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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.

Python has a long history, starting around 1991 with its first release in a newsgroup called alt.sources. Since then, we all know how omnipresent the language has become. Last year, Python ranked second in Redmonk’s list of the most popular programming languages. And I can tell you… this year won’t be different. Here’s why!

Fedora Silverblue keeps a record of previous previous, so we can easily downgrade or rollback Fedora Silverblue to previous version in no time. This can be helpful if the new version is unstable and/or not working properly.

A look over some popular topics towards the end of 2020 for Linux and Linux Gaming.

With the BETA release out of the door and some new information, we now have considerable information about the Linux Mint 20.1 new features and release dates. Here is a list of the changes we compiled for you.

In case you have a large number of data provided in a TextFile, and now you need to remove the specific string character from a TextFile. It is not worth reading every line for a single word or character and manually removing the string. If you have a small set of data, you can use this approach, and For a large file, we cannot use this sluggish approach. So, we have to find a way to remove all the strings’ occurrences at once without opening a text file.

Debian-based Septor Linux distribution has been updated today to version 2021, a release that brings up to date core components and applications.

Nmap is one of the most popular free and open-source command-line utility network scannings. Nmap can be used to discover hosts and service use by the system on the same network.

In this article, we take a look back at some of the biggest Linux stories of the year 2020.

I have always been fascinated with the night sky. When I was younger, the only reference materials available were books, and they seemed to depict a sky that looked different from the one I saw from my home.