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in Unix and Linux, there are many security built-in features. One such feature is related to files and who should be allowed to manipulate them. Since everything is a file in Unix and Linux, a potential security threat can arise if incorrect file permissions are assigned to classified files, be it a directory, a device or a file

As a system administrator, you are probably monitoring the disk space on your system all the time. When browsing directories on your server, you might have come across directories with a lot of files in them. Sometimes, you may want to know how many files are sitting in a given directory, or in many different directories. In other words, you want to count the number of files that are stored in a directory on your system.

Gentoo-based Porteus Kiosk, a portable, small and secure locked down GNU/Linux distribution designed to deploy a kiosk software on public access computers, has been updated to version 5.0.

Recently, the latest GIMP 2.10.14 version was released and available now to install in Ubuntu. In this article, we’ll show you how to install the latest GIMP on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

2DayGeek: Multiple ways to view/read archived file contents on Linux.

How to use Nano Editor in Linux operating systems like Ubuntu or Debian or CentOS. Nano is one of the easiest command line text editor with syntax highlighting, multiple buffers, search and more.

In this guide, you will install a LEMP stack on a Fedora 31 based server. LEMP is an acronym for Linux, )Nginx server, MySQL (we will be using MariaDB), and PHP. We will also install PHPMyAdmin, Redis, and Opcache.

The popular SystemRescueCd bootable Linux system rescue disk has been updated to version 6.1, a major release that migrates to a newer kernel and adds initial WireGuard support.

Ubuntu 20.04 is making a major change to its default software management tool, Ubuntu Software. The GNOME Software-based utility will be pre-seeded as a Snap app in the install image, rather than as an apt package.

Budgets can be intimidating for beginners. It can feel overwhelming to think about money, much less about how to keep track of it. But it's important to know where your money is coming and going. In this article, I'll step through a sample budget by explaining the logic behind important money decisions as well as the formulas you need to automate the process. Fortunately, LibreOffice makes it easy for anyone to keep their yearly budget in check, even the math-averse.

There’s lots of fun in the terminal. How about a classic iconic tile-matching puzzle video game? Step forward tetris, a terminal interface for Tetris with the main file coded in a mere 333 lines of Haskell.

Avalue’s fanless. 10.1- and 15.6-inch “ARC” panel PCs run Linux or Win 10 on an Apollo Lake SoC and offer WXGA capacitive touchscreens, SATA and mSATA storage, IP65, shock/vibration, and -10 to 50°C ruggedization.

The Linux From Scratch (LFS) 9.1 and Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) 9.1 books that help you build your own GNU/Linux distribution from scratch have been released with support for the latest technologies.

ffsend is a fully featured CLI client for Firefox Send. This article explains how to securely share files from commandline with ffsend on Linux.

Dive deeper into the chroot command and learn how to isolate specific services and specific users.

This article shows you how to enable or disable the automatic login on a Debian 10 system.

The development team behind KaOS, a KDE-focused, desktop-oriented independent GNU/Linux distribution, released today KaOS 2020.02 as February 2020’s live ISO snapshot with all the latest software updates and technologies, as well as new features.

Docker is a platform that combines applications and its dependencies in the form of packages, called container. We can run multiple containers on a single Operating System. This tutorial explains, how to install docker on ec2 instance.

Support for Python 2 should have stopped at the beginning of 2020. However, it has become clear that the last major 2.7.x release will be in April 2020. After that, all development will cease for Python 2. This means there will be no security updates. This article shows you how to migrate your code to Python 3 and also lists a number of the advantages to using Python 3.

In this series, we’ll cover how to install Apache, generate a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate, install, and secure MySQL and install PHP 7.