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There are a number of dangerous commands that can be executed to crash a Linux system. You may find a nefarious user executing these commands on a system you manage, or someone may send you a seemingly harmless command, hoping that you will run it and crash your computer.

There are many Linux distros out there, but GoboLinux is a different kind of beast. It is an alternative Linux distribution that redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy.

The UBports Foundation announced today a call for testing for the next OTA (Over-the-Air) software update for their Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system for Ubuntu Phone devices, OTA-21.

Distrobox is a tool that allows you to create and manage container-based development environments without root privileges. Distrobox can use either podman or docker to create containers using the Linux distribution of your choice. The created container will be tightly integrated with the host, allowing sharing of the HOME directory of the user, external storage, external USB devices, graphical apps (X11/Wayland), and audio.

Gamestonk Terminal provides a modern Python-based integrated environment for financial investment research. It aims to provide a comprehensive tool to help make better investment decisions. This terminal-based tool is free and open source software written in Python.

Mattermost is a self-hosted and open-source online chat service designed to be used as an internal chat platform for companies and organizations.

This year, Opensource.com ran several great articles focusing on open source in business. These articles show the power of open source in business as tools, platforms, or integration points. Let's review some of the top open source business stories from 2021.

Want to play around with the NFT thing while helping Linux and open source projects? The Linux Tycoon will show you how.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install WordPress with Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP 8.1 on AlmaLinux

With the continuously growing set of features and functionality provided by systemd, this year saw the project hitting record growth in terms of commit activity that easily surpassed prior years. Surprisingly, Lennart Poettering dropped from his spot as the one responsible for the most commits each year.

This post explains a shell script that creates a formatted ODT without involving a GUI word processor. The script uses LibreOffice Writer to convert an HTML file to an ODT on the command line. The HTML doesn't have to be up-to-date, either, or use CSS for styling.

If you start using computers with Windows, you are likely to use the term folder. But when you switch to Linux, you’ll find that folders are often termed as directory. This may confuse some new Linux users. Should you call it folder or directory? Is there even a difference? Here’s the thing. You can call it folder if you want or directory if you like. It won’t make a difference. But if you wonder why a folder is called directory in Linux, here is some explanation.

If you are looking for a database for analyzing time series data, the PostgreSQL TimescaleDB extension might be the best option. In this article we will learn how to install and configure TimescaleDB with PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 20.04.

This year we learned a lot about our community as we embraced our new work-from-home lives. We also met some amazing folks who are leveraging Linux and open source software in their organizations.

AMD's official Vulkan driver team is ending out the year by pushing out AMDVLK 2021.Q4.3 as their official open-source Radeon Vulkan driver implementation for Linux systems. This alternative to the Mesa RADV driver finally has fixed up its very poor performance for Vulkan under Wayland.

Career opportunities are plentiful for sysadmins, even as we continue to cope with and recover from the pandemic. The "Great Resignation" and local skills shortages (especially as some borders remain closed) are affecting companies. We sysadmins need to make the most of the mounting career growth opportunities as IT organizations work around their needs for skills while the world slowly opens up.

One great thing about Linux and the open source community is that as soon as a vulnerability is detected, developers are hard at work releasing tools to mitigate the problem. Such is the case with the Log4j vulnerability.

Avidemux 2.8 open-source, free, and cross-platform video editor software has been released today as a major update that brings exciting new features and many improvements.

Yes you may like the Apple hardware, but have you considered installing Linux on it regardless?

Vorta is a graphical frontend for BorgBackup application. This guide explains how to backup files and folders with Vorta in Linux.