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The MX Linux 19.4 distribution is now available for download as the fourth maintenance update to the latest MX Linux 19 operating system series based on Debian GNU/Linux 10 “Buster.”

This article is Part 7 of the LFCA series, here in this part, you will acquaint yourself with the general system administration commands to manage software packages in the Linux system.

Net-filter as we all know it’s a firewall in Linux. Firewalld is a dynamic daemon to manage firewalls with support for network zones. In the earlier version, RHEL & CentOS 6 we have been using iptables as a daemon for packet filtering framework. In RHEL/CentOS 7/8 and Fedora iptables interface is being replaced by firewalld.

PHP is one of the most popular server scripting languages used for creating dynamic pages. Many popular CMS is written in PHP including, WordPress, Laravel, Magento, and many more. The PHP 7.4 version was officially released on November 28th, 2019 with a number of new features. It has also few incompatibilities so you should take care before upgrading from the previous version. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PHP7.4 with Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04 server.

The Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) operating system is now available for public beta testing ahead of the final release later this month on April 22nd, 2021.

I recently started writing a game where you build words using letter tiles. To create the game, I needed to know the frequency of letters across regular words in the English language, so I could present a useful set of letter tiles. Letter frequency is discussed in various places, including on Wikipedia, but I wanted to calculate the letter frequency myself.

Laravel is an open-source PHP web framework. It was first released in June 2011. With each new release, Laravel is making it easier to implement complicated features without wasting too much time.

Valve released today Proton 6.3-1 as the latest version of their compatibility tool for Steam Play to help you run Microsoft Windows games on your Linux-based operating system.

Main power of tcpdump packet sniffing tool comes from its flexible packet filtering rules and versatile protocol dissector. As you may know, only the sky is the limit when it comes to packet-level monitoring with tcpdump. This post provides a comprehensive tcpdump cheat sheet with detailed examples.

In the 21st century, we tend to take data storage for granted. We have lots of it, it's relatively affordable, and there are many different types of storage available. No matter how much cloud storage space you're given for free, there's nothing quite like having a physical hard drive for your really important (or really big, when you live on a slow network) data. However, few hard drives are sold right off the shelf, ready to use—in an ideal configuration, at least. read more

This article explains how to enable hardware acceleration in Chromium browser running on Raspberry Pi OS.

Linux Lite developer Jerry Bezencon announced today the release of Linux Lite 5.4, a modest update to this lightweight distro based on Ubuntu and using the Xfce desktop environment.

Search giant insists it's necessary, iTitan didn't have anything to say Android and iOS phones transmit telemetry back to Google and Apple, even when users have chosen not to send analytics data.…

Mosh, which stands for Mobile Shell is a command-line application which is used for connecting to the server from a client computer, over the Internet. It can be used as SSH and contains more feature than Secure Shell.

In this edition of our open source news roundup, IBM's Call for Code aims to solve climate change, the Linux Foundation launches a new signing service, and more. read more

The hidden cost of multi-cloud, and how full open source reduces lock-in The X.Org Foundation has successfully completed a migration from Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to Packet, which it reckoned "should save us around $30 per day."…

gImageReader is a free and open-source PDF reader with the ability to extract text from images and PDFs. It is built as a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to Tesseract-OCR, an open-source OCR engine for recognizing texts and patterns in documents and images using Artificial Intelligence.

A high-level overview of TLS/SSL and the OpenSSL tool, creating private keys and CSRs, and an introduction to the Internet PKI.

The pipewire promise is one of easy, plug-and-play configuration of all your audio devices. No more worrying about whether your application supports jack, PulseAudio or both. Now you should be able to just run your application, and sound will magically appear from your speakers. Just like that. Last week I decided it was time to check out this fabulous new invention, and so I set about making it work for me. Here’s a preliminary tour of what I found out:

The Document Foundation released today LibreOffice 7.1.2 as the second point release for its LibreOffice 7.1 open-source and cross-platform office suite series.