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The Manjaro ARM team released today Manjaro ARM 21.02 as a major update to this official ARM port of the Manjaro Linux distribution for embedded and ARM devices.

Quite a few applications were updated recently, and this article covers the changes in these new releases. There's also a brand-new GNOME Shell extension for multi-touch gestures on X11. Read on to find out more!

In 2021, there are more reasons why people love Linux than ever before. In this series, I'll share 21 different reasons to use Linux. Here are four open source tools for turning any device into a Linux server. Sometimes I detect a certain mystique around the idea of a server. Many people, should they have an image in their mind at all, think servers must be big, heavy, rack-mounted machines, carefully maintained by an overly deliberate sysadmin and a group of magical tinker gnomes. Other people envision servers as vaporous clouds that somehow power the internet.

KDE’s Plasma Mobile UI for mobile devices got a lot of improvements and many app updates in February 2021, as the Plasma Mobile team shared their work during the past month.

These are the 4 best distros for Linux for 2021.

The Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 3 mobil workstation is now available to buy with the option to have it pre-installed with the Fedora Linux operating system.

In August 2020, Ansible issued its first release since the developers split the core functionality from the vast majority of its modules and plugins. A few basic Ansible modules remain part of core Ansible—modules for templating configuration files, managing services, and installing packages. All the other modules and plugins found their homes in dedicated Ansible collections. read more

Ever wanted to get notified when a long-running process / command has finished, not only on your desktop but also on your phone? Noti can do that.

There are tons of system monitoring applications for Linux. Here’s one that looks like the Task Manager of Windows.

It’s March, and a new Arch Linux ISO release was generated today for those who want to install this lightweight and flexible GNU/Linux distribution on their PCs, powered by Linux 5.11.

In this guide, we are going to learn how to manipulate and access Clipboard contents using Xclip and Xsel programs in Linux.

My wife and I moved into a new home in October 2020. As soon as it started getting cold, we realized some shortcomings of the home's older heating system (including one heating zone that was always on). We had Nest thermostats in our previous home, and the current setup was not nearly as convenient. There are multiple thermostats in our house, and some had programmed heating schedules, others had different schedules, some had none at all. read more

GVM also called "Greenbone Vulnerability Management" is an open-source vulnerability scanning and management software that provides a set of network vulnerability tests to find security holes in systems and applications.

Fail2Ban is a daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors. Fail2Ban is free and open source software.

Tech already used to verify university degrees, will soon be compulsory at the border Singapore has proposed a blockchain-based document verification system developed by its GovTech agency to provide proof of recent negative COVID-19 tests, and hopes it becomes used to offer proof of vaccination status around the world.…

CrowdSec is a free & open-source security automation tool leveraging local IP behavior detection & a community-powered IP reputation system.

The Vivaldi browser takes tabs to the next level, literally. The first browser to introduce a second level in the tab bar for managing tab groups: Two-Level Tab

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Creating RPM package files can be both as easy or complicated as you desire. If you're needing to create an RPM package from a tarball (.tar.gz) that a vendor sent you, this tutorial will be beneficial for you. In this tutorial, I will describe a step-by-step procedure for building an RPM package. The procedure includes creating the required directory structure, configuring a .spec file required for the rpmbuild process, and building and installing the RPM package. An additional step is added for those who may need to create more RPM packages in the future via a skeleton file.

Devs told if they really, really, need more time for merges they can have it Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has revealed that inclement weather in the USA meant he recently endured six electricity-free days in his Portland, Oregon, home during which he was unable to tend to the kernel. As a result he therefore pondered adding an extra week to the merge window for version 5.12 of the Linux kernel.…