This has been a great week for Linux news and releases following last week’s slowest pace of the year. We saw the release of the amazing GNOME 42 desktop environment with all of its goodies, which already landed in Clear Linux and openSUSE Tumbleweed, and we got a new Debian Bullseye release, version 11.3, packed with all the latest security updates.
On top of that, I show you how to install the latest Linux 5.17 kernel on Ubuntu. You can enjoy this and much more in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for March 27th, 2022, below!
We explore what makes NixOS so powerful, and why it might be the future of all Linux distributions.
Plus we announce a community-wide NixOS challenge for the month of April.
Josh and Kurt talk about the latest [Microsoft] NPM backdoored package. It feels like this keeps happening. We talk about why this is and why it’s probably OK. Kurt fixes Linus’ Law, in open source the superpower isn’t bugs are shallow (they’re not), the superpower is security bugs in open source can’t be ignored.
Arch Linux seems to run on Apple Silicon Macs
A small group of volunteers has worked to get Asahi Linux up and running on Apple Silicon Macs, by adapting existing drivers and (in the case of the GPU) painstakingly writing their own, and rescue the hardware from the Walled Garden.
Last week, the team released its first alpha installer to the general public and the software supports the new M1 Ultra in the Mac Studio.
In the current alpha most of the hardware works including Wi-Fi, USB 2.0 over the Thunderbolt ports (USB 3.0 only works on Macs with USB-A ports, but USB 3.0 over Thunderbolt is "coming soon"), and the built-in display.
Atlassian Corporation Plc is a software company founded in 2002 that develops products for software developers, project managers and other software development teams. It employs over 7,000 people and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
Atlassian produces a range of proprietary software including software for collaboration, development, and issue tracking software for teams. Atlassian dominates several markets where it still has intense competition.
Broadly speaking, they offer software in three large buckets: These are software development tools; help desk software, or IT service management; and workflow management software. When you think of Atlassian, think project management and collaboration tools.
Metadata exists everywhere, whether it is a document, a message, pictures, or other file types.
You can easily access the metadata when you inspect the properties of a file.
However, users do not often focus on eliminating or getting rid of the metadata before sharing files. Mainly because they may not be aware of simple tools that make the task easier.
Metadata Cleaner is one such tool available for Linux users.
Internet radio has become the norm in the age of the world wide web. We no longer need to finick around with a traditional radio player that is rather cumbersome to use.
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Advanced Radio Player is a KDE native application that has the benefit of being the default player for systems that use the KDE Plasma desktop environment.
Today, almost all mobile devices allow you to stream a radio station on the go. Most of these applications have an interface to choose your preferred music and stream it as you’re on and about.
Install the official Spotify desktop client on your Ubuntu/Debian system to enhance your musical experience.
Spotify is a digital music streaming service that gives you access to millions of songs. It is currently the most popular streaming music service. Hundreds of millions of people use it to listen to music and consume podcasts every day.
This article will guide you to install the Spotify desktop client on Ubuntu, Debian, or other Debian-based distros such as Linux Mint, elementary OS, etc., in three easy-to-follow steps through the official Spotify package repository.
You would have to be familiar with the command line because this is the simplest way to install the app.
In this tutorial, we will discuss a brief overview about Linux containers and its use cases. Then we will move on to see how to list available container templates from Proxmox web dashboard, download a container template and finally create Proxmox containers using the downloaded container template from Proxmox dashboard.
Wiki.js is open-source wiki software, it’s powerful and easily extensible, it’s an engine running on node.js and is written in javascript. It’s available as a self-hosted solution or as a single-click install from Digital Ocean and AWS marketplace.
There are several text editors available for Linux and one of them is gEdit. It is developed by Gnome and can be installed from standard Ubuntu repositories. You will see how to install it. I am using Ubuntu 20.04 Mate edition, and it does not come preinstalled. The text editor has an enormous number of functions and can be used for programming purposes as well.
Learn how to install, view, and query data in MySQL and its open source implementation, MariaDB.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Gwenview on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Gwenview is a fast and easy-to-use basic image viewer for the KDE desktop environment. It is capable of showing images in a full-screen slideshow view and making simple adjustments, such as rotating or cropping images and much more.
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 Gwenview image viewer 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.
Icinga2 is a powerful free and open-source monitoring tool that keeps an eye on your network resources and sends alerts or notifications in case of failure or outages. It also collects metrics from network resources that can help you generate performance data and create reports.
Icinga2 is scalable and it can monitor small to large and complex networks across various locations. In this guide, you will learn how to install the Icinga2 monitoring tool on Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04.
If you want to do a task with a particular user account that you are not currently logged in to, you usually change your user account for some time to complete that task. However, if you want to save yourself the whole process of changing users, you can also do it through the Linux terminal. In both cases, however, you’ll need to enter the login password for that user account before you can access it.
Fortunately, you can even bypass this password on Linux if you don’t know it or don’t want to enter it for some reason. You can do this by using the “su” command to switch from your current user account to your desired user account without entering its password. The whole process will become clearer to you if you go through the method of switching to another user account without specifying the password using the “su” command in Ubuntu 20.04.
You can't edit Gnome themes, no more, someone wrote me in an email. And I replied, what what. The person pointed out that the instructions I laid out in my Gnome theme edit guide no longer worked. Specifically, the gtk.css file, which is supposed to contain the necessary clauses to make theme changes, like font color for instance, simply weren't there anymore.
I decided to explore this further. I powered on CentOS 9 Stream, which comes with a modern version of the Gnome desktop environment, and I looked what gives under the Adwaita theme folder. Indeed, the old method of customization seems no longer applicable. Which is why we need this tutorial. Begin, we must.
In the entire post, we have seen a detailed explanation of how soft and hard links work on Linux. In case you intend to create a hard link to a directory, please be note that on modern computers, it’s almost impossible to create a hard link of directories. But you can create soft links to directories.
I hope this post has been helpful for you; if yes, please share this post with your friends and the Linux community. You can also let us know which linking you find most useful, or you’ve been using most on your system.
Multimedia codecs are comprised of the necessary libraries and dependencies for the operation of various forms of media files. Numerous Linux distributions (for example, Manjaro) include pre-defined set codecs.
Linux Mint adds the ability to install multimedia codecs during the system’s installation. However, you may uncheck that option for various reasons, including accelerating the installation process.
Apart from installing additional media players, such as VLC or MPV, multimedia codecs allow audio and video playback using integrated players. Additionally, after installation, encrypted DVD playback is permitted.
A firewall protects a network by permitting or stopping data packets depending on security criteria. An effective firewall examines incoming traffic according to predefined criteria and prevents attacks by filtering questionable or unprotected data. Firewalls safeguard computer traffic at ports, where peripheral devices exchange data with a computer.
By deploying firewalls, you may prevent unwanted traffic from accessing your internal network perimeter from malicious sources, such as viruses and hackers. Therefore, this post will define a UFW firewall and demonstrate how to open a firewall port on Linux Mint.
A firewall protects a network by permitting or stopping data packets depending on security criteria. An effective firewall examines incoming traffic according to predefined criteria and prevents attacks by filtering questionable or unprotected data.
In this article we will learn how to Install Apache Cassandra in CentOS 8. Apache Cassandra was initially released in 2008 by the Apache Software Foundation. It is a free, open-source, NoSQL database management system that is designed to address large Data that can be shared across multiple servers. It provides high availability and it has excellent fault tolerances on basic hardware as well as in a larger cloud infrastructure.
Samba is a powerful open-source tool that permits Windows-like sharing of files and printers in a network on Linux systems. It enabled the coexistence and interrelation of Linux and Windows machines on the same network. Samba is installed on the Linux server that hosts the files to be shared. These shared files can be accessed by an accredited Linux or Windows client on the same network.
Bagisto is a free, open-source eCommerce Platform. It is developed on Laravel and Vue.JS. It is a complete e-Commerce solutions for users who are looking to start their business and wants to sell their product online. So, it comes with many features like Responsive Front-End, Modern Admin Panel, Multiple Payment Gateways, Payment Gateway Integration, Access Control Levels, Multi-Currency etc. It provides users with small,medium to any size of businesses with a complete e-Commerce Package.
. Let’s go with a more technical tutorial. Many times, we need to increase the size of the boot partition in Rocky Linux 8 / CentOS. The reasons can be very varied, but it’s always good to know. Let’s get started.
Prometheus is a open-source, reliable and strong monitoring and alerting system, Which is developed in Go. It can generate different data metrics from Operating Systems, Softwares, Services in real time and alert users depending upon the metrics. Prometheus metrics are collected through HTTP Pulls Requests which allows higher performance and scalability. It also offers multi-dimensional data model, Flexible query language and visualizations possibilities through tools like Grafana.
When working in the local environment, each system is assigned an IP address to distinguish them from one another on the LAN. However, it is very difficult to remember each host by their IP address, especially in a large environment. In this case, we can assign a unique hostname to each machine to remember them easily. Hostname also allows each machine to communicate using the device name rather than the IP address.
Commands to install Seige Benchmarking tool on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS focal fossa for testing HTTP or HTTPS web server terminal.
Siege is a free web server stressing tool to install on Linux operating systems such as Ubuntu 20.04 using a command terminal for HTTP load testing and benchmarking. We can use it for stress testing by defining single or multiple URLs for simulated users. The result of the load test gives complete details of the number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 protocols, the GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and basic authentication.
If you’ve ever used any modern Windows 10 laptop with a decent touchpad, or a MacBook, you know how touchpad gestures make using the laptop so much easier. In many ways, they make the touchpad even better than using a Bluetooth mouse. Unfortunately, Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu haven’t really caught up in that department. But Ubuntu is still Linux so, if you want something, you can have it with a little effort. Today we’ll see how you can customize Ubuntu touchpad gestures.
We’re going to use a nifty little app, simply called Gesture. The interface is designed with the GNOME desktop environment in mind, but the functionality is the same on any desktop. Ubuntu and other Linux distros do come with some basic touchpad gestures for scrolling and right-click. For anything more, we can use the Gesture app. Basically, it deals with gestures that require three or four fingers.
Joomla is an open-source CMS (Content Management System) primarily written in PHP programming language due to its scripting prowess.
It is characterized as free and open source to imply that any user who wishes to benefit from its usage has full control. Therefore, if you are interested in creating a blog/news/content site for a business or as a personal project, Joomla is an ideal candidate.
A network boot installation allows you to install CentOS to a system with access to an installation server. At a minimum, two approaches are required for a network installation:
PXE Server: A system running a DHCP server, a TFTP server, and an HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, or NFS server. While each server can run on a different physical system, the procedures in this section assume a single system is running all servers.
Client: The system to which you are installing CentOS. Once installation starts, the client queries the DHCP server, receives the boot files from the TFTP server, and downloads the installation image from the HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, or NFS server. Unlike other installation methods, the client does not require any physical boot media for the installation to start.
Here's another developer who upgraded their game ready for the Steam Deck, with the popular 100% Orange Juice. ICYMI: we're close to 2,000 titles rated either Verified or Playable.
What is it? 100% Orange Juice is a digital multiplayer board game populated by developer Orange Juice's all-star cast. Characters from Flying Red Barrel, QP Shooting, Suguri and Sora come together with all-new characters to duke it out... with dice.
Portal 2: Desolation is an upcoming community-made Portal game, created by fans in tribute to Valve's iconic series and it's going to look pretty fancy.
The team has been toiling away to push what they can do with the Source engine, and they've now "completely replaced" the rendering and lighting pipeline. They did this due to some issues with the way Source originally did it, and the new physically-based renderer gives them completely real-time lighting. They also get a lot more flexibility, enabling "lights to move and change color/intensity in the level, making it possible for us to choreograph more sophisticated, dynamic scenes with lighting". With this they also upgraded reflections, shadows, rebuilt some core Portal 2 assets to increase fidelity and much more. It's safe to say it's incredibly ambitious and hopefully players will enjoy it.
Downfall - A Slay the Spire Fan Expansion (the full name), is a bit of a mouthful but it's also spilling over the side with features. So much so, that it got a Steam release outside the workshop — you still need to own Slay the Spire though of course as it's a big mod.
Steam Deck is getting close to hitting a pretty big milestone, with nearly 2,000 games rated Verified or Playable. Considering it only released just over a month ago, it's a pretty sweet place to be for Valve's handheld.
Not without issues though, with some games not really having the correct rating which Valve now wants feedback on with their new system. Still, it seems like the vast majority are being given a rating that fits in well.
Dota 2 has a very lively community, and sadly often you will come across some attitudes that just aren't friendly and now Valve has made it simpler to deal with them in-game.
There's now a single button that gives you access to mute voice, text and report a player all from the same little screen. A very useful change. There's also a quick way to mute an entire team if they're a problem. It's a shame such things are needed but welcome changes from Valve there.
The KDE Plasma desktop is an attractive and feature-rich environment to use. It provides a fluid interface with a touch of elegance that leaves many other Linux desktop environments in the dust. The desktop’s laser focus is on simplicity, as well as making your life easier.
As a system of tightly integrated user interfaces, the KDE Plasma desktop provides the necessary software and hardware configuration to create an environment that the majority of users will find appealing.
The KDE desktop is one of the most popular desktop environments out there. However, many users complain that the interface is not friendly to newbies but it really does come down to a matter of opinion and familiarity with other desktops outside Linux.
Admittedly this experiment didn't really get off the ground and I questioned whether to write about Zenwalk at all. Were it a stand-alone review I probably wouldn't have shared my thoughts on this distribution with the world. However, I felt it worthwhile because my main motivation for trying Zenwalk was to see how it would compare to Slackware Linux 15.0. Slackware felt overly large, overly generic, and overly complicated to use compared to mainstream distributions and I was curious to see how Zenwalk would work given its more specific mission of being a desktop operating system.
What I found interesting was that while Slackware set up a desktop environment and worked in multiple test environments as a desktop system without problems, Zenwalk could not. On the flip side, Slackware's package management failed completely for me while Zenwalk offered two package managers (slackpkg and Flatpak) which worked passably well.
In other words, while I had problems with both, they were entirely different issues. And, to make matters stranger, the two distributions mostly run the same software, use the same repositories, and are binary compatible.
Ultimately, while I think Zenwalk does some good work to narrow the focus of its parent and streamlines things, it also runs into similar setbacks. It's still using a verbose, text-based installer, it still forgoes using HTTPS on its website, it doesn't have a live desktop edition, and still relies on third-party efforts to fill in the package management gaps. I'm sure Zenwalk's simple engineering under the hood still appeals to some people, but I think it involves more manual work and more legacy technology than most computer users will want to deal with at this point in time.
Ubuntu-Based Feren OS 2022.03, Independent Distro 4MLinux 39.0, Debian GNU/Linux 11.3 “Bullseye” Released
In this week, multiple Linux based operating system has been released
Ubuntu-based Feren OS 2022.03 has been released. Feren OS 2022.03 is powered by Linux 5.13.
Feren OS, the Ubuntu-based distro for users migrating from Windows and Chrome OS, has just released version 2022.03!
Not to forget, it also happens to be one of the most beautiful Linux distributions available.
With the latest Feren OS 2022.03 update, the release brings a few new features and improvements.
The few who were expecting cries of anguish to start when CentOS 8 became unsupported at the strike of midnight on New Year’s Eve, were likely surprised when January came and went with nary a whisper about the loss of a Linux distribution that months earlier had powered millions of servers running mission critical workloads in data centers around the world.
A year earlier Red Hat, which had sponsored the 18-year-old project for the better part of a decade and owned the CentOS trademark, announced it was closing the project down, while keeping the CentOS name for a different, if similar, distro.
Mir-kiosk was released in 2018. It provided a black screen with a mouse pointer, letting you run any application you want, instantly turning it into a kiosk application. It was designed to help people unlock a full kiosk mode for Linux embedded devices. And as such, it supported several projects on its way.
It was used in many devices around the world, including smart mirrors, point of sales in countrywide food chains, healthcare kiosks, and more. Since it was open source, our community also used mir-kiosk to develop exciting embedding applications, such as arcade consoles and smart hubs screens. And it is thanks to this production-grade experience, that we now deliver Ubuntu Frame.
Octavo Systems’ 40 x 20.5mm “OSDZU3” SiP module runs Linux on the FPGA-equipped, quad -A53 Zynq UltraScale ZU3 MPSoC with 2GB LPDDR4. An “OSDZU3-REF” carrier adds GbE, DP, SATA, USB, and PMODs.
Octavo Systems has brought its System-in-Package expertise to its most challenging SoC yet, the AMD-Xilinx Zynq UltraScale MPSoC. The 40 x 20.5mm OSDZU3 is about 60 percent smaller than “an equivalent system design with discrete components,” says Octavo. Previous Octavo SiPs have included the TI AM3358 based, 27 x 27mm OSD3358 used on the BeagleBone Black Wireless and the STM32MP1 powered, 18 x 18mm OSD32MP15x.
I'm handing my Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (8th gen) to the employer I'm currently leaving. I already have an old Asus x205TA that's been lying around unloved for a couple of years. As I expect my next employer, whichever that may be, to give me a new laptop I don't want to have two laptops lying around unused. Besides I really love that old thing. It's slow, of course, and I've had some very frustrating experiences with it for things that should be common use cases. Immense lag when scrolling through an .odt document that contains pictures, for example.
Microsoft has found itself in hot water after a whistleblower report has alleged that some of its employees were bribing companies in Africa and the Middle East.
In a post on Lioness, former employee Yasser Elabd said the tech giant had a number of employees involved in corrupt practices. These practices included using local partners to sell Microsoft products.
In response to the post, Microsoft said it has fired several employees after an investigation into the issues.
Elabd worked at Microsoft for 20 years between 1998 and 2018, but was eventually fired after, he says, trying to stop bribes from happening. In the Lioness post, he said he saw a $40,000 payment that didn’t seem right.
A German company long criticized for helping governments spy on communications has shut down operations and filed for insolvency, according to authorities.
FinFisher GmbH sold spyware to law enforcement and intelligence agencies that could be used to hack into computers and mobile phones and then steal data and secretly record conversations. Human rights groups accused the company of providing the technology to authoritarian governments who used it to target activists and journalists.
I don’t understand the obsession with “qualified” supreme court justices. I don’t care about qualifications, I care about a judge’s ideological leanings. You don’t even need to be a lawyer to be a Supreme Court Justice.
Eleven years ago saw the first time ever that a country's entire internet went dark. It was 2011 - in the midst of the Arab Spring unrest - when Egyptian citizens couldn't access the web for five long days.
Now, internet shutdowns are becoming common practice among authoritative governments worldwide. And VPNs have emerged as one of the best weapons for fighting back against this worrying trend.
“Since we began tracking government-initiated internet shutdowns, their use has proliferated at a truly alarming pace,” said #KeepItOn Lead Felicia Anthonio to Jigsaw - the Google unit exploring digital threats to societies.
A project run by digital rights NGO Access Now, the #KeepItOn coalition started its battle against internet shutdowns in 2016. The group documented at least 564 blackouts around the world between 2018 and 2020.
