Lets breakdown Linux Distributions and figure out which one is good at what.
I have a gaming mouse for playing FF14 but I wondered if I can fit my tiling window manager onto it and have it be remotely usable, turns out it's a terrible idea but it works.
1:06 Linux Innards 42:46 Check This Out 44:16 Announcements & Outro
In our Innards section, we talk about how much security is enough.
 Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application created in 2004 and subsequently acquired by the web portal organisation, Yahoo! Inc. Flickr has a large user base that rely on this storage site to host and share their 6 billion images with family and friends. The application is particularly popular among the blogging community, but faces stiff competition from the likes of Picasa, Facebook, and others. There is a free version of Flickr which allows limited space. If users need more bandwidth, the ability to show HD video, archiving, and ad-free browsing, they can upgrade to a relatively inexpensive Pro account.
Whilst there have been no official Flickr tools released for Linux, the developers have made the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) available to software developers. The APIs allow Flickr to be integrated into other Linux software.
 A web application firewall (WAF) is a type of application firewall that lets you see and analyze HTTP traffic to and from a web application. It has the objective of preventing attacks that seek to deny service and steal data. It gives the administrator direct control over the requests and the responses passing through the system without needing to modify backend code. A WAF differs from a standard firewall by protecting a specific web application or set of web applications. And it does this without actually touching web applications.
Unprotected web applications are the easiest entry point for criminals and vulnerable to a number of attack types. Once a web application security vulnerability is discovered, it must be promptly fixed. Virtual patching using a WAF or patching the web application code directly are two solutions. Preventing attacks in application code can be difficult and may need painstaking maintenance, patching and monitoring at multiple layers of the application topology. And web application attacks are the main cause of data breaches. About 75% of all attacks are focused at the web application level. Most websites suffer dozens of attacks every day and some popular sites suffer, on average, a thousand attacks per hour. WAFs are deployed to add an external security layer; this improves a system’s security. They detect and prevent attacks before they reach web applications.
Like announced in my previous post, I released mastersearch, "Searching the web from the CLI".
Opera is a freeware, cross-platform web browser developed by Opera Software and operates as a Chromium-based browser. Opera offers a clean, modern web browser that is an alternative to the other major players in the Browser race. Its famous Opera Turbo mode and its renowned battery saving mode are the best amongst all known web browsers by quite a margin, with a built-in VPN and much more.
In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Opera Browser on Fedora 36 Linux workstation desktop with optional branches stable, beta, or the nightly development version using the command line terminal with tips on maintaining and removing the browsers if required.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Seafile on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Seafile is an open-source, self-hosted file sync that shares the solution with high performance and reliability. Seafile enables you to put files on your own server and allow others and your different devices to sync and access it. Seafile is written in C and Python programming language and provides similar features like Dropbox, mega.co.nz, and others.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Seafile open-source file-hosting and cloud storage system on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Terraform on AlmaLinux 8. For those of you who didn’t know, Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code software tool that enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. Terraform is built by Hashicorp and released under Mozilla Public License. It supports public, private as well as hybrid cloud, as of now Terraform supports 145 providers, which includes popular providers like AWS, Azure cloud, GCP, Oracle cloud, and many others.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Terraform on an AlmaLinux 8. You can follow the same instructions for CentOS and Rocky Linux.
To install a free LetsEncrypt SSL certificate on bitnami WordPress installation, do the following...
The date command is a powerful tool provided by the GNU Core Utilities package. The formatting options are incredibly useful when writing scripts. If you are unfamiliar with this tool read our primer The Linux Date Command - Display, Format & Set the Date on Linux. In this Linux quick tip we are going to use the TZ environmental variable to specify the timezone with the Linux date command. I use this often when I am working with servers that are geographically distant from me. For example, when I need a script to send me an email when an action completes. Having the date time sent to me using my timezone stops me from needing to do time conversions. It is also handy if you simply want to display the date and time in a different time zone.
We aren't going to go into how the whole DNS protocol works. However, it is important to know that all the name and IP address mappings are cached locally. This is done for speed and efficiency. So the next time you go to putorius.net, the DNS resolver can read it's local cache instead of doing a lookup over the internet. Sometimes it is necessary to flush the DNS cache of your system. Maybe the IP address of the system you are trying to reach has changed? If so, you need to flush your local DNS cache or you will not be able to reach it.
The date command is a powerful tool provided by the GNU Core Utilities package. The formatting options are incredibly useful when writing scripts. If you are unfamiliar with this tool read our primer The Linux Date Command - Display, Format & Set the Date on Linux. In this Linux quick tip we are going to use the TZ environmental variable to specify the timezone with the Linux date command. I use this often when I am working with servers that are geographically distant from me. For example, when I need a script to send me an email when an action completes. Having the date time sent to me using my timezone stops me from needing to do time conversions. It is also handy if you simply want to display the date and time in a different time zone.
This simple tutorial shows how to hide user list and/or enable touchpad tap clicking in login screen of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
GNOME, the default desktop environment, has some hidden keys to configure the login screen options. However, you need gdm (Gnome Display Manager) user privilege who handles the default login.
After following this tutorial, Ubuntu will no longer display usernames in login screen. Instead, you need to manually type user-name and then password to login.
Want to open folder or edit file as administrator (aka root in Linux)? Here’s how to do the trick by adding menu option in Ubuntu 22.04 file manager.
The ‘Files’ (aka nautilus) has an extension called nautilus-admin to do administrative operations. With it, you may right-click on folder and select “Open as Administrator“, or right-click on file and select “Edit as Administrator“.
Don’t like MS Windows, it however does not support running an app as root.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure TOTP two-factor authentication on Apache Guacamole. Time-based One-time Password, TOTP, is a kind of multi-factor authentication which adds an extra layer of authentication on top of the usual username/password based authentications. This improves the security of your accounts.
In this guide, we are learn how to install Wireshark on Rocky Linux. Wireshark is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to configure Guacamole MySQL database authentication. Guacamole supports various authentication mechanisms including database authentication via MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server databases.
So how can you can enable and configure Guacamole MySQL database authentication?
This short tutorial shows you how to fix RDP server closed/refused connection: Security negotiation failed (wrong security type?) error while connecting to Windows systems using Apache Guacamole.
osu!octave is a free and open source rhythm game designed to play osu!standard beatmaps, optimized for best performance and playability on PlayStation Vita.
Its core (as in, the very base of hit objects logic and some parts of architecture) is based on osu-ds, an unfinished osu! port to Nintendo DS made by Echo in 2009 and released under the BSD-2 license.
A PlayStation Network bug is causing game licenses to suddenly expire, preventing users from playing games on the PS3 and Vita. First reported for purchased and downloaded versions of Chrono Cross, the bug has also affected games like Chrono Trigger and many others. Evidence points to the phenomenon being a network glitch. [Thanks, Prima Games!]
Unreal Engine 5 is the latest version of Epic Games' popular game development software and has been available for use since the start of 2021. A year later, more studios have begun to adopt the software as the foundation for projects that can leverage its versatile power to create detailed games.
KDE Frameworks 5.93 comes with lots of improvements for your favorite KDE apps, including multi-cursor support for Kate and other KTextEditor-based apps. Users are given three ways to create multiple cursors, including Alt+Click in different places, Alt+Ctrl+up/down on lines above or below the current one, and Alt+Shift+I after selecting multiple lines of text.
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.93.0.
KDE Frameworks are 83 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the KDE Frameworks release announcement.
This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.
The co-founders of the Elementary OS project have split, leaving many open questions about one of the most popular Linux distributions (distro).
Danielle Foré and Cassidy James Blaede co-founded the Elementary OS project in an effort to help further Linux on the desktop. Elementary is based on Ubuntu LTS (Long-Term Support) and is often compared to macOS, providing a similar default look and feel. The distro has won its fair share of praise, and currently sits at number 11 on DistroWatch.com.
Unfortunately, there appears to be trouble in paradise, with the two co-founders parting ways, according to Foss Force.
Elementary founder Cassidy James Blaede revealed that he’s left the company, opening questions about the future of its Linux distribution. It appears that he was basically forced out of Elementary by co-owner Dani Foré.
“Over the last decade, I’ve worked to help build elementary into what it is today: a world-class operating system lead by a team who is involved in and oftentimes driving the direction of the greater open source desktop space,” Blaede writes in his goodbye post. “In 2011 I founded elementary, LLC. so we could have a legal entity under which to do business, sign agreements, etc. I owned and ran the company for seven years, bearing the entirety of the legal responsibility and handling much of the administration and logistics.”
Earlier today I posted about an improvement to the Setup menu:
https://bkhome.org/news/202204/remove-duplicate-pupcontrol-entries-in-setup-menu.html
Now for something that I have wanted to do for a very long time...
In ye olden days, Puppy had an entry "Wizard Wizard" in the Setup menu, which was a frontend to the other "wizards".
This idea of a "wizard" was inherited from Windows 95:
http://toastytech.com/guis/win952.html
Quoting:
To simplify some of the more complicated operations in Windows, Microsoft added "wizards".
A "wizard" is usually a dialog box that walks you through each specific step needed to complete the operation.
Typically a wizard presents a few discrete choices at a time across several pages you can navigate with a "Back" and "Next" button. The last page will usually have a "Finish" button that completes the task using your selected choices. I do think that the term "wizard" has had its day, and intend to phase it out of the Setup menu. Firstly, though, in Easy 3.4.5 these two entries circled in red, both run PupControl:
Based on Debian GNU/Linux 11.3, MX Linux 21.1 brings back the disk-manager utility to the ISO images, adds various improvements to the installer, updates many of the pre-installed packages, and introduces the mx-samba-config utility for those who want to configure Samba and CIFS shares in a desktop-agnostic way.
On top of that, this release bumps the kernel version on the AHS (Advanced Hardware Support) image, which features the Xfce desktop environment by default, to Linux 5.16.
The Gentoo project has announced a new LiveGUI image in a post on its official blog.
The Gentoo Linux distribution is known for giving users as much manual control over what's installed on the system, to the point where users are encouraged to compile most of Gentoo's software from source to tailor its performance to the user's CPU architecture.
However, the LiveGUI version is intended to allow prospective users to test drive a full desktop system by extracting the image to a USB stick or optical media before committing to the installation process.
True to the distribution's fast-moving nature, Gentoo plans to offer a new LiveGUI version every week.
While the Gentoo project supports multiple architectures, the ISO image is for x86-64 systems. It weighs in at 4.8 GB and can be obtained from Gentoo's download page.
This is a pretty substantial change that might break some applications that assume the default “pi” user exists.
A new update to Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian) offers several improvements over previous releases, though one of these “improvements” may be a bit controversial. On the one hand, setup is more convenient and the Pi is more secure. But it’s time to say goodbye to the default user.
From here on out, Raspberry Pi OS won’t come with a default user called “pi.” Additionally, the operating system won’t give you the default “raspberry” password. That means the Raspberry Pi setup wizard is now unskippable, as you must enter custom login credentials. (That said, the default user won’t disappear if you update your Pi, and the new setup wizard won’t stop you from using the “pi” username or “raspberry” password.)
This change is probably overdue. Default usernames and passwords present a security risk for remote access devices, and of course, the Pi is a popular home server solution. (You can run the sudo rename-user command to change the default credentials on an older Pi.)
 The AHPI72992S by Alfa Network is a Raspberry Pi HAT that guarantees long distance wireless communication for low power due to its WiFi HaLow(IEEE 802.11ah) standard protocol.
The expansion board is built around the NRC7292 SoC that is IEEE 802.11ah compliant and Qorvo’s RFFM6901 single chip front end module (FEM). Due to its design, the AHPI72992S module is optimized to operate in the sub 1GHz license-exempt band.
The term is believed to have been created in 1999 independently by the OpenBSD developers and the Sun Microsystems marketing team.
As a developer, you might have had to use the terminal quite often, especially if your organization doesn’t use Microsoft products. Having knowledge of the most important UNIX commands can improve your life as a developer.
Here's a recipe for happiness. Don't get overexcited by the latest "C is not a language" kerfuffle.
Proper coders have known since its inception that C is as much a glorified library of assembler macros as anything else. Don't sweat it. That business with operating systems being infected by their old C genes, crippling all the new cool Rusts and Swifts? So what? If your code is limited by its OS interactions, you should probably go write a kernel.
There is one place, and one place only, where you should invest your emotional and intellectual energies. Compilers. They saved the world once, and they're about to do it again.
For most young code-slingers, compilers are slightly mystical interfaces to the data divinities. If things are good, the completion messages flow down the terminal window like a high priest's blessings on the faithful. If you've done bad, the compiler heaps fire and brimstone on you, and you must repent. When judgement day comes, your executable is your reward.
At $work, one of my colleagues who is not in a developer role has started to get into writing code more and more, and I am mentoring him. He's about to work on a productive ticket with Moose for the first time, so I gave him a little reading list, mostly involving selected parts of the documentation as well as Ricardo Signes' excellent talk Moose is Perl.
But then I thought I must have read lots of great blog posts about Moose on the Perl Advent Calendar over the years. I tried to find a few, but had some trouble identifying them easily. So I wrote a quick scraper. Here are all articles that mention Moose since 2010 (where the format of the website changed). Most of them are about Moose or one of the numerous MooseX modules.
While making software free seems counterintuitive to the core of running a profitable business, it’s exactly what Moodle founder Martin Dougiamas did when he launched his course management system in 2001.
Since then, the Perth-based edtech has grown to accommodate more than 311 million users and operates in approximately two-thirds of universities worldwide.
Speaking with Business News Australia Dougiamas explains how keeping aspects of Moodle free is a “sensible” approach towards software development in a field like education, where teamwork is paramount.
“To me, it’s very natural. It comes out of academic tradition [where] you learn, share and work together - it's very collaborative. It's not about competition,” he says.
“It's a very healthy ecosystem for open source. Most of the lower layers of the internet and operating systems like UNIX are all built with this model because it works.
“The dotcoms like Google, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook completely operate on open-source software.”
iTWire asked Russell Coker, a senior developer with the Debian GNU/Linux project and a veteran sysadmin to evaluate the site.
Earlier this week, I shared information on what Chrome OS 100 brings to Chromebooks. Aside from new features, such as the improved Launcher, there’s a huge behind-the-scenes addition. The original three core principles of Speed, Simplicity, and Security in Chrome OS are now four. After more than a decade, Stability is a primary function of Chrome OS.
A trio of clean-energy players are enabling the nation's largest competitive wholesale electricity market to reduce load by expanding demand-response to residential customers' thermostats.
We have new neighbors from Ukraine. The owners of the flat dropped a letter into everyone's mailbox to inform us and to ask that maybe we could share our wlan access with the family (mother, 2 children and mother-in-law).
From an email at work I learned that Telekom is giving away free SIM cards to refugees from Ukraine with an unlimited data plan. They only require some Ukrainian ID as all SIM cards have to be registered in Germany. So I just wrote an email to the landlord informing him about this as I really just would not like to share our internet access even with the guest option in the router. He did not know about the free cards and wrote me back that they would visit a Telekom shop the next day.
Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou – who was famously held in Canada and is the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei – has quietly been named as one of three people who share the role as chair of the Chinese company's board.
Huawei rotatesits CEO and chair every six months, appointing the new leaders from a panel of three who each take turns in the top jobs before reverting to be mere senior advisors.
While critics of the system may question the resulting continuity and accountability, founder Ren Zhengfai justifies the unique approach by saying the rotating and acting CEOs "sought harmony in diversity," helping the company "adapt quickly to changes in the environment."
"They make decisions collectively, which avoids corporate rigidity caused by any particular individual being too obstinate and also avoids the uncertainties caused by unexpected risks to company operations," said Ren. In 2018, the co-CEO role was downgraded to "rotating deputy chairperson."
China's Securities Regulatory Commission has opened a consultation on revised regulations aimed at avoiding trouble for local tech companies that list on US stock markets.
In recent weeks the NASDAQ stock exchange warned Chinese tech companies Baidu and Weibo – and more besides – that they face suspension from the bourse because they don't allow the US government to see audits of their finances.
Washington wants to see those audits under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (HFCAA) – a law that requires some companies that issue securities in the US to disclose how many of their shares are owned by governments, if governments exercise control over the company, and whether any officials or regulations are connected to the Chinese Communist Party.
Some of the most important inventors you may not have heard of, are: Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Herman Hollerith, Semyon Korsakov, Alan Turing; where to start? The truth is; Hollerith was the only one that succeeded financially. How do I define this? Well, several of these people were born into privilege or married into or inherited significant wealth; and their inventiveness did not expand their wealth significantly. So, the definition of success is: that they grew their own wealth within their inventions.
French voters go the polls this Sunday in the presidential election first round, with Macron’s old rival Marine Le Pen likely to advance with him.
It makes plenty of sense to work multiple days a week, throughout the whole day, if you're a farmer who has to respect the life cycles of his work animals, and doesn't have giant spotlights with which to light up his whole field as he tills.
dimension.sh is nearly 2 years old. I initially started dimension as I wanted to rekindle a love of an old 'pubnix' I used to be a member of back when I was in college, it ended up being a small community where I met a few good friends to which i'm still in contact with twenty years later. I happened to come across the the tilde community one day and was reminded of this fun part of my life.
For command line help, man pages are thorough. The information you want is probably in there somewhere. But I'd prefer a few examples to get me started. The tldr project does exactly that. So I translated their pages to gemtext, and put up a list of them.
I got to know the gemini protocol by reading Drew DeVault's blog. In a post from last year he argues that gemini is supposed to be a read-only protocol, that the INPUT response code is only for searching, and that the SENSITIVE INPUT code should be removed. Forms, file uploads, commenting systems, and other kind of interactive use cases simply fall out of gemini's scope according to him.
Russia's communications scold is fed up with all the misinformation online, at least with regard to Google and its YouTube subsidiary.
Roskomnadzor, the agency charged with monitoring and controlling media in Russia, introduced "coercive measures" that ban Google from promoting services deemed to be distributing "fake" – as defined by the Russian government – content.
Affected services, according to Russian business publication Kommersant, include Google Search, Google Play, YouTube, YouTube Music, Google Chat and Gmail. The measures also include requiring search engines (e.g. Yandex) that present information about Google services (i.e. link to them) to inform users that Google is violating Russian law.
"YouTube video hosting has become one of the key platforms spreading fakes about the course of a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation," the agency said.
The European Commission (EC) is going ahead with an appeal against a court decision earlier this year to drop a $1.2 billion fine imposed against Intel for anti-competitive behavior.
The case stretches back many years and concerns deals between Intel and some system vendors to favor Intel chips over those from rivals such as AMD.
A spokesperson for the EC confirmed to The Register that it has decided to file an appeal against the General Court judgment of 26 January, which found Intel was no longer required to pay an approximate $1.15 billion fine imposed by the EC for anti-competitive behaviour.
