenging to use than Windows or macOS? No. You may not have access to all the same apps, but there is a reason Linux has become dominant on supercomputers, servers, and even Mars-bound rovers. Linux is often the best tool for the job, and the same can be true on your laptop. There are multiple areas where Linux is often easier than Windows and macOS.

When I first got started with a Raspberry Pi, I would often use it to tackle some long running scripts - like the continuous monitoring of a video feed, or a small script that gathered data from the web. The problem I faced was how to stay connected to the Pi long enough so that the script wouldn’t terminate.

Sequent Microsystems has gone to Kickstarter to launch an $18 “Beagle-Pi” emulator board that enables HATs for the hard-to-find Raspberry Pi to run on the Cape expansion interface for the more widely available BeagleBone Black.

In general, most programs you’ll ever run on your Linux system will work flawlessly, and your shell will not present any errors at the time of their execution. However, there may be times when you might want to quickly run custom scripts or programs from non-standard directories on your Linux system.

CWP - Control WebPanel recently introduced CWP Secure CentOS Kernel for wide usage on CWP WebHosting Servers. CWP secure kernel when in use provides the highest security possible on the market for the shared hosting, no other control panel has something similar integrated to compare with. It can be only compared with Cloudlinux/CageFS.

This tutorial will take you through updating a server managed by ISPConfig from Debian 10 (buster) to Debian 11 (bullseye). This guide works for both single- and multiserver setups.

OSS is a growing phenomenon, and every journey to open source best practices is unique. At the same time, there’s a whole lot of room to grow some more. Many organizations use Open Source Program Offices to align their open source efforts under a management system and policies designed to create a positive experience for internal developers and external participants to the communities they participate in and contribute.

I love a good game that you can immerse yourself in for hours, but I don't always have the luxury of ignoring daily tasks to disappear into a video game. Still, I do love a fun challenge from time to time, and two of my favourite applications to launch when my computer gets busy doing something that I need to wait on are games from the KDE Games package: KBlocks and Kolf.

This guide explains how to configure the Task Switcher in the KDE Plasma desktop.

I hadn’t heard of DahliaOS until about 20 minutes ago when a tweet talking up the latest development pre-release flew past my eyes. Naturally I was intrigued. DahliaOS has nothing to do with Ubuntu of course and thus no real tangible reason to be featured on this blog. But hey: new Linux distros and desktop environments are interesting, and unless I want to kick the bees nest that is the Firefox deb to Snap transition (the no-more-apt-build package hit Jammy today) I’ve not got much else to talk about. So what is dahliaOS?

CentOS replacement AlmaLinux on Friday released a new ISO for a version of it’s operating system that supports IBM’s open source Power processor.

Intel launched its Alder Lake-P and -U Core CPUs with claims that the P-series is 70 percent faster than Tiger Lake-U, and unveiled some new Xeon chips and an improved OpenVINO. Meanwhile, Intel acquired Linutronix, and there were leaks about an upcoming 1.8nm Lunar Lake CPU.

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation announced today the general availability of the AlmaLinux OS 8.5 distribution for the PowerPC architecture.

Ubuntu has put out the latest point release of its stable version, or the fourth bugfix of 20.04. The main difference will be visible in new installs: a clean install of 20.04.4 – for example on some new hardware – will get kernel version 5.13 from 21.10 "Impish Indri", which came out after 20.04.3 last August. However, if you already have "Focal Fossa" installed and just run a normal update, you'll get 20.04.4.