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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.

Some big changes happening for PipeWire's session manager! With the upcoming 0.5 release, WirePlumber's configuration system will be moving to a JSON syntax to define settings, bringing a more unified configuration approach across the PipeWire ecosystem.

Here’s how to install and configure Tomcat 10.1 with Nginx for reverse proxy and Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on AlmaLinux/Rocky Linux 9.

Dokuwiki is an open-source wiki software written in PHP, and it doesn’t require a database. It was developed by Andreas Gohr in 2004. Dokuwiki works on plain text files, and its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki. With its simple yet powerful syntax, users can create structured texts easily, and it ensures the data files remain readable outside the wiki. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Dokuwiki on Ubuntu 22.04.

Zorin OS 16.2 has been released today as the second major update to the Zorin OS 16 series of this friendly and accessible alternative to the Windows operating system based on Ubuntu Linux.

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.

Canonical published today the first Linux kernel security update for its recently released Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) operating system series to address recently discovered Wi-Fi Stack security vulnerabilities.

With GNOME 43 and PipeWire, you will be using the most modern software technologies that are there for Linux along with the most updated Ubuntu version.

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 […]

The developers of the Debian-based SparkyLinux distribution have re-generated the ISO images of their SparkyLinux 2022.10 rolling release to upgrade the kernel package to Linux 6.0.

Step-by-step guide on installing the latest Python 3.11 in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and related distros, with instructions to set default.

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.

This comprehensive article shows how to use the yay command to easily install packages from the AUR (Arch User Repository) in Arch Linux.

kmon is a text-based tool to help you manage the Linux kernel modules and monitor the kernel activities. With this tool, you can load, unload, and blacklist modules, as well as show a module’s information.

Review of Ubuntu Unity 22.10 Kinetic Kudu, which debuts as the official flavour, brings Unity7 and gives the best lightweight performance.

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...