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Package Manager is software which allows a user in case of installation of new software, up-gradation of system, or updating any specific software and such sorts of things. In case of Linux based systems wherein one software has lots of dependencies which are required to be present on system for a complete installation of that software, such software’s like package manager become a much needed tool on every system.

This article explains how to enable hibernation using systemd on Ubuntu when using a swap file (which is default for Ubuntu at least since version 18.04).

The cybersecurity company Red Code Labs has created an open source tool called easyWSL, which can be used to convert virtually any Docker image of a Linux distro to boot with WSL.

The MX Linux devs inform 9to5Linux today about the general availability for public testing of the beta release of the upcoming MX Linux 21 KDE Plasma edition distribution.

This guide teaches you all possible ways to set or change hostname in Debian 11 bullseye system from commandline.

Fail2ban is an intrusion prevention software framework that protects computer servers from primarily brute-force attacks, banning bad user agents, banning URL scanners, and much more. Fail2ban achieves this by reading access/error logs of your server or web applications. Fail2ban is coded in the python programming language.

The guide will give a rundown on installing Fail2ban on Rocky Linux 8 and some basic setup and tips.

Brave is a free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. based on the Chromium web browser. Brave is a privacy-focused Internet web browser, which distinguishes itself from other browsers by automatically blocking online advertisements and website trackers in its default settings. Brave has claimed its browser puts less strain on your computer’s performance than Google Chrome, regardless of how much you ask of it. Even with multiple tabs open at once, Brave uses less memory than Google Chrome-like, up to 66% less.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Brave Browser on Debian 11.

Terminal commands usually have options or switches, which you can use to modify how the command does what it does. Options are included in the POSIX specification for command-line interfaces. read more

The GNOME Project promoted today the upcoming GNOME 41 desktop environment to the beta channel for public testing ahead of the final release next month on September 22nd.

This happened when I finished upgrading Ubuntu 20.04. On the list of updates, there is an update of Mesa to the version provided in the Ubuntu repositories. However, after the upgrade, All games running on Wine and Proton can't open properly. When opening game with Wine via terminal, there is information: X Error of failed request: GLXBadFBConfig. So, the problem is that all games can't run on Wine and Proton.

On on August 14th, 2021 the Debian project has finally released a stable version of Debian 11 Bullseye after over 2 years of development. This step-by-step tutorial is going to show you how to safely upgrade Debian 10 Buster to Debian 11 Bullseye from command line.

Should 'run like a dream' when everything's done, says dev A member of the Asahi Linux team has shown the GNOME desktop running on the Apple M1 chip, reporting that it is "not great, but usable."…

qBittorent is an open-source and freely available peer-to-peer bit torrent client. This article shows you how to install qBittorrent on an Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop.

In this tutorial, we’ll go through how to activate, and deactivate network interfaces within Ubuntu using several techniques. All instructions were run on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the most recent Ubuntu release.

Debian 11, codename "Bullseye" has been released on 14th August 2021. It is a stable release and is supported for the next 5 years. In this article, I will show you how to upgrade from Debian 10 to the new Debian 11 in a few easy steps.

Starting from version 1.0.36, Ventoy bootable creation utility comes with a Web-based user interface. Here is how to easily create bootable USB drive with Ventoy WebUI in Linux.

You may know that OpenStack can use Ceph as back-end storage, but do you know how it works?

The Linux operating system environment is famed for numerous OS-based attributes. One of them is the Linux home directory. It is responsible for all user profiles in the system and enables the system users to create and store files or access already existing/pre-defined system tools and resources.

Linus Torvalds also has fun medical advice about not whacking yourself with sharp objects. Version 5.14 of the Linux kernel seems set to debut next week, after a very calm development process.…

The forty-seventh installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 22nd, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.