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Axiomtek’s 3.5-inch “CAPA55R” SBC runs Linux or Win 10 on an 11th Gen U-series CPU and provides triple display support, GbE, 2.5GbE, SATA, USB 3.2 Gen2, and 3x M.2 slots.

SaltStack is a free, open-source, and Python-based automation and configuration management software. In this article, I will show you how to install SaltStack Master and Minion on Debian 11.

DevOps transformation extends beyond development and operations teams. It's also relevant to other parts of the organization. These new collaborators can offer new insights to the development team seeking to maintain alignment with customer needs.

Intel announced a move on Wednesday that will inject fresh energy into a Linux kernel project that started close to two decades ago – and was lacking funding and contributors.

nmon consolidates real-time and historical performance data from different system resources, making it a fantastic tool to have in your sysadmin belt.

Apart from mass hype, what can we actually expect when the Steam Deck releases tomorrow? Here's what's going on. Starting at 10 AM PST / 6PM UTC, Valve will begin sending out emails to people in the first batch of reservations. So keep an eye on your emails and Steam app notifications. Once you get it, you have 72 hours to make the full purchase otherwise it goes to the next person in the queue.

It appears that the diminutive Linux distribution Slax is not dead. It's been a while, but version 11.2 has finally popped out. By "a while" we mean more than two years, according to the maintainer. However, it's a welcome update, even if some of its fans might have moved on to alternatives during its hiatus.

While most of our attention here at DistroWatch is focused on changes and releases in the Linux community we also enjoy talking about the various flavours of BSD. As it turns out, some of you are interested in the BSD projects too. This week, in our Questions and Answers column, we clear up some confusion about how projects like FreeBSD (and its cousins in the BSD world) operate.

Garuda Linux, an Arch-based distro, is the one to heed. From simplifying Arch's learning curve to providing a series of different desktop environments, Garuda Linux has it all. This aesthetically pleasing distro is every Linux user's delight, as it's relatively easy to install on your PC.

When you want to grant administrative access to some of your users while controlling and checking what they do on your systems, you use sudo. However, even with sudo, there are quite a few unseen issues—just think about giving out shell access. Recent sudo releases added features that let you see these issues and even control them. For example, you can turn on more detailed and easier-to-process log messages and log each command executed in a shell session.

Juk is the default open source music player for the KDE Plasma Desktop on Linux. Create playlists, use tagging, and play your favorite tunes on Linux.

Nearly six years after its last release, FreeDOS 1.3 came out at the weekend… in case you're feeling nostalgic for a 1980s enterprise-grade OS. DOS ain't dead. Although the long history of MS-DOS officially ended with version 6.22 in 1994, there have long been multiple other DOS-compatible OSes out there. And unlike all the others, FreeDOS is open source, legal, legitimate, and free to use.

Fail2ban is a free and open-source Intrusion Prevention System written in Python. It is used to protect your system against brute-force attacks. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Fail2Ban firewall on Alma Linux 8.

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, in partnership with LF Networking and LF Edge, ??today announced the Open Networking & Edge Executive Forum (ONEEF) will take place virtually April 12-14, 2022. The Open Networking & Edge Executive Forum (spring) and Summit (fall) are the industry’s premier open networking and edge computing events focused on end to end solutions powered by open source.

DevOps and DevSecOps require agile documentation practices to deliver quality documentation on time with an iterative software delivery cycle. It's a similar journey to DevOps with a move to automation and a more agile approach to content. If documentation is only now entering your organization's DevOps discussions, it's time to catch your documentation practices up to DevOps.

Apache Guacamole is a free and open-source remote desktop gateway that allows you to connect to your computer/server remotely using different protocols such as SSH, RDP, and VNC. In this tutorial, you'll install and configure the Apache Guacamole to a Debian 11 Bullseye.

Take a look at the software, laptop, server, smartphone, and other tech choices that keep this sysadmin productive while working from home in 2022.

GNOME has a tendency for minimalist design. It's a beautiful desktop experience, and holds the honor of being the first free desktop that's ever elicited vocalized admiration from someone looking over my shoulder as I use Linux. Then again (and pardon the armchair philosophizing), you can't have minimalism without complexity, and KDE is well known for being very customizable. I thought it might be fun to put KDE configuration to the test and try to re-implement, at least superficially, the GNOME experience in the KDE Plasma Desktop.

Web forums allow its users to connect with one another via posting messages. Forum posts can be seen by any number of anonymous visitors, but to post messages, you need to have an account in that particular web forum. Within a web forum, you can either create a new post or post replies on other users’ posts, also called Threads. Many web forums go well beyond typical threads and messages with advanced features and tools. Some of these extras may include blogging, file management, photo galleries, and much more.

Lynis is a free and open-source security auditing tool released as a GPL licensed project and is available for Linux and Unix-based Operating systems. In this tutorial, we will provide instructions on how to perform a Lynis security audit on a remote system.