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The developers of the privacy and security-focused Tails anonymous Linux OS have put out a call for testing for the new Tor Connection wizard that will be implemented in the upcoming Tails 4.19 release.

In the previous topic of our LFCA series, we gave an introduction to Cloud computing, the different types and Clouds, and cloud services and walked you through some of the benefits associated with Cloud computing.

The UMN wants to make peace with the Linux kernel developer community after an annoying Linux code security research blunder.

With the release of Ubuntu 21.04 “Hirsute Hippo” hitting the streets last week, the time has come for the Ubuntu devs to focus on the next major release of their popular GNU/Linux distribution, Ubuntu 21.10.

This brief guide will walk you through the steps to configure and enable SSH for normal user as well as root user on FreeBSD.

Forlinx’s sandwich-style OKMX8MM-C SBC and OKMX8MQ-C SBC run Linux on the i.MX8M Mini and i.MX8M Quad, respectively. Common features include GbE, mini-PCIe, MIPI-DSI/CSI, and extensive audio I/O. Baoding City, China based Forlinx manufactures a variety of Arm/Linux compute modules, which it often supports with carrier boards to create sandwich-style SBCs. The company does not announce […]

Pleroma is an open-source federated social networking platform, compatible with Mastodon and other ActivityPub platforms. This guide will show you how to create your own Pleroma instance by installing it on an Ubuntu 20.04 based server.

Exploring and validating data from an environment is a common practice for preventing service disruptions. You can choose to run the process periodically or on-demand, and the data you're checking can come from different sources: telemetry, command outputs, etc. read more

Fedora 34 desktop spins are here. With the release of the core Fedora 34 operating system, the official desktop flavors are also available for download. We take a look at what's new in this guide while giving you a sneak peek of the major desktops.

If you work with different operating systems, it's handy to be able to share files between them. This article explains how to set up file access between Linux (Fedora 33) and Windows 10 using Samba and mount.cifs. read more

MusE, the open-source and free digital audio workstation (DAW) and audio sequencer software featuring support for both audio and MIDI, has been updated to version 4.0, a major release that introduces a new UI and many cool changes.

This week’s blog looks at configuring the HP EliteDesk 800 G2 to use hardware acceleration when watching videos in Firefox. Hardware video acceleration lets the GPU decode/encode video, offloading the CPU and saving power. Linux distributions, by default, don’t enable hardware acceleration because it can cause issues on specific hardware.

Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. If you want to update to Fedora 34 on your Silverblue system, this article tells you how. It not only shows you […]

LibreOffice is the most powerful, free, and open-source office productivity software suite, which is used by millions of users across the world due to its clean and easy-to-use interface with feature-packed tools that assist you to unleash your creativity and increase your productiveness.

Zellij is a new terminal workspace and multiplexer (like tmux and screen) written in Rust, available for macOS and Linux

The FreeBSD Team is recently announced the availability of FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE. This guide explains how to upgrade to FreeBSD 13 from FreeBSD 12.

When you develop complex Bash scripts and start putting various scripts into a folder, where one script interacts with another by, for example, starting it, it quickly becomes necessary to ensure we know the path the script was started from, so we can start the other scripts with a fully qualified pathname.

Programming languages and frameworks continuously evolve to help developers who want to develop and deploy applications with even faster speeds, better performance, and lower footprint. Engineers push themselves to develop the "next big thing" to satisfy developers' demands for faster deployments. read more

Learn about the latest features in Fedora Workstation, including GNOME 40, PipeWire, and much more!

ZDNet has obtained a copy of the Linux Foundation's letter to the University of Minnesota laying out what happened with the bad Linux kernel patches 'research project' and demanding that 'all information necessary to identify all proposals of known-vulnerable code from any U of MN experiment'.