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9to5Linux was informed today by Patrick d’Emmabuntüs about the general available for public testing of the second alpha release of the upcoming Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 4 distribution.

You can significantly increase your productivity and understanding of your operating system by learning a few basic shell commands. These commands work in Bash, the most common shell on Linux and MacOS. However, alternative shells are mostly compatible with Bash, so they should work everywhere!

One of the most common tasks when writing Bash scripts or working on the Linux command line is reading and writing files. Learn how to write text to a file in Bash using the redirection operators and tee command.

A lightweight open-source RSS reader for desktop Linux with all the essential features like offline reading, labels etc.

In this Linux quick tip we take a look at shells. How to find what shell you are currently using, which shells are available on your system, and how to change your default and current shells.

The fourteenth installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here, for the week ending on January 3rd, and the first for 2021, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things that have happened in the Linux world.

Last week, we had a problem with our System through which I could not share my screen remotely from my network computer. Then we check the port status, and the port was closed.In this guide, We will show you how to check the port status in Linux and the method to close the unwanted port.

Now is a great time to take up a new hobby. How about digital art? Instead of painting on canvas or paper, digital art software allows you to paint and draw directly onto a computer, which has a number of amazing advantages.

In the last article, we have guided you on how to Install WSL2 with Kali Linux on Windows 10, and we have received immense requests for the GUI Installation guide.

So, Without taking any further delay, let start to Install GUI for Kali Linux on WSL2.

Prerequisite

As a system administrator, you probably already know how important it is to encrypt your disks.

If your laptop were to be stolen, even a novice hacker would be able to extract the information contained on the disks.

All it takes is a simple USB stick with a LiveCD on it and everything would be stolen.

Luckily for you, there are ways for you to prevent this from happening : by encrypting data stored on your disks.

SSL certificates used to cost and still do. But you can actually get them for free via various organizations. One such organization is LetsEncrypt. LetsEncrypt provides free SSL certificates that are recognized by all browsers. These certificates are totally free of charge but the installation is a little complicated for people who are new to this. Anyways, We have another website called sslforfree. This website provides an easy interface to get an SSL certificate from LetsEncrypt.

I am a long-time C++ developer, and for more than 10 years, my Integrated Development Environment (IDE) of choice has been Code:: B locks. Code::Blocks is a completely free and open source IDE licensed under version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL). In this article, I will show you how to set up a C++ development environment on Pop!_OS 20.10 by installing the latest version of Code::Blocks, version 20.03, which was released on March 29, 2020.

Here's this week's roundup series, curated for you from the Linux and open-source world on application updates, new releases, distribution updates, major news, and upcoming highlights. Have a look.

This guide shows how to set up conky on a Raspberry PI to display useful system information on the desktop. It includes details about how to install conky, get it to run at startup, use transparency, adjust the positioning and configure the information that is displayed

All Things Open, a technology conference held in October every year, is always a wonderful learning experience. For 2020, the conference shifted to an online format, which had its ups and downs. The chance encounters with acquaintances in the hallways and having lunch with friends were noticeably absent, but the learning experience was as good as always. Honestly, in some ways, it was better because everyone got a front-row seat, and there were no standing-room-only talks.

BleachBit, the open source system cleaner, has been updated to version 4.2, a major update that introduces support for latest Ubuntu and Fedora Linux releases, as well as many other improvements.

Chattr (Change Attribute) is a Linux command-line utility that sets and unset certain attributes in the file and directory to provide a level of security.

Linux Mint 20 is the winner of our award for best Linux distribution in 2020. Come see why we've chosen Linux Mint.

Firefox Proton – is the name of the project which Mozilla is working on right now. The project Proton brings significant UI changes and some in-progress mockups are available. A bug is created in Bugzilla to track the progress of the work.

No matter, If you are a security professional or pursuing cybersecurity you heard about Linux, we require some of the tools which are support only on the Windows Platform. We have the alternative for Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, but not up to the mark.

This guidepost will show you how to install the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) on Windows 10 with the Kali Linux.

At present WSL has two version WSL1, and WSL2.