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Entering the passphrase to decrypt the disk at boot can become quite tedious. On modern systems a secure hardware chip called "TPM" (Trusted Platform Module) can store a secret to automatically decrypt your LUKS partitions.

ChatGPT Wrapper is an unofficial open source command-line interface and Python API for interacting with ChatGPT.

Somebody should make a movie of this story, with Red Hat as the damsel who finds her power, and Oracle cast as the volatile leading man.

Shell Genie is a new command line tool that can be used to ask in plain English how to perform various tasks, and it gives you the shell command you need. To generate the commands, it uses OpenAI's GPT-3 or Free Genie, a free to use backend provided by the Shell Genie developer.

At some point you may want to export a manpage to a file. Using ‘man’ options, you can convert a manual page to PDF, plain text or GROFF, among other formats.

Zeek is a free, open-source, and worlds leading security monitoring tool used as a network intrusion detection system and network traffic analyzer. This post will show you how to install the Zeek network security tool on Ubuntu 22.04.

DokuWiki is an open-source wiki application written in PHP programming language. It is mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. All data is stored in plain text; hence no database server is required.

The Linux Mint developers shared today some details on the next major release of their Ubuntu-based distribution, Linux Mint 21.2, which is slated for release this summer with new features and improvements.

First testing images of the upcoming GNOME 44 release are now available. Here’s a quick look at the new features.

PyRadio, a command line Internet radio player for Linux, Windows and macOS, has been updated to version 0.9.0 (stable) a couple of days ago, receiving new features such as support for Radio Browser (search, list and play https://www.radio-browser.info radio stations), remote control server, and more.

Databases are essential for many IT processes. Their performance and reliability depends on many factors and it makes sense to use a dedicated tool that helps you to stay on top of things. Monitoring your database with an external tool helps you identify performance issues proactively, but there are many factors to consider. With the wrong approach, you run the risk of missing valuable information and also can waste a lot of time configuring your database monitoring. In this tutorial, I will give a quick guide on how to monitor Oracle Database with Checkmk, a universal monitoring tool for all kinds of IT assets.

This tutorial will explain how to install ionCube Loader on a Debian 11 server. IonCube is a PHP extension that can decode secured encrypted PHP files at runtime.

Linux hardware vendor System76 shared today more details on the work they are doing for the upcoming Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment for their Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux distribution.

Not complete yet, but getting closer to welcoming Mac migrants and systemd scorners. After almost a year, version 0.8 of the helloSystem is here: an easy-to-use graphical distribution based on FreeBSD 13.1 aiming to offer a different way forward for people looking to leave Apple's macOS – or contemporary Linux.…

The Digi ConnectCore MP1 is an industrial embedded System-on-Module  platform which integrates the STM32MP157C microprocessor and a 3D GPU (Vivante – OpenGL ES) 2.0. This SoM offers up to 176x GPIOs ports and security features such as TrustZone, tamper pins, cryptographic processors, etc.  The datasheet specifies the Vivante 3D GPU has a performance up to […]

elementary OS Founder and CEO Danielle Foré announced today the general availability for download of the long-anticipated elementary OS 7 “Horus” distribution based on the latest Ubuntu LTS and packed with many new features and improvements.

The AWS open-source database commitment Advertorial Each year, AWS cooks up something appealing for its AWS database customers at its re:Invent conference. This year is no exception. The company rolled out four new features for its Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) designed to make life easier for its managed database customers.…

Tutorial on how to use the Linux Killall command

OpenSnitch is a Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall - a security-focused app well-known to macOS users. A discussion that began in 2018 about adopting OpenSnitch in Debian repositories will probably find a resolution in Debian 12.

The Open Source Initiative is planning on making a few changes to how they do things. They think they’ve got it figured out, but first they want to know what you think.