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Learn how to lock user accounts, disable user accounts, and expire user accounts in Linux using a command-line tool or manual method.

Learn how to use the free command to display RAM memory, swap memory consumption, and the total size of the buffer/cache in Linux.

LZ4 1.10 compression algorithm released with multithreading, dramatically improving compression speeds by up to 8 times.

In light of the CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage/disaster that has been wreaking havoc on corporate Windows systems around the world since Friday, systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering pointed out how such a situation on Linux systems could be averted by leveraging systemd's Automatic Boot Assessment functionality.

To provide an insight into the quality of software available, we have compiled a list of 8 free and open source student information systems. Hopefully there will be something of interest for any educational establishment that needs to manage student data.

Zed is a high-performance, “multiplayer”, free and open source code editor written in Rust and developed in the open on GitHub. It was created by the same authors as the Atom text editor, and although it has IDE features, it is very responsive. In this tutorial, we learn how to install Zed on some of the most used Linux distributions.

While WebM is a great format for web video, there may be times when you need to convert WebM to other formats. Let's explore various methods to do so.

Mozilla's Thunderbird team has fixed a 24-year-old feature bug, bringing system tray mail notifications to GNOME and KDE desktop environments for Linux users.

Can we trust the Linux Foundation to look after anything at all? Look what it turned this once-thriving site into.

This detailed guide explains what ExifTool is, how to install ExifTool on Linux, and how to use it to manage image metadata information with practical examples.

Audacity 3.6.1 update fixes critical bugs, including crashes with multichannel audio exports and clip pasting. Here's more on that!

All of the "perf" performance events feature updates were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 6.11 merge window.

Wave Terminal is an AI-native terminal built for seamless workflows. It’s free and open source software.

Oxygen Not Included has a new expansion out with The Frosty Planet Pack, which seems like a chill way to blow through another few hundred hours.

The default firewall on Ubuntu is ufw, which is short for “uncomplicated firewall.” Ufw is a frontend for the typical Linux iptables commands, but it is developed in such a way that basic firewall tasks can be performed without the knowledge of iptables.

It’s a “frankly outdated spaghetti-Western ‘romantic’ presentation of a living and vibrant community as dead and gone in order to build a technology company ‘for the greater good'” is how Adam Recvlohe, Holly Grimm, and Desiree Kane put it in a January 2023 article taking ASF to task.

The 197th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on July 21st, 2024, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Linux variant of a ransomware strain known as Play (aka Balloonfly and PlayCrypt) that's designed to target VMware ESXi environments.

If you’ve tried the Tiling Shell GNOME extension you’ll know how easy it makes it to tile application windows in GNOME Shell, from simple to more complex.

Back in March were a set of patches to the Linux kernel's XZ embedded compression implementation with the project having switched from public domain to the BSD Zero Clause License along with other changes to update that in-tree code.