First up in the news: Mint 21.2 Victoria released, Canonical’s Leading LXD Engineer Quits, Ubuntu Plans to Ditch its ‘Minimal’ Install Option, a new BlendOS v3, SUSE forks Red Hat
In security and privacy, Avrecon malware affects 70,000 Linux servers, turns them into a botnet, and we meet RCE Flaw and PyLoose Malware
Then in our Wanderings Joe has a bad reaction, Moss forgot to write something here, Bill more of the same, Majid pretends to be a socialist
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As we reported in previous blog post, almost the entire Bootlin engineering team was at the Embedded Linux Conference Europe in Prague in June.
Some programs/tools/utility on Ubuntu required java/JVM, without java these programs are not working. Are you facing the same problem?
Learn the underlying mechanism of the repository system in Ubuntu to better handle the package management and avoid common update errors.
In this article, we will walk you through the process of removing Windows from the UEFI boot menu after installing Ubuntu. This might be necessary if you have decided to completely switch over to Ubuntu and no longer need the Windows boot option.
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To remove Windows from the UEFI boot menu after installing Ubuntu, you need to access the terminal, identify the Windows boot entry using the efibootmgr command, remove the boot entry using the efibootmgr -b -B command, delete the Windows folder from the EFI partition, and update GRUB to hide the GRUB menu.
In this post, I discuss recent research by Hassan Habibi Gharakheili, Vijay Sivaraman, and myself from the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales that presents a solution for monitoring the enterprise hosts with fine-grained visibility into their network behavioural profiles.
This research passively analyses network traffic from/to all connected hosts in an enterprise network, regardless of their SOE configuration status. By constructing specialized network behavioural profiles with AI-based classifications, real-time inference on the network behavioural patterns of hosts and potential anomalies are generated for IT departments.
I usually tend to write about the tools that I use, whether it’s programming, or writing for my blog. Well, this time, I guess it’s a bit of both. As I’m now using Neovim for practically any task that involves writing text.
Now, before setting off on a journey, it is worth seeing if anyone else has tried this before. I found David Pustansky's First Folio Font. There's not much info about it, other than it's based on the 1623 folio. It's a nice font, but missing brackets and a few other pieces of punctuation. Also, no ligatures. And the long s is in the wrong place.
So, let's try to build a font!
The cybersecurity industry is vast and entails many specialized topics. No one person can learn or know everything and the breadth of concepts to learn can seem overwhelming. Admittedly, I spent a considerable amount of time looking at the different types of cybersecurity career paths out there. On that note, one of the best decisions I’ve made regarding cybersecurity education and career insights was joining the WreckItmech Oxvmx TechHub server on Discord. It’s a safe supportive space where seasoned and aspiring cybersecurity professionals can communicate with each other.
Ubuntu 23.04 was released to the public in April 2023 with support until April 2024. Although an interim release, major updates such as a better GUI with GNOME 44, GPU support with Mesa 23 drivers, and overall faster performance through the Linux 6.2 kernel had many people trying it out as a virtual machine.
However, if you try installing Ubuntu 23.04 on VMware, you'll likely face a login problem even if you've configured your machine correctly.
If you're having trouble with the login screen when trying to install "Lunar Lobster" on VMware, below is a step-by-step on how to fix the problem.
Probably my absolutely favourite action platformer for the over time action and hilarious characters, Broforce is set for the Broforce FOREVER update on August 8th.
Caves of Qud from Freehold Games is probably the absolutely wildest roguelike I've ever played and now the developers are teaming up with Dwarf Fortress publisher Kitfox Games to publishing it with the final release in 2024.
With some really fun animated ASCII artwork, Stone Story RPG is a really interesting mixture of an auto-RPG with strategic combat, crafting, programming and more. An incredibly unique game where descriptions and screenshots really don't tell you enough, you need to watch it and experience it to actually get it. Just be careful, this one is easy to get lost in for hours and hours.
After an inspiring participation to Akademy, where we presented some of the actions we want to take to improve Kdenlive’s stability and reliability, we are announcing the first beta version for the upcoming Kdenlive 23.08.0 version.
The Kdenlive 23.04.x version was unfortunately affected by major regressions related to the new timeline nesting feature.
We are now working on major improvements to our test suite pipeline to ensure such things don’t get unnoticed before a release. In the meantime, all major issues related to nesting, as well as many other bugs, are now fixed in this new beta and we encourage all interested users to test this version to ensure we have the best possible experience for the final release.
So we are just past the midway point for GSoC and last update I told you guys that I had a working (albeit somewhat buggy) TUN Driver working. I had gotten great feedback from Pulkomandy, Axel, and Korli to help with a more efficient driver and to make it more human-readable because it made no sense the way I had written it. I have very good news to bring to everyone in that all of the 3 main problems that I talked about last time are all solved! I think most of them got solved after I fully understood creating semaphores and imposed execution order by adding a write semaphore. While this new code made the driver much more efficient and less error-prone, there were two new errors that popped up during testing: [...]
Also – having various Intel based ThinkPads in past years I also wanted to check how FreeBSD copes with AMD only based hardware – on all aspects such as motherboard/CPU/GPU subsystems.
CIQ, Rocky Linux's founding support and services partner, has customized its own take, Ascender on the Ansible AWX front end to the popular DevOps program Ansible.
Best known for supporting Rocky Linux, CIQ also offers high-performance computing (HPC) and server management programs such as Fuzzball, Warewulf, and Apptainer. Now, it's taken the open-source Ansible AWX, a web-based user interface, application programming interface (API), and task engine built on top of the Ansible DevOps program to create its own DevOps interface take. Ascender AWX is also one of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (RHAP)'s upstream projects.
Red Hat recently changed the rules for getting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) open-source code. This ticked off the RHEL clone vendors, such as AlmaLinux and Oracle Linux. In particular, the Rocky Linux Software Foundation (RLSF) strenuously objected to this and has elected to keep building Rocky Linux off RHEL source code.
This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on libera.chat.
NGINX is an open-source, high-performance HTTP server software. In the tutorial, you will learn how to install the Nginx web server on Fedora Linux systems. Prerequisites A running Fedora Linux system A user account with sudo or root access.
Recently the Linux Mint team released their latest version of Linux Mint, 20.1 Ulyssa, and we as Linux enthusiasts are of course always eager to find out what is new and what has changed. Because Linux Mint is always based on the latest Ubuntu LTS base and will stick to it until the next Ubuntu Long Term Support release is available, the interim Linux Mint point releases like 21.2 are mostly an evolution and not a revolution. But nevertheless, the team behind Linux Mint always comes up with and implements handy, productive, and really nice improvements. So let’s see what is new in Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria.
The latest version of Ubuntu Touch is out and, among other things, it brings official support for three more devices: the Fairphone 3, Volla Phone X23, and F(x)tec Pro1 X.
Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-2 can also be installed on a number of other phones from Fairphone, OnePlus, Volla, Google, and Xiaomi.
The LoShark is an ultra-compact USB debug tool capable of running Linux and offering LoRa connectivity. This open-source device can run independently or alongside a computer to be used in various IoT and data collection applications.
The product page indicates that this embedded device integrates the Ingenic X1501 System-on-Chip with the following features...
The DX-1200 is a high-performance industrial embedded system designed to meet demanding computing tasks in various applications. The device is built around the 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake-S Series CPUs which supports up to 64GB of DDR5 4800MHz memory, with ECC error correction technology that identifies errors in real time, ensuring stability and reliability.
The Turing RK1 is a computer module powered by the Octa-core Rockchip RK3588 System-on-Chip. The RK1 will be available with up to 32GB RAM, 16GB eMMC storage and various other interfaces.
Youyeetoo launched this week a X86 single board computer that packs flexible features in a compact form factor. The Youyeetoo X1is powered by an 11th Gen Intel Celeron N5105 Quad-core processor, clocked at 2.0GHz and is available with various RAM and storage options.
ESP32-S3-DevKit-LiPo is small EUR 12 Open Source Hardware board which is capable to run Linux Kernel 6.x and MicroPython.
I started with three Picos connected by their I2C ports – one as an I2C controller and two I2C processors, all powered by individual USB cables and connected via a strip of Veroboard. A quick test in MicroPython proved that it was workable but, as we are aiming for speed, I quickly swapped to C. Luckily, there is example code for the Pico I2C Slave in Raspberry Pi’s C GitHub, and this formed the basis for the Processor-to-Processor communication.
This tutorial will show you how to install LibreELEC on a Raspberry PI computer board.
The OpenUK Awards are open for nominations for 2023.
- Nominations open 28th July 2023
- Nominations close midnight UK 19th September 2023 (this will not be extended)
- Shortlist of up to 3 nominees per category announced 18th October 2023
- Winners Announced 20th November 2023: Black Tie Awards Ceremony and dinner at House of Lords sponsored by Lord Vaizey, 6-10.30pm, tickets limited€
Self nominations are very welcome. If you know fit into the categories or have a project or company which does or know anyone else who does then fill in the form and say why it’s deserved. You might get fame and glory or at the least a dinner in the house of lords.
In the world of database management systems, PostgreSQL (Postgres) is a popular choice due to its robust features and flexibility. One powerful function it offers is COALESCE, which allows you to handle null values effectively. In this blog post, you will explore what PostgreSQL COALESCE is, learn when it is useful, and see examples to demonstrate how to use it effectively. Let's get going!
EDB is pleased to announce the release of Barman 3.7.0. This release expands support for the snapshot
backup_method, which creates full backups by taking snapshots of cloud storage volumes, by adding support for AWS using EBS volume snapshots. Support for Google Cloud disk snapshot and Microsoft Azure managed disks were added in previous Barman releases.Highlights of this release
Version 3.7.0 - 25 July 2023
If you have ever tried to build LibreOffice code, you know that it can take a lot of time. LibreOffice has ~6 million lines of C++ and some Java code (<280k). But, there are tools that can help you build LibreOffice from source code much faster, if you do it repeatedly! Here I discuss how.
Even with a fast computer, compiling huge amount of C/C++ code takes a lot of time. Compiling 6 million lines of C/C++ code in LibreOffice will take you several minutes (if not hours) with a decent computer with fast CPU and a lot of RAM.
But, people who work on developing LibreOffice need to build it from the source repeatedly. Because only a fraction of the code changes each time, there is a big chance that one can re-use the compiled objects, and that’s where ccache (and similar tools) come in. It caches the compiled objects, and before trying to re-compile the code, searches inside the cache to see if a previously compiled objects are usable.
Greta Galli is a 20-year-old maker – as well as a content creator, student and teacher! – focusing her high energy levels on robotics and 3D printing. If you think that’s a lot, it is. But keep in mind she got her first taste of making at the young age of 11, when she took part in a kids’ workshop at a tech fair. Fast forward a few years and she heard her high school would start teaching with Arduino, so she jumped the gun and bought her first board.
Natural language processing (NLP) is a set of techniques for using computers to detect in human language the kinds of things that humans detect automatically.
Thank you for coming to the the 1st Contribution Hackathon at GUADEC 2023. As the name implies, in this event, we’ll teach you how to make your first code contribution to GNOME. Buckle up!
Setup
There are three components that we need for making the contribution: flatpak, flathub, and GNOME Builder. Here’s how to get each of them:
Flatpak
Flatpak is a packaging format for graphical applications that works on any GNU/Linux distribution. It is the most widely embraced packaging format for GNOME applications. To get flatpak on your distro of choice, run:
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How does git merge one or more branches? A look at the different merge strategies and algorithms.
In late 2018, when I still worked at the Met Office, I sent a document to some people there which explained why I thought AI would come to dominate weather forecasting, and why weather forecasting organisations should be looking at AI, urgently. Today, the 28th of July 2023, there is a leader on the subject in The Economist as well as an extended article in its Science and Technology section.
Remember, quantum programming can seem daunting at first, but with practice and patience, you'll start to grasp these new concepts and begin to appreciate the immense potential that quantum computing offers. Happy coding!
This is the third post in a series of posts about Nix. Disclaimer: I’m a super beginner with Nix. So this series of blog posts is more akin to notes that I’m taking while learning than a super detailed tutorial. So if you’re a Nix expert and read something stupid in here, that’s normal. This post is going to focus on R (obviously) but the ideas are applicable to any programming language.
This blog post is part tutorial on creating an api using the {plumber} R package, part an illustration of how Nix makes developing and deploying a breeze.
This is the first of a (hopefully) series of posts about Nix. Disclaimer: I’m a super beginner with Nix. So this series of blog posts is more akin to notes that I’m taking while learning than a super detailed tutorial. So if you’re a Nix expert and read something stupid in here, that’s normal. This post is going to focus on R (obviously) but the ideas are applicable to any programming language.
