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In the world of system administration, effective log management is crucial for troubleshooting, security monitoring, and ensuring system stability. Logs provide valuable insights into system activities, errors, and security incidents.

Codename Goose is an AI agent built to automate deployment, debugging complex tasks independently.

FastAPI is a web framework based on Python for creating API services. It's a modern, fast, high-performance framework supporting asynchronous operations.

Assembling a Network-Attached Storage unit can be a fun project, regardless of whether you repurpose old hardware or purchase new components.

If you were expecting Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS to drop tomorrow, I come bearing some bad news: the release has been delayed by a week.

SUSE/openSUSE has a long history with the AppArmor Linux security module going back to the Novell days and when AppArmor was originally known as SubDomain. OpenSUSE/SUSE and Ubuntu Linux have been big proponents of AppArmor for Linux security but now moving forward on new installations of openSUSE Tumbleweed it will be defaulting to Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux).

Systemd is a powerful and highly versatile init system for Linux distros. It can run programs, manage system resources, and even control the state of your computer. In this article, I’ll demonstrate how you can use Systemd to control your apps by creating a custom service unit in Ubuntu.

Those making use of the GNOME Web "Epiphany" web browser with the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release will be able to enjoy playing more popular web videos thanks to a packaging change.

Finding yourself annoyed at those ‘window is ready’ notifications which pop-up when you open some apps in GNOME Shell on Ubuntu?

Did you know that it’s possible to require two-factor authentication (2FA) to log into user accounts on any Ubuntu system? Follow along and I’ll show you how you can add this extra layer of security to your Ubuntu account in just a few minutes.

Elasticsearch is a powerful, open-source search and analytics engine designed for handling large-scale data. It is commonly used in log analysis, full-text search, and real-time analytics. This tutorial will guide you through installing and configuring Elasticsearch on Ubuntu/Debian.

Starting from WSL version 2.4.8, we can install Ubuntu on WSL from a tar file, without using the Microsoft Store on Windows.

This blog post will explain everything about Linux processes, such as how to check and manage them easily. In Linux, a “process” is any active instance of a program. Many threads execute the process, and there are different process models.

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) user? If so, you will be pleased to hear that Ubuntu is now available in Microsoft’s new tar-based distro format — no need to use the sluggish Microsoft Store.

For those wondering whether Debian 13 would see the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop packages given the upcoming Debian 13 "Trixie" development freezes, it looks like this updated GNOME release will be squeezed in.

Merged last year for the Linux 6.12 kernel was sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler possibilities by allowing schedulers to be implemented as eBPF code and dynamically loaded into the kernel. This allows for rapidly developing new schedulers as well as exploring other new possibilities around more intelligent kernel scheduling decisions. Meta, Google, Canonical (Ubuntu), and others have been big proponents of sched_ext and NVIDIA is also increasingly vocalizing their support for these extensible scheduler opportunities...

I think it’s safe to say systemd won the competition to become the definitive successor so sysvinit on Linux, but Canonical’s Upstart made a valiant effort, too.

Ubuntu Mate 24.10 is a desktop operating system that helps ease new users into the world of Linux with a fairly traditional UI that can be easily updated with built-in features.

Debian-based Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Debian itself, rely on robust package management systems to install, update, and remove software efficiently. One of the most critical aspects of package management is handling dependencies—ensuring that all required libraries and packages are present for an application to function correctly.

Do you use the official Spotify DEB on Ubuntu (or an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution like Linux Mint)? If so, you’ll be used to receiving updates to the Spotify Linux client direct from the official Spotify APT repo, right alongside all your other DEB-based software.