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It’s that time of the year again, when Canonical kicks off the development cycle of the next major Ubuntu Linux release, in this case I’m talking about Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri), and now daily builds are available to download.

This absolute beginner's guide explains the steps required to install deb (*.deb) files in Ubuntu. This applies to all Ubuntu-based Linux distributions such as Linux Mint, elementary OS, etc.

This article explains how to install GNOME 40 on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) for testing purposes.

How to Secure WordPress Installation with Bedrock on Google Cloud Platform. Bedrock is a WordPress boilerplate with a different improved directory structure and easier configuration.

CrowdSec is an open-source & collaborative security solution built to secure Internet-exposed Linux services, servers, containers, or virtual machines with a server-side agent. It is a modernized version of Fail2ban which was a great source of inspiration to the project founders. In this article we’ll describe how to deploy CrowdSec in a multi-server setup with one server sharing signal.

Virtualbox Snapshots is a point-in-time copy that allows us to save the state of the machine and can restore the machine state whenever needed using these snapshots.

The upcoming major version of the elementary Linux operating system - elementary OS 6 Beta code-named "Odin" is now available for public download.

The Solus GNOME edition has been updated today to the GNOME 40 desktop environment, so here’s a first look at it on the popular distribution if you want to use the latest GNOME release on Solus.

Here in this guide, we try to give you a quick model on how to migrate to Fedora from the Ubuntu desktop.

Wallys’ “DR8072A” router board features a 2.2GHz, quad -A53 Qualcomm IPQ8072A SoC equipped with dual-band, 4×4 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) for 8x streams at up to 2475 Mbps plus 4x GbE, 2x 2.5GbE, 2x USB 3.0, and mini-PCIe. Wallys (or Wally’s) Communications manufactures router boards for Qualcomm’s growing roster of quad -A53 networking SoCs featuring 802.11b/g/n/ax […]

In this brief tutorial, we will see how to install multimedia codecs in Fedora 34 from RPM Fusion software repository.

Antmicro unveiled an open source, RPi CM4-compatible “ARVSOM” module that runs Linux on the RISC-V based StarFive 71×0 SoC. The ARVSOM can plug into Antmicro’s new Scalenode carrier in place of the CM4 for clustering projects. RISC-V software developer Antmicro has launched its first embedded Linux driven RISC-V product. Its ARVSOM compute module uses the […]

The April 2021 issue of my exclusive Xfce’s apps update roundup continues with new releases of Mousepad, Xfdashboard, Xfce Settings, and more.

Laravel is a PHP web application framework that is intended for the development of web applications following the model–view–controller (MVC) architectural pattern. It has an expressive, elegant syntax and provides tools needed for large, robust applications. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Laravel on Ubuntu 18.04.

Xilinx has launched a “Kria K26 SOM” that runs Linux on its Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, plus a $199 “Kria KV260 Vision AI” kit with GbE, HDMI, DP, PMOD, CSI, 2x IAS, and 4x USB 3.0. Xilinx is supporting the products with a new edge AI app store. For years, third party vendors have been developing […]

In Linux, file permissions, attributes, and ownership control the access level that the system processes and users have to files. This ensures that only authorized users and processes can access specific files and directories.

Linux for Starters offers a gentle introduction to Linux for newcomers. Let’s kick off this series with the very basics.

This article is a guide on how to register, identify and join freenode channels from Matrix clients using the Matrix IRC bridge.

In the words of Dan Kaminsky, the legendary DNS hacker, "the Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society." For the Internet to work, computers must be able to find one another on the most complex network of all: the World Wide Web. This was the problem posed to government workers and academic IT staff a few decades ago, and it's their solutions that we use today. read more

On Kickstarter: a $20 “USB RTC for Raspberry Pi” Real-Time Clock add-on that plugs into a Pi’s USB port with a USB-to-UART/I2C converter to enable accurate timestamps. A start-up led by Amrit Singh has successfully launched a Real-Time Clock add-on for the Raspberry Pi to record the passing of time and provide timestamps. The $14 […]