Star Labs is teasing us with a 4K Linux laptop for a few months now, but, after some trial and error, the company finally decided to allow customers to choose between two display options. As such, you can now buy the StarFighter laptop with either a 4K display or a QHD one.
But there’s a catch as the 4K (3840Ãâ2400) display is the default option in the standard offer, but has a 60Hz refresh rate with an 8W power consumption, while the QHD (2560Ãâ1600) option features a 165Hz refresh rate and costs more than the 4K model, yet it has a 3.2W power consumption. The good news is that both of them are true matte displays with a highly requested 16:10 aspect ratio.
This release contains bug fixes to improve robustness.
This release note describes what is different between Istio 1.15.0 and Istio 1.15.1.
We are pleased to announce the release of Istio 1.16!
This is the fourth Istio release of 2022. We would like to thank the entire Istio community for helping to get Istio 1.16.0 published. Special thanks are due to the release managers Daniel Hawton from Solo.io, Ziyang Xiao from Intel, and Tong Li from IBM. As always, our gratitude goes to Test & Release WG lead Eric Van Norman (IBM) for his help and guidance.
These notices describe functionality that will be removed in a future release according to Istio’s deprecation policy. Please consider upgrading your environment to remove the deprecated functionality.
When you upgrade from Istio 1.15.x to Istio 1.16.0, you need to consider the changes on this page. These notes detail the changes which purposefully break backwards compatibility with Istio 1.15.0. The notes also mention changes which preserve backwards compatibility while introducing new behavior. Changes are only included if the new behavior would be unexpected to a user of Istio 1.15.x. Users upgrading from 1.14.x to Istio 1.16.0 should also reference the 1.15 change logs.
Well we have two of the bigger Linux YouTubers talking about Linux going more to the Mainstream audience.
A Quick Overview of Ubuntu 22.10
For the entire life of the ubuntu snap packages they have forced users to do automatic updating but finally Canonical has decided to fix them and make them a little bit more usable
In this video I explain how to record and play back Vim macros. Vim macros are a collection of keystrokes that you can save into registers then play back in Vim.
It is extremely dangerous to use rm like this in Bash because of various reasons but mainly this one
In this video, I am going to show how to install XeroLinux 2022.09
This article will explain how to install and use PhpMyAdmin on Rocky Linux. PhpMyAdmin is the best tool for handling databases like MySQL and MariaDB over the web rather than using them on the command line. Multi-database management can be accomplished with a single software package. With a few clicks, you can create, delete, export, and import databases using a GUI environment. It is a free and open-source application written in PHP that communicates with a remote MySQL server. This tool is commonly used by developers and system administrators to manage databases in both development and production environments, especially among web hosting companies.
Wrike is a popular and beneficial project management program. It helps teams share files, collaborate, manage tasks, and more. If you’re using it regularly, you can increase productivity by learning a few Wrike keyboard shortcuts for faster navigation.
In this tutorial, we will explain ten useful cron commands in Linux with examples.
The cron command is used for scheduling tasks to be executed in a specific period, like a month, day, hour, minute, or even seconds. The cron uses a table of tabs called crontabs which have a list of commands that need to be executed with their times respectively. These cron commands are used by system administrators mostly, to make their work easier and be sure not to forget to execute something during a specific period of their work.
In this tutorial, we are going to use Ubuntu 20.04, but you can choose any Linux distro you want. Let’s get started!
Are you running out of disk space on your Debian or Ubuntu Linux? Do you want to know which installed Debian or Ubuntu packages occupy the most disk space? There are many ways to find out this info. In this quick tip, you will learn about listing apt or apt-get installed packages that occupy the most space using the command-line options.
To find APT packages that occupy the most disk space on Debian/Ubuntu Linux, sort the installed packages by size, and output the largest ones, use the dpigs command.
Drupal is a free and open-source web content management system written in PHP and distributed under GNU General Public License.
Akaunting is an open-source and self-hosted accounting software application for small businesses and freelancers.
AnyDesk is a remote desktop application software that is available for all Linux users.
This tutorial will show you the five most used alias commands in Linux with examples.
Sometimes we need to reference some command using it with a shortcut. These commands with shortcuts defined in Linux are called aliases. Aliases are used to replace long commands in order for the user to avoid spelling errors. Some administrators or regular users are using aliases because they are used to executing some commands with their own Linux language words that have been used over the years.
In this tutorial, we are going to use the latest Ubuntu 22.04 distribution. You can choose any Linux distro you want. Let’s get started!
Django comes with good authentication, which uses a username and password, but sometimes one is unsatisfied with what Django offers. You might want to change the way users login into your system, such as using email and password, here you will have to create a custom user model to gather for your needs.
Monitoring your on-screen activity is extremely easy with ActivityWatch, an open-source time-tracking app for Linux.
It's easy to spend hours sitting in front of a screen without knowing where the time went. You only have 24 hours to spend each day, and you can either choose to spend your time working on important tasks or wasting it on unnecessary activities.
Fortunately, tracking your screen time on Linux to identify activities that might be causing you to lose focus is effortless. Perhaps you want to monitor your kid's activity on the internet and need an effective tool that can do that for you. ActivityWatch is an open-source app that helps you check your screen time on Linux.
Keeping backup regularly on the live server is a very challenging task for a system administrator. It helps the user or an administrator to recover the data in case of system failure and even data loss. For that purpose, various free backup tools are available to maintain the backup of your system regularly. UrBackup is one of the most commonly used client/server backup tools that support various file formats images as well as system file backups. Users can install this tool on both Windows and Linux operating systems. The adaptable feature of the UrBackup tool is that it does not interrupt the current working of a system while the target system is running and creates a backup in a parallel way.
We will learn in this guide how to install the UrBackup server on an Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 20.04 system.
penLiteSpeed is an open-source HTTP server with a similar feature set to Apache, but builds on more recent technologies.
It is the only product in the marketplace which provides an affordable software license that allows commercial use of their product.
OpenLiteSpeed is powered by the extremely fast LiteSpeed Web Server, which excels in both performance and stability – it’s up to 20 times faster than Apache when serving static files.
In this tutorial, you will learn setup NTP client using Chrony on Rocky/Oracle Linux.
Join us tonight at 8PM UTC for our first Kdenlive Café of the year. Besides the usual community feedback, we’ll be sharing news about the fundraiser, 22.12 release and the roadmap for future versions.
Today we also release the 22.12 BETA, please give it a spin and let us know if you encounter any issues.
It’s important to note where the term “stable” comes from when applied to a Linux OS or distro. In short, thousands of variations of Linux OSs cater to users’ specific needs. Some, like Debian, are more basic; others, like Ubuntu and Arch Linux, build off existing ones; while still others, Linux Mint, act as forks-of-forks—derivations of already established OS.
To ensure compliance, we need a Linux distribution that is well-supported and documented by the Linux community. Here are some of the best options available that fulfill these criteria. These distributions are known to be stable, have good repositories, are regularly updated, are user-friendly, and have been around for some time.
The BackBox Team is happy to announce the new major release of BackBox Linux, version 8 codename “Sara”.
As usual, this major release includes many updates. These include new kernel, updated tools and some structural changes with a focus on maintaining stability and compatibility with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
For those of us interested in high-performance, high-throughput or AI/ML, this is a special week. SC22 is finally here and its message of HPC accelerates resonates more than ever.
A key SC22 message is “Leveraging HPC, skilled minds employ innovative technologies to respond to the call – driven by data, simulating possibilities, and unlocking new solutions”. In this blog, I would like to add another component: cost effectiveness measured in terms of efficiency, scalability, elasticity as well as overall sustainability.
This blog article shows how Ampere Computing with its Altra€® family of processors combined with the SUSE software stack can yields a modern, open source, supported environment capable of analyzing the growing volumes of data needed by today’s high-performance environment while doing so in an elastic, scalable and efficient manner.
Last month, the Linux community was rocked by a critical OpenSSL vulnerability. Because of the severity of the vulnerability, Fedora 37 was delayed by its developers. While Fedora users were disappointed by the delay, it was obviously the right move.
At the time, the developers said they were targeting November 15 for the official Fedora 37 release. Well, folks, that date is today and Fedora 37 is here. While this version of the operating system is chock full of changes and improvements (such as the GNOME 43 desktop environment), the most exciting aspect is Raspberry Pi 4 support. Full release notes can be found here.
"As usual, Fedora Workstation features the latest GNOME release. GNOME 43 includes a new device security panel in Settings, providing the user with information about the security of hardware and firmware on the system. Building on the previous release, more core GNOME apps have been ported to the latest version of the GTK toolkit, providing improved performance and a modern look," explains Matthew Miller, Fedora project leader.
The developers of AlmaLinux have released the latest version of the OS, named Stone Smilodon, to the general public.
The newest release of AlmaLinux, version 8.7, is now available to the general public. This release is a 1:1 binary-compatible replacement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 and features plenty of changes and updates.
One of the big changes comes in the ability to build custom images with custom /boot mount point partitions and sizes. As well, the latest release includes important security updates, such as all Network Security Service (NSS) libraries have increased the minimum key size for all RSA operations from 128 to 1023 bits. Other updates include, scap-security-guide is now better aligned with Defence Information Systems Agency technical guides content; a new package, xmlstarlet, which can parse, transform, query, validate, and edit XML files; Ruby 3.1, Mercurial 6.2, and Node.js 18.
On November 15, 2022, we released version 8.7 of the EuroLinux operating system. It is compatible with the latest upstream version. This release focuses on updating containerization solutions and enhancing system security. Among other things, NSS database support for RSA keys below 1023-bit has been removed and the SCAP Security Guide rules have been updated. Popular compiler stacks for C/C++, Go and Rust languages have also been updated.
At the beginning of the article we will describe the technical advantages and new capabilities of the EuroLinux ecosystem. Then we will present the links to the release notes documents along with the jumpstart documentation.
Today I built and pushed the Tor RPM(s) for 0.4.7.11. Please make sure that you upgrade your relays and bridges. I have the updated package for Fedora 37 too (which also released today).
Orange Pi 5, powered by the Rockchip RK3588S, is four times faster than its predecessor, Orange Pi 4 LTS. Shipments begin in December.
Single Board Computers (SBC) have been widely used among Linux users, self-hosting enthusiasts, and home automation hobbyists.
For years, Shenzhen Xunlong Software Co., the company behind Orange Pi devices, has been developing products that compete directly with the popular Raspberry Pi devices.
As expected, they continue to evolve with each new version, with the new Orange Pi 5 offering significant improvements over its predecessor. So, let’s look at what the new device has to provide.
The Star64 is a single-board computer aimed at developers and early adopters who want to get their hands on a system with a RISC-V processor that offers reasonably fast performance. Pine64 first announced the board this summer, and now the company has revealed that it’s on track to go on sale next month.
We’re currently seeing something of a technological blitzkrieg as corporations and engineers attempt to solve the problem of tactility in virtual reality (VR). Modern VR headsets provide quite realistic visual and auditory immersion, but that immersion falls apart when users find themselves unable to physically interact with virtual objects. Developed by a team of National Chengchi University researchers, ELAXO is an Arduino-controlled exoskeleton glove that enables complex force feedback for VR applications.
ELAXO looks unwieldy — it is like an exoskeleton glove made up of 3D-printed struts and joints. In the demonstrated setup, ELAXO mounts to the user’s wrist and has force feedback structures attached to their thumb and first two fingers. Each finger receives four servo motors, four small DC motors, and one larger DC motor. Those motors attach to joints to create on-demand physical resistance to movement.
A couple of months ago, we shared an update on our Cache the World project, covering the ongoing re-write of the Firefox accessibility engine. The project aims to improve Firefox’s overall performance for users of assistive technologies (ATs) like screen readers and to reduce crashes and hangs. It will also make the accessibility engine easier to maintain and simplify adding new features going forward.
In our last post, we provided instructions for enabling the new engine in Firefox Nightly by changing an experimental setting and encouraged adventurous Windows OS users to opt in and try it out. Thanks to your testing and feedback, and further work by the engineering team, the new Firefox accessibility engine is now solid enough that we have enabled it for all Firefox Nightly users, starting with the Nightly build on November 15th (id: 20221115095444 or newer). Unless you’ve changed Firefox’s update settings, it will attempt to automatically update twice per day, but you can perhaps speed that up by manually checking for updates. To do that, navigate to the Firefox menu, then to Help, and then to About Nightly. Alternatively, open the Help menu from the Windows menu bar and choose About Nightly. That will do an update check; if an update is available Firefox will download it. After a restart to finish the update, Firefox will be using the new accessibility engine.
Even people who are very online can use some help navigating the internet – from keeping credit card details safe when online shopping to generating a password when one simply doesn’t have any more passwords in them.
Using Firefox as your main browser helps take care of that. Want to level up? With a Firefox account, you can take advantage of the following features whether you’re using your desktop device, tablet or your phone.
The former osboot project, started by the same founder as Libreboot, Leah Rowe, has today shut down; the osboot website now automatically redirects, via HTTP 301, to the libreboot website.
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Since 2020, Libreboot (and osboot) have both been through several reboots, forking off each other other to keep in sync. It was starting to become too much of a burden, which is the main reason the merger took place.
On November 14th, I (Leah Rowe) literally diffed all of Libreboot since the last reboot (of the Libreboot repository) and checked each one against osboot, adding whatever was missing from that in osboot. This then put the osboot project in sync with Libreboot, but in line with osboot and with the additional boards (plus scripts and so on) in osboot, compared to Libreboot pre-merge.
In the beginning Libreboot intentionally de-blobbed coreboot, which is to say that it did not include binary blobs. Coreboot, on the other hand, requires binary blobs on most systems that it has support for. Libreboot’s entirely “free” version of coreboot consequently supported fewer mainboards.
This event will be an opportunity for the community to get more information about the current and ongoing plans for the Sourceware infrastructure, and ask questions. The public meeting will be hosted on BigBlueButton and made available to the wider free software community via livestream.
Join the FSF and friends on Friday, November 18, from 12:00 to 15:00 EST (17:00 to 20:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.
We keep adding features and we do improvements at a rather high pace. So much that we actually rarely do a release without introducing something new.
To be able to add features and to keep changing curl and making sure that it keeps up with the world around it and that it provides the features and the abilities that a world of Internet transfers needs, we need to make sure that the internals are written correctly. And by correctly, I mean in a way that allows us to extend and change curl when we want to – that doesn’t break the ABIs nor the tests.
The Linux Foundation Europe (LF Europe) — the recently launched European offshoot of the open source Linux Foundation — today announced the launch of Project Sylva, which aims to create an open source telco cloud framework for European telcos and vendors. This is the first project hosted by LF Europe and is a good example of what the organization is trying to achieve.
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (kernel and webkit2gtk3), Red Hat (dhcp, dovecot, flac, freetype, fribidi, frr, gimp, grafana, guestfs-tools, httpd, kernel-rt, libtirpc, mingw-gcc, mingw-glib2, pcs, php, protobuf, python3.9, qemu-kvm, redis, speex, and swtpm), SUSE (chromium, containerized-data-importer, jhead, kubevirt stack, nodejs14, nodejs16, python-Werkzeug, and xen), and Ubuntu (golang-1.13, nginx, and vim).
Edge computing can make your cloud snappier and more efficient, but it requires attention to keep your data and connections secure.
CISA released one Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisory on November 15, 2022. This advisory provides timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS.
If an attacker sends a specially crafted certificate, then this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute malicious OS commands.
This minor release features 29 bug fixes in Core and 21 bug fixes for the block editor. WordPress 6.1.1 is a short-cycle maintenance release. You can review a summary of the key updates in this release by reading the RC1 announcement.
The next major release will be version 6.2 planned for 2023.
If you have sites that support automatic background updates, the update process will begin automatically.
You can download WordPress 6.1.1 from WordPress.org, or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click “Updates”, and then click “Update Now”.
For more information, check out the version 6.1.1 HelpHub documentation page.
Google has settled a case over location tracking brought by 40 attorneys-general in the US, paying US$391.5 million (A$578.95 million) in what is claimed to be the biggest multi-state attorney-general privacy settlement in the US.
Pennsylvania attorney-general Josh Shapiro said in a statement announcing the settlement on Monday: "Right now, consumers are beholden to Google’s promise that Big Tech knows what’s best for users’ data.
“Google’s impact on the lives of everyday Americans is pervasive – they have a responsibility to consumers to ensure that the data they collect is only obtained with express consent from the user."
The lawsuit was filed in 2018 after an article by the Associated Press noted that the check-box for "Location History" could not control location history across an entire Google account. The article also pointed out that many features associated with location-tracking were controlled by a second check-box with the name "Web & App Activity."
In checking, I found one major error. Abrash and Wikipedia both assert Prince Alfred and Maria first met in 1868 and they both assert that she was fifteen. Yet her fifteenth birthday was in October 1868. Therefore, is the month wrong, did they meet one summer later in 1869 or did Abrash miscalculate her age?
There are a wide range of sources about the evolution of the Russian dynasty and they all point to 1868, when the girl was even younger, only fourteen. The British records appear to be more concerned with the family's privacy and only identify the date of the marriage some years later. Around the same time, the Japanese Emporer teen Meiji was married. The birthdate of his wife was officially revised to make her closer to Meiji's age. Misogyny and monarchy hand-in-hand.
There are many records of Prince Alfred being on an extended tour of the far east and the pacific in 1869. Therefore, it doesn't seem to be possible that they met when she was fifteen. This reinforces the idea that Abrash was right about the year 1868 but wrong about her age.
U.S. patent litigation is big business. Billion-dollar judgments, readily available litigation financing, and favorable venues and lax filing standards...
God gave us some clear skies early this morning around 1:30am AKST. The quarter moon was not too bright, so I was able to get in a good early-morning stargazing session before it got cloudy again around 3am. I focused on two objects: one was the Pleiades, and the other was that interesting group of stars around û Ori (Meissa) at the head of the Orion constellation.
Obviously free allotment based on production, or even worse, “grandfathering” based on historical pollution, is a cruel joke and the EU severely messed up that day. 🤦ðŸÂȉâ¬Âââ¢â¬Ã¯Â¸Â
It’s free money for the richest. Do not want.
That might’ve been humanity’s greatest mistake. In the name of fighting climate change we gave the fossil industry a handout. What a mess. Fossil lobby and bribed politicians are gonna be the richest creeps on the cinder.
Economists wanted a cap that was auctioned out, instead. Much better.
I bought my first mechanical keyboard! It's a Keychron C1 and I absolutely love. It looks like the keyboards I used to use when I was younger but with a modern touch. I didn't want to spend a lot on my first keyboard so I focused on finding one without RGB. It was quite difficult finding models that didn't have it which I found surprising.
Eventually I found Keychron and their RGB-free model. It was reasonably priced I received it within a week. I'm currently using it to type out this post and I feel like an absolute boss. I went with the Ten Keyless (TKL) size and it's been pretty easy adjusting to not having the number pad. I'm actually pleasantly surprised by how much more room I have on my desk now.
First, comment the call to dehydrated in “/etc/cron.weekly/dehydrated”. I’m not removing it just yet.
# /home/alex/src/dehydrated/dehydrated -c
Go through the sites in “/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/” and comment the settings of SSL file locations: SSLCertificateFile, SSLCertificateKeyFile, SSLCertificateChainFile.
Create a managed domain by setting MDomain to all the domains you want managed together. These are basically the domains I had in “/etc/dehydrated/domains.txt”. Each line with one domain or more turns into a MDomain setting with one domain or more.
This idea of having a community that is open, but only to those who are going to give thoughtful interaction is something that has been eluding human beings for a long time. Consider the Roman republic. The Roman version of democracy gave voice to the people in their governance. However, "the people" were only those members of society who were native to Rome, male, and wealthy. This was also an example of a barrier to entry which is bad. It's also basically the same mistake that the US founding fathers repeated.
Going back to Rob's post and example of the golden age of air travel. The barrier of high cost might have had the desirable results that airline passengers were well treated, and in return were polite and plleasant customers. But I tend to think that requiring wealth as a barrier to entry is actually much worse than technical competence. Technical competence is at least something that a person can realistically hope to achieve on their own effort. I'm not arguing that it is the best measure of a person's merit, because it isn't.
As I’ve said again and again…
Having a small community is good.
Having the barrier to entry be technical competence is bad.
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.