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Recently a security vulnerability has been discovered that affect many Debian based Linux distributions. Max Justicz has discovered a vulnerability on APT package manager earlier which allows intruder to use APT package manager to execute arbitrary code during the update or the installation process through the package manager as network man-in-the-middle to execute the malicious code.

The last maintenance for the long term support release Debian 8.11 (Jessie) has been released. Debian 8.11 brings several bug fixes and resolved various security issues. Check the release notes and update instructions.

Having a problem on managing partition with NTFS File System on RHEL7 / CentOS 7 !! You are in the right place. Here we will go through how to mount partitions with NTFS file systems, format NTFS partitions as well.

Calibre is a free and open source E-Book manager for cross platforms. The development team announced the new maintenance release Calibre 3.26.1. It brings several bugs fixes and some new features for managing book listing and book editor as well. Check the key features, the recent bug fixes and installation instructions.

Mozilla Firefox Test Pilot program is intended to provide a new experimental features on the latest release of Mozilla Firefox. Here’s a new highly demanded feature many users have been waiting for is now available on Test Pilot program for Mozilla Firefox, It’s Mozilla Firefox Side View which allows you to browse websites side by side.

Partitioning hard disk with old traditional methods is still commonly used by many users. However, taking advantage of LVM (Logical Volume Manager) to create LVM partition and manage multiple hard disks specially on a scalable severs running Linux operating system with the ability to extend or reduce the size of the logical volume and the volume groups, creating snapshot backups of logical volume, encrypting entire system based on LVM and more.

Early this month we had posted about the final development release for Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) and since the last development release Ubuntu has received many bug fixes and several improvements to the user interface for Gnome Shell Desktop environment. So, let’s check the key features of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and Download options for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver).

GIMP is a free and open source software for creating and editing image content. The development team has just announced the new stable release GIMP 2.10.0. It’s been almost six years of heavy development since the earlier stable release GIMP 2.8.x back in 2012. So, let's check what's new in GIMP 2.10.0.

Vim is one of the best and commonly used text editor and could be used as IDE on Linux and MAC OS X. There are many Vim tips could help you to get your work done much more quicker and efficient if you are using Vim as your text editor. So, let’s check some of Vim Tips that could be helpful for your daily usage.

Krita is a Free and Open-Source drawing and image editing software for creating a high quality and professional paintings. Krita 3.2.0 Has Been Released and it brought some interesting features and bug fixes. Check the key features of Krita 3.2.0.

Open Broadcaster Software project has announced a new release (OBS Studio 20.0) Capturing and Streaming Software for Linux. It Brought new connection features to lower the latency for Twitch and Mixer streaming services, a new modular User interface for customizing various elements on OBS Studio, and many more features.

Calibre is free and Open-Source E-Book manager For Linux, MAC OS X, and Microsoft Windows. It comes with advanced editing capabilities for many file formats and supports the major E-Reader devices. Calibre 3.6 Has Been Released and it Brings some new features, added a new news source for delivering news feed directly to Calibre and fixed multiple bugs.

The Weekly development release Wine 2.14 has been Released. It brings improvement to Android Graphics drivers for overlapping objects using Z-order, also it comes with several bug fixes for many Games.

Debian development team has announced the first maintenance release Debian 9.1 (Stretch). It brought several bug fixes and security updates for various packages. Download links for ISO images will be available soon.

VirtualBox is a free and open-source virtualization software for the x86 platform. The last maintenance release of 5.1 branch has featured more support for AMD Ryzen processors, emulating more SSE2 instructions and included many bug fixes.

A step by step guide for recovering deleted files which still have running processes in Linux system by taking advantage of hard links inside file descriptor directory.

Opera introducing a new feature to its desktop web browser will improve the web browsing experience for many users. A new native Ad-blocking integration comes with the development release of Opera desktop web browser.

Have you ever wondered how to access the internet anonymously or protecting your privacy against internet surveillance! without the effort of setting up a VPN and relay connections. Tails Linux distribution is a quite good choice for you.

PCMan is one of the most lightweight file manager for many Linux distributions. PCManFM comes as the default file manager for LXDE “Lightweight X11 desktop environment”.

Uget is a free and open-source GTK+ 3 download manager for Linux and Windows operating systems. Uget download manager comes with many great and useful features. The latest version of Uget version 1.10.4 is now available to install on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr using PPA.