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What is Git? Git is the most commonly used Distributed Version Control System nowadays. Now the question that comes in your mind is ” What is Distributed Version Control System?”. In this tutorial for beginners (Part I), we will have a basic understanding of Git.

The ability to connect devices without physical access to them, also makes it hard to control who has that access. In this tutorial, we will go through various methods of gaining access to protected wireless networks, which will give you the needed know-how that will help you to set up your wireless environment as secure as possible. Due to the open nature of Linux, there are loads of ready made Linux distributions out there, whose sole purpose is penetration testing, and among them there are a few specialized in wireless field.

The Debian Project published today a new security bulletin to inform users about a Sudo vulnerability that affects the Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” operating system series.

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop sharing system that allows you to use your keyboard and mouse to remotely control another computer. This article covers the steps to install and configure a VNC server on CentOS 8. We’ll also show you how to securely connect to the VNC server through an SSH tunnel.

Smart websites should be fine – if you're being scummy, beware Next week Google is scheduled to release Chrome 80 to its stable channel, and says only "a very modest amount of breakage" of websites is expected.…

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look ProtonVPN apps going open, Microsoft's code analysis tool, Mozilla Thunderbird's new home, and more!

ProtonVPN apps go open source

People wanting to use the internet securely and privately do the deed using a Virtual Private Network (VPN). But which VPNs can you really trust? The company behind the popular ProtonVPN service made a big move to gain that trust by releasing the source code for all its apps.

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Ryan "Icculus" Gordon, a developer who has ported tons of games to Linux has done it again. Descent 3, has been re-ported and upgraded for Linux (and macOS).

The Linux kernel 5.5.1 point release is now available to download from the kernel.org website, marking the recently released Linux 5.5 kernel series as “stable” and therefore ready for mass deployments.

Let us learn to launch a Linux Virtual Machine on AWS. AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a leading Cloud Service Provider that allows you to create a Virtual Machine in their Infrastructure. However it costs ,though some free-tier is also available. You can make your account in AWS for free and can use free-tier facilities as per their terms and conditions. You can create your free account by using below link.

https://aws.amazon.com/free

From all the compression methods available, Zip is probably one of the most popular ones.

Released in 1989 by Philip Katz, Zip is widely used by system administrators in order to reduce the size of bulky files and directories on your system.

In this tutorial, we are going to see how you can easily zip folders and directories on Linux using the zip command.

While working on the Linux terminal, you may want to save the terminal output to a file. Here are 4 ways you can save terminal output to a file in Linux.

This guide explains how to manually add messages to Linux system log files using logger command to test a log server.

In this article, you will learn how to install and remove deb packages in Ubuntu. Deb packages are files which have the extension .deb much like .exe in windows. Once you click on a .deb file, it will launch an installation procedure of the corresponding application.

Nvidia announced that it plans to retire some of their legacy Linux graphics drivers at the end of 2022, and will no longer provide further updates to some some very old GPU drivers.

Fdisk is used to manipulate the disk partitions and its types like GPT, MBR, Sun, SGI, and BSD partitions. Fdisk is available as part of the Linux utils commands .We will be exploring some of the many usages of Fdisk in this article.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to install WordPress with Nginx on a Debian 10 VPS. WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems known all over the world. It is an open-source CMS platform based on PHP and MySQL.

If you’re curious about Tor browser, then you already know how important your privacy and anonymity online can be. And yes, Tor browser is a great tool that can help keep you safe. But there’s a lot of confusion about its pros and cons, and especially, about how it relates to VPNs

Lightmeter promises to significantly improve private email server performance.

Once a router incident is resolved, it is time to collate and summarize the work that was done so that you and the team can gain valuable lessons ahead of the next incident. If you are in a regulated industry, this step is especially crucial because there are legal requirements to always have proof of what was done, when, and by whom.

Work on the Linux Mint 20 and Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 4 operating system releases, as well as the Cinnamon 4.6 desktop environment kicks off over at the Linux Mint headquarters.