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The Linux kernel stack is a tempting target for attack. This is because the kernel needs to keep track of where it is. If a function gets called, which then calls another, which then calls another, the kernel needs to remember the order they were all called, so that each function can return to the function that called it. To do that, the kernel keeps a "stack" of values representing the history of its current context.

Say hello to Plasma 5.16, a the newest iteration of KDE's desktop environment, chock-a-block with new features and improvements.

The KDE Project released today the KDE Plasma 5.16 desktop environment, a major release that adds a plethora of new features and enhancements, along with many improvements to make your Plasma experience more enjoyable and reliable.

In only two years, the Linux kernel will be 30 years old. Think about that! Where were you in 1991? Were you even born? I was 13! Between 1991 and 1993 a few "proper" Linux distributions were created, and at least three of them—Slackware, Debian, and Red Hat–provided the backbone the Linux movement was built on. read more

Bash case statements can be used to replace multi-level if… else statement. You can use the case statement to match one variable against several values. The bash case statement is similar to switch statement in C programming but bash switch statement does not go ahead one it’s found.

If your Windows partition is BitLocker-encrypted, it's difficult to access it in Linux. Here's how you can mount a Bitlocker-encrypted partition in Linux.

Find Linux system details, such as CPU, Kernel, Memory, Processes and a lot more using Inxi utility.

There are two very simple ways to create a Python virtual environment on Debian 10. They're very similar and offer nearly the same benefits. As an added bonus, you won't need to install anything outside of the default Debian repositories to use them.

With security becoming increasingly important in today’s modern world of information theft and privacy concerns, keeping your server safe and secure has almost become a necessity.

2DayGeek: This article helps admin to lock or unlock user accounts in multiple ways in Linux.

Now is an era where smartphones are a necessity for everyone. And some developers make an application project, which can run Linux distributions on an Android device. Here are some applications that can run Linux distributions on Android without the root device!.

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools and other algorithmic systems are increasingly impacting social, political, and economic structures around us. Simultaneously, and as part of this impact, these systems are increasingly used to inform—or directly make—decisions for policymakers and other institutional leaders. read more

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a collection of compilers and libraries for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Ada, Go, and D, programming languages. Many open source projects including the GNU tools and the Linux kernel are compiled with GCC.

Deepin is an elegant and easy to use desktop environment that optimizes your desktop depending upon your system hardware. In this article, we will learn how to install Deepin desktop environment on Ubuntu OS.

A remote NVMe block device exported via an NVMe over Fabrics network using TCP.

Neofetch is a simple, yet useful command line system information utility written in Bash. It is used to display your Linux system information in Terminal.

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure the Varnish HTTP accelerator as a reverse proxy for an Apache web server. Varnish is a proxy server focused on HTTP caching. It's designed as an HTTP accelerator and can act as a reverse proxy for your web server.

Graviton is a free & open source, cross-platform code editor in development. Check out the features of this promising application.

Markdown is a lightweight markup language that is useful for adding formatting while still maintaining readability when viewing as plain text. Markdown (and Markdown derivatives) are used extensively as the priumary form of markup of documents on services like GitHub and pagure. By design, Markdown is easily created and edited in a text editor, however, […]

MySQL/MariaDB is an opensource database management software, which is very famous, user friendly and widely used for data storage. This will allow the user to create a database, database user, grant different permission based on their requirements and you can access it anywhere. If you have forgotten your MySQL user password, if you would like to change a password for a user, you can reset it by following the steps in this article.