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ModSecurity is a free and open-source firewall tool supported by various web servers, such as Apache, Nginx, and IIS. In this tutorial, I will explain how to set up ModSecurity with Apache on Ubuntu 22.04.

We appreciate power but sometimes it's about getting up and running sooner Column The fact that I like the Linux desktop will come as no surprise to anyone who reads my work. I mean, I was once the lead writer and editor for a long-gone publication called Linux Desktop. So why is it as I sit at Kubecon North America in Detroit that I'm writing this on an HP Chromebook x360?…

NTP or Network Time Protocol is a networking protocol for time and clock synchronization on the computer network. In this guide, you will learn how to install and to use Chrony on the Rocky Linux server.

Fedora Linux 37 is going to be late; very late. Here’s why. As you may have heard, the OpenSSL project announced a version due to be released on Tuesday. It will include a fix for a critical-severity bug. We won’t know the specifics of the issue until Tuesday’s release, but it could be significant. As […]

We don't have the details yet, but we can safely say that come Nov. 1, everyone -- and I mean everyone -- will need to patch OpenSSL 3.x.

Everyone has to join Discourse… although you can still participate via email The GNOME Project is preparing to shut down its mailing lists due to problems maintaining the project's GNU Mailman instance - which relies on Python 2 - and a lack of moderators.…

The Apache module mod_wsgi provides an interface for hosting Python-based web applications. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and configure of mod_wsgi using Apache web server on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

It's been fun, but Linus Torvalds thinks it's time for 486 Linux to leave computers behind and go to museums.

This week, TUXEDO launched two variations of their latest InfinityBook Pro 16 laptop built around the i7-12700H Intel core processor. TUXEDO’s high-end laptop supports up to 64GB RAM, 2x M.2 2280 slots, Wi-Fi 6, 80Wh battery and other optional features. The Max Performance and the Workstation edition feature the same 12th Gen processor from Intel: […]

Lua isn't an object-oriented programming language, but a scripting language utilizing C functions and a C-like syntax. However, there's a cool hack you can use within Lua code to make Lua act like an object-oriented language when you need it to be. The key is in the Lua table construct, and this article demonstrates how to use a Lua table as a stand-in for an object-oriented class.

This HOW-TO describes the process of implementing Perfect Forward Secrecy with the NGINX web-server on Debian and Ubuntu systems. The process can readily be adapted to other GNU/Linux systems.

Monitoring your virtualized server environments is the ideal way to ensure optimal utilization of hardware resources and the best possible performance of your IT infrastructure. In this tutorial, I will show you how to monitor your vSphere with the open-source monitoring tool Checkmk in just a few minutes.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a Linux kernel flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and instructed federal agencies to address it within three weeks.

Well, these distros are all about continual reinvention, after all. Rolling Rhino, a project that turned Ubuntu into a rolling-release distribution, is restarting development under a new name: Rhino Linux.…

As a staff product manager for Mozilla’s security and privacy team, Tony Amaral-Cinotto thinks a lot about how you can protect your personal information, including, most recently, your phone number.  Firefox Relay has been protecting email addresses from spammers since 2020. Tony’s team just released a new feature applying the same idea to your phone […]

Building your own initial RAMdisk? That's insecure! Lennart Poettering's latest blog post proposes moving the Linux boot process into a "Brave New Trusted Boot World" of cryptographically signed Unified Kernel Images.…

A few years ago, I wrote a command-line math program for FreeDOS called VMATH. It was capable of performing only extremely simple mathematical operations on very small unsigned integers. With some recent interest in basic math in the FreeDOS community, I improved VMATH to provide basic math support on signed 64-bit integers.

The [ command, often called a "test," is a command from the GNU Core Utils package, and initiates a conditional statement in Bash. Its function is exactly the same as the test command. When you want to execute a command only when something is either true or false, use the [ or the test command. However, there's a significant difference between [ or test and [[, and there's a technical difference between those commands and your shell's versions of them...

Latest release brings better speed and more comprehensible error messages Python 3.11.0, the latest iteration of the exceedingly popular programming language, debuted on Monday, to the delight of software developers who care about such things.…