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You might have heard of VPNs — virtual private networks — at some point, and chalked them up to something only “super techy” people or hackers would ever use. At this point in the evolution of online life, however, VPNs have become more mainstream, and anyone may have good reasons to use one. VPNs are beneficial for added security when you’re connected to a public wifi network, and you might also want to use a VPN at home when you’re online as well. Here are five reasons to consider using a VPN at home.

One of the basic file system administration tasks in Linux involves creating, modifying, and deleting different types of files and directories. Knowing some basic tools and concepts for file deletion comes in handy and can save you time. In this guide you will learn several ways how to quickly and easily delete files and directories in Linux using the command line.

PuTTY is one of the oldest and most popular SSH clients, originally for Windows, but now available on several platforms. It has won corporate support and endorsement, and is prepared and bundled within several third-party repositories. Unfortunately, the 0.74 stable PuTTY release does not safely guard plain-text passwords provided to it via the -pw command line option for the psftp, pscp, and plink utilities as the documentation clearly warns. There is evidence within the source code that the authors are aware of the problem, but the exposure is confirmed on Microsoft Windows, Oracle Linux, and the package prepared by the OpenBSD project.

It's a fact of life. Systems, software, and services fail. Keeping users happy and the pager quiet is always at the front of every sysadmin's mind. Therefore, knowing how to handle service failure quickly, efficiently, and (ideally) automatically is a hallmark of a capable (and well-rested) sysadmin. This article walks you through a few ways systemd can help you mitigate failure in your services.

The fifty-third installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on October 3rd, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Widespread adoption of DevSecOps is inevitable. Security and delivery velocity are unrealistic expectations as part of a waterfall software development life cycle (SDLC). Businesses and government agencies are under constant pressure to deliver new features and functionality to their customers, constituents, and employees.

2DayGeek: This brief guide explains how to repair/reinstall a corrupted bootloader on RHEL 8 and their clones.

Thirty years ago, give or take, Linus Torvalds created Linux. At the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit last week, Torvalds talked with his good friend and VMware VP and chief open-source officer Dirk Hohndel about Linux's history. First things first, they talked about the actual date of Linux's birthday. Hohndel noted that Torvalds "has redefined the birthday of Linux everyone used to use -- August 25 -- and then said, 'well, actually it's September'." Indeed Torvalds and I have talked about this very point before, and you can choose between four dates for Linux's "official" birthday.

The concept of integrating images into videos is not rocket science as it logically takes a series of images to compose a video. Every video you watch; even your favorite YouTube videos are just a series of still images undergoing a very quick image-to-image transition.

Compiling software from source code might sound frightening, especially if you have never done it before. If you are a Linux user and want to try compiling something on your own, you have come to the right place.

The most common distributions are Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, Mint, CentOS, Redhat, ArcLinux and many more. In this guide you going to learn how to identify your Linux OS and the version installed on your machine.

Mozilla pushed today the final release of its Firefox 93 web browser to the main archives for all supported platforms and architectures ahead of the official launch on October 5th, 2021.

In few words, you can think of jQuery as a cross-browser and cross-platform Javascript library that can greatly simplify client-side scripting in HTML pages. On the other hand, Bootstrap can be described as a complete framework that integrates HTML, CSS, and Javascript tools to create mobile-friendly and responsive web pages.

"Browser monoculture" is often bemoaned as a threat to the web. According to Statscounter, which tracks browser use, over 70 per cent of the market is made up of people using Google Chrome or another browser based on the underlying Chromium project.

Computers are great at automating tasks. Doing something quickly over and over again the same way is where computers really shine. However, any system administrator can tell you that some tasks become more difficult when they are spread out over multiple machines. Installing the same software on multiple computers and keeping a fleet of machines up to date can be tedious.

FLB Music is billed as a ‘beautiful cross platform music player’. It’s written in TypeScript and uses Vue.js,

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install or upgrade the Linux kernel 5.14 from the unstable repository along with setting up APT pinning to avoid conflicting updating of existing Debian 11 Bullseye packages.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the October 2021 issue.

A new release of FreeBSD-based helloSystem 0.6.0 is here with important updates and bug fixes. We round up the release in this post.

In the regular monthly updates, Linux Mint team announced that the next Linux Mint 20.3 release is planned for Christmas and will contain some interesting updates.