On the other hand, we can see that corporations prefer to use Linux systems more. One of the reasons for this is Linux offers a great range of cybersecurity opportunities and other benefits for businesses. If you are a business owner or an IT specialist in a company, you should try the Linux system to see how it can accelerate your cybersecurity compliance process.
Linux is preferable in terms of cybersecurity solutions in corporations. Among other benefits, most companies use Linux for its credit on cybersecurity. Although Linux is a bit more trustable when compared to Windows it can not provide total cybersecurity in corporations. Businesses must take other precautions to avoid unwanted breaches or attacks. Blending the appropriate cybersecurity solution with Linux can skyrocket business quality and cyber safety.
Christmas is a great time to celebrate with your loved ones and learn new skills. But Linux can make holidays even better for you.
The holiday season is a great time to relax, get cozy, and take time for yourself. There are free tools that will help you boost your Christmas spirit, especially with Linux.
All that is needed is a Linux PC, a little patience, and a willingness to provide yourself with a priceless gift that keeps on giving. What is it? Being proud of yourself for learning a few more skills before we ring in the new year.
Powerful tools such as GIMP, Blender, and Bash scripts are great ways to help put you in the Christmas spirit.
Kubernetes v1.26 introduced generally available (GA) support for kubelet credential provider plugins, offering an extensible plugin framework to dynamically fetch credentials for any container image registry.
Finally Global Shortcuts have been merged into the XDG Desktop Portal project and are now available in the 1.16.0 release but now we must wait for all the desktop backend to actually implement it
In this video, we are looking at how to install Intellij Community on KDE Neon.
In this episode we highlight some of the available accessibility software that Ubuntu Mate has and how to use it. Accessibility software can help everyone to use a computer and use it to get things done. All without breaking the bank. Accessibility, also referenced as "Assistive Technology" or "Universal Access," is a key priority for Ubuntu MATE. When computer access is shared within a household or business and where individual needs differ, Ubuntu MATE is an excellent solution.
Dan Lorenc of Sigstore and Chainguard joins Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman on FLOSS Weekly to discuss the software supply chain.The open source software supply chains are increasingly vulnerable attack surfaces. Nobody knows more, or is doing more, to secure those surfaces than Dan Lorenc.
Today we will just talk fun holiday, Linux, Tech, and random hangout discussion with very little agenda.
I'm announcing the release of the 6.1.1 kernel.
All users of the 6.1 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 6.1.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.1.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-s...
thanks,
greg k-h
The world of technology is teeming with tools to help you create the most stunning designs for any project. And for Linux users, the good news is that you have some of the best design tools at your fingertips. From powerful vector graphics editors to versatile desktop publishing programs, this guide explores the best design tools available in the Linux ecosystem that will give your projects a professional edge.
Design tools on Linux can enable users to create highly polished visuals, prototypes, and designs quickly and easily. They provide access to an extensive range of features, allowing users to customize their experience to fit the needs of their project. One of the advantages of using design tools on Linux is the cost savings compared to more expensive software packages and services. Linux is open source, meaning that the underlying code is available and customizable by anyone.
Linux partition managers are powerful tools that allow users to create, resize, and manage the various partitions on their Linux systems. These partitions are essentially slices of your hard drive that can be used to store different types of data, such as your operating system, documents, media files, and more. With a partition manager, you can easily create new partitions, delete old ones, or resize existing partitions to better suit your needs.
Whether you’re a seasoned Linux user or just starting out, a good partition manager can make it much easier to manage your system and keep it running smoothly. So let’s dive in and explore the world of Linux partition managers!
Every IT pro knows that data is key to keeping things running smoothly. To that end, you need tools that can monitor usages such as CPU, RAM, load, Swap, bandwidth, disks and more. You might think getting a tool like that up and running would be a bit of a challenge. However, if Ubuntu Server is your platform of choice, adding this powerful web-based monitor is incredibly easy.
In this post, you will learn how to rename a table in MySQL / MariaDB, The procedure is simple and can save you some headache.
In some situations, you may want to rename a certain table in MySQL / MariaDB. This process although simple is important to know if you work daily with this powerful database manager.
Let’s go.
The ss command on Linux systems can provide extensive details on the sockets that provide communications between systems.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Ubuntu Cleaner on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Ubuntu Cleaner is a utility tool that is designed to help users clean up their Ubuntu system by removing unnecessary files, such as old package files, cached data, and temporary files. This helps to save space on your hard drive and increase your system’s performance.
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 Ubuntu Cleaner on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.
Here’s a guide for saving and opening tabs in your favourite web browser from the last session.
If you use hundreds of tabs and are reluctant to close them, like ever, then there’s a way to keep them as open as long as possible. Even if you close your browser or shut down your laptop, the browsers can pull up those tabs again for you.
This is usually done via built-in settings in popular web browsers. And they are different for each of them.
Most modern email clients have Send Later functionality already built into them. Find out how to add it to the open-source Thunderbird app.
Today we are looking at how to install MetaTrader 4 with the OctaFX Broker on a Chromebook.
The Linux time command is a utility that is used to measure the execution time of a command or program. It can be useful for testing the performance of different commands or programs, or for identifying bottlenecks in the execution process.
The Wine development release 8.0-rc2 is now available.
What's new in this release: - Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
The source is available at:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.0/wine-8.0-rc2.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:
https://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation
You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details.
Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
Next release will come soon, but since there have been some big changes it would be nice to have them tested by more people.
The biggest changes are to the playlist which can now open m3u files, supports adding both local files and urls, can be sorted, cleared and saved.
The other big changes are to the recent files, which has been rewriten to fix a bunch of bugs, see below.
If you want to add a clock to your Ubuntu desktop (or the desktop of any Linux distro using GNOME Shell) install the Desktop Clock GNOME extension.
This super simple, typographic timepiece puts the current time and date on your desktop.
Naturally, you can position the clock anywhere on your desktop, and tweak the typography to suit your tastes. It inherits your system font by default, and puts the time and date on separate lines, but you can choose to have it in a single line, and use any font that you want.
And what “you want” is the point here: this is a highly customisable widget for your desktop. You can pick a custom font, increase or decrease the font size, change font colour (including its opacity), and tweak the text shadow to make your timepiece pop (or set a totally transparent colour for no drop-shadow effect at all).
In the Peropesis 1.9 edition, the ability to set the system language, region and the ability to read and write text content in your native language was implemented (Note. Only a few languages of European countries have been tested). For this reason, the GNU C Library software package was fully installed and the KBD software package was newly installed. New chapters locale, terminal font and keyboard map was created in the user manual to discuss the nuances of managing the new equipment. Also in release 1.9 a full-featured terminal-based and ncurses-based text editor, JOE, was installed.
We hereby announce a new revision of Hyperbola live image for Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre. With this new version we have completed the support for runit as system for services and initialization. Furthermore we have fixed, updated and added many packages.
A new mirror is added at https://openmandriva.mirror.garr.it Many thanks to GARR Mirror
Someone recently contacted me with the request to base Slackware Live DAW edition on a stable Slackware release like 15.0 instead of using Slackware -current. The rationale being that it would bring relative peace of mind not having to worry about daily updates and potential sudden breakage of your audio applications. Instead you would only have to worry about applying security updates and as a result have a solid DAW experience.
Back in April, I announced the availability of gopass in the Fedora repositories. In the last few months, though, gopass had multiple releases, many of which arrived in Fedora 38 but not Fedora 37. Since Fedora 38 will be released in a few months, most users are not using it, and therefore those releases are not directly benefitting those users. The reason for the delayed update for Fedora 37 is that the dependencies of gopass changed in the course of those updates, and the Fedora process makes updating packages with many dependencies changes more painful than it could be.
The good news is that the update of gopass to 1.15.1 arrived in the Fedora 37 repositories.
Vera has arrived and although it is still using kernel 5.15, there are plenty of improvements sure to please everyone.
Linux Mint 21.1 (Vera) is available now and includes a refreshed UI with a new cursor, plenty of new app icon themes to choose from, and a change from the previous "minty" accent color to the new aqua color.
The changes aren't just aesthetics. You'll also find the Driver Manager can now be launched without typing your password. The Driver Manager also now displays an offline page if you've lost connectivity, and the mounting of live USB media is much more user-friendly.
This article guides you through all the steps to upgrade your current Linux Mint 21 “Vanessa” system to Linux Mint 21.1 “Vera.”
As we announced earlier, Linux Mint 21.1 “Vera” is now available for download and installation. This is the best Mint release yet, with many aesthetic and functional enhancements, so switching to it is strongly recommended.
Fortunately, because this is a minor upgrade if you are currently running Mint 21 “Vanessa,” upgrading to Mint 21.1 “Vera” is simple and seamless. Here’s how to do it.
The Linux Mint development team released a new version of the popular Linux distribution earlier this week. Linux Mint 21.1 is a long term support release, just like Linux Mint 21. The new Linux Mint version changes the look and feel of the operating system, and introduces improvements to several core applications, such as Update Manager, Software Manager and Driver Manager.
Banana BPI-Bit-S2 is a board for the education market that’s compatible with the BBC Micro:bit V2, but offers WiFi connectivity instead of Bluetooth LE through an Espressif Systems ESP32-S2 wireless microcontroller.
The BPI-Bit-S2 succeeds the earlier Banana Pi BPI-Bit with ESP32 WiFi & BLE microcontroller that was a closer match to the original BBC Micro:bit than the new ESP32-S2 board for which I see little benefit, except for the slightly lower price tag.
Our customers and supporters are concerned about the privacy of their phone data. With other big telecom providers, phone data does not stay private; it’s collected, linked with a person’s identity, and sold to advertisers. Purism treats user data like uranium. Unlike Big Telecom, Purism does not spy, and does not share any Personal Identifiable Information (PII) with any cellular carriers, fully protecting the privacy of its users.
You’ve probably seen videos of people moving magnets near iron dust, which results in the dust aligning itself to the patterns created by the magnetic fields. Magnetic viewing film works the same way, but with the dust in an oil suspension sitting in the gap between two sheets of transparent plastic. By moving that film over magnets, one can see the magnetic fields almost like they’re on an LCD panel. Moritz v. Sivers took advantage of that fact to build a clock that displays the time on magnetic viewing film.
Sivers did this by putting a small sheet of magnetic viewing film in a 3D-printed frame over four wheels. They arranged numbers around the circumference of those four wheels, a bit like an analog clock face. The numbers are made of magnetic foil, so their magnetic fields appear on the viewing film as the wheels rotate. Four boxes stenciled onto the viewing film indicate which numbers make up the current time, so reading this magnet clock is as easy as any digital clock.
Open-source software recently earned a new round of accolades as an educated benefit in schools and government offices. German state officials flunked Microsoft’s Office suite and turned to a well-known, non-proprietary, cross-platform replacement.
Mastodon's surge in popularity shows no signs of slowing down.
Hello! On Monday, we released a new zine: The Pocket Guide to Debugging! It has 47 of my favourite strategies for solving your sneakiest bugs.
If there’s anything that Santa and his elves ought to know, it’s how to make a list. After all, they’re reading lists that children send in, and Santa maintains his very famous list. Another thing we know is that Santa and his elves are quite multilingual.
So one day one of the elfs decided that, rather than hand typing out a list of gifts based on the data they received (requiring elves that spoke all the world’s languages), they’d take advantage of the power of Unicode’s CLDR (Common Linguistic Data Repository). This is Unicode’s lesser-known project. As luck would have it, Raku has a module providing access to the data, called Intl::CLDR. One elf decided that he could probably use some of the data in it to automate their list formatting.
As reported, it has 8GiB soldered onto the motherboard and 8GiB in a SODIMM card.
Online searching revealed very little information whether the laptop will support anything larger than 8GiB. The Acer official docs state that 8GiB is the maximum. One user reported a 16GiB SODIMM module worked, but he had problems with 32GiB -- no details provided.
Open source connected car apps will be displayed by Amazon Web Services (AWS), EPAM, Igalia, Panasonic, Renesas, and VNC Automotive in the AGL booth.
AGL, an industry-wide initiative creating an open source platform for all connected automotive technologies, will exhibit at CES 2023 at the West Hall Booth #4141 of the Las Vegas Convention Center from January 5–8, 2023.
Andrew 'bunnie' Huang writes about his work with Cramium to bring more openness to secure element chips...
Thanks to an OpenSSF grant, OSTIF helped us set up a curl security audit, which the excellent Trail of Bits was selected to perform in September 2022. We are most grateful to OpenSSF for doing this for us, and I hope all users who use and rely on curl recognize this extraordinary gift. OSTIF posted about this separately.
We previously had an audit performed on curl back in 2016 by Cure53 (sponsored by Mozilla) but I like to think that we (curl) have traveled quite far and matured a lot since those days. The fixes from the discoveries reported in that old previous audit were all merged and shipped in the 7.51.0 release, in November 2016. Now over six years ago.
Software Freedom Conservancy has today submitted its reply to the FTC's request for comments on how repair information should be displayed on EnergyGuide labels. In particular, SFC has recommended that the FTC mandate a "Software Repair Instructions" section on the EnergyGuide labels that are already required on a variety of home appliances, including televisions, refrigerators, clothes washers, and dishwashers. This would not be a new notice requirement for most manufacturers, since it (currently) only requires manufacturers to provide the notice when they already had obligations under copyleft licenses to offer source code already. This merely changes the prominence of such notices, so that users can more easily see which products contain copylefted software (and thus software repair instructions) or not. This is important because many manufacturers make efforts to deemphasize or obscure their offers (if they have them at all), which prevents consumers from learning that they have rights with respect to their software.
We are very happy to see the FTC requesting comments on how repair information for home appliances can be better provided to purchasers of these products. While the FTC's EnergyGuide labeling program started out as a way for purchasers to better assess how much energy each appliance would likely use, and approximately how much that would cost them, the FTC has been taking a more holistic view of how appliance purchases impact the world, not just in terms of how much energy they consume while operating, but also how much energy is required to manufacture them and, consequently, how we can reduce the number of appliances going into landfills, reducing the number of new appliances that need to be manufactured. Free and open source software provides many answers to these repair and longevity questions, and we hope that appliance purchasers will be made more aware of this through the FTC's updated labeling requirements.
As one of his first official acts as Director of Compliance, Denver Gingerich submitted a comment to the FTC on behalf of SFC proposing adding software Right to Repair instructions for copyleft software on appliances. In conversations with various Right to Repair organizations, we brainstormed how to submit to the new FTC request for comment for the EnergyGuide labeling system. Based on these discussions, we found that there is no organization or governing body requiring repair instruction labeling for software. Given how many modern electronics and appliances rely on copylefted free software, SFC recommended adding software repair instructions that include labeling that there is copyleft software on the device and including specific links to the source code and repair instructions on the manufacturer's website. These are already required by the license, but are often buried deep in a manual somewhere. Adding these instructions would extend the rights afforded by copyleft software to all users of hardware that rely on it.
On Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a segment titled: Litigation Funding: A multibillion-dollar industry for investments in lawsuits with little oversight.€
I love the system (saved my life a couple of times) but I don’t think the book is a good place to start. I’ve read it many times because I’m obsessed with it but it led me down to a couple of bad paths when I was first starting out.
Bad path number one: writing down everything but not processing it properly.
Bad path number two: writing down and processing everything but not actually doing the stuff.
Bad path number three: having lots and lots of well-organized lists, doing the stuff, and getting stressed and exhausted.
A post about my own personal 2022 - financial situation, GTD, and downtime.
Drink in the memory of the fallen and in the honor of the living.
Don't forget to ask your fortune from Hafez.
"Political Order and Inequality" by Carles Boix is a rather good book; it posits a simple game whereby agents can produce or loot. If someone is good at producing, then it makes sense for others to loot from them. This has much relevance to high technology, where it makes sense for those not in the knows to loot from those who are; looting knowledge is much easier than the many hours and much reading and experimentation it takes to figure out how these computer things work. Therefore, help vampires. Digital goods on account of their ease of storage will also be prone to looting.
While I did see a handful of people with the misconception that previously released OGL material would somehow “go away”, most of us were concerned that the new, incompatible version (for example, subclasses don’t match up on the same levels) would not be released as an open source SRD. This worry was especially relevant as we participated in an unpaid playtest process (which, for an open source game, we would gladly do).
Did stargazing from about 8:30pm to 10pm AKST yesterday evening at the Chena Pump boat launch. I wouldn't call it one of my better stargazing session, but it was the first one I've done at -40 âââ° (-40 ââÆ). I wonder if that puts me in some kind of exclusive club. Maybe the Club of People Crazy Enough to Go Stargazing at -40.
Solderpunk's piece in the noodle issue of Circumlunar Transmissions sent me on a hunting trip for the book "Life on an ice floe: diary of Ivan Papanin", from the leader of the first soviet North Pole scientific mission.
I left off my previous entry pointing to a function that I would love to have seen someone else “unit test,” but alas, no one did. But I always had plans on going all “The Martian [4]” on the code [5] and “unit test the XXXX out of it.”
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.