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Arch Linux, arguably the most widely known rolling-release distribution, just celebrated its 20th anniversary. The project has commemorated its first public release, 0.1, with a snapshot of its original homepage.

In this tutorial, we will cover how to use the ip command to display or configure information about network interfaces, routing, and IP addresses.

SSHGuard is an open-source daemon that is used to enhance the security of ssh as well as other network protocols. In this tutorial, you will learn to install SSHGuard and configure the system to prevent brute force attacks in Ubuntu 20.04.

I've used the sudo command for years, and one of my favorite features is how it saves a record of everything happening in a terminal while running a command. This feature has been available for over a decade. However, sudo 1.9 introduced central session recording collection, allowing you to check all administrative access to your hosts on your network at a single location and play back sessions like a movie.

Huge step towards the project's goal of being a drop-in replacement for older Microsoft operating systems. ReactOS, the open-source project for creating a binary-compatible drop-in replacement for Windows, has crossed a crucial milestone with a first look at symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support.…

Mekotronics is prepping an “R58X” mini-PC that features on an octa-core RK3588 with up to 16GB RAM, 2x GbE, WiFi/BT, HDMI in and out, DP, and 4x USB plus eMMC, SATA, and M.2 storage. Shenzhen-based Mekotronics has posted several preliminary shopping/product pages (without prices) for an industrial temperature mini-PC and signage player that runs Linux […]

The seventy-six installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on March 13th, 2022, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Every file system used in production has tools to try to recover from system crashes. To provide a better infrastructure for those tools, Collabora's kernel team developed FAN_FS_ERROR, a new fanotify event which monitors error notifications.

Lynis is a free and open-source security auditing tool and released as a GPL licensed project and is available for Linux and Unix-based Operating systems. In this tutorial, we will try to explore the Lynis audit report and learn to apply some of the reforms it suggests. Let's now get started with this guide.

APT – It’s likely that you’ve typed it hundreds, if not thousands of times. So why not use Nala to make things easier? Nala is a frontend for APT so that you can have prettier output, faster downloads of packages, and a history. Here’s how to use it.

Vecow’s “ESOM-MT-500” module runs Linux on MediaTek’s octa-core -A73 and -A53 i500 SoC with up to 4GB RAM and 16GB eMMC. A dev kit extends the module with 2x LAN, WiFi/BT, HDMI, MIPI-DSI/CSI, 2x USB, and mini-PCIe. Last week when we covered Vecow’s first compute module, the Elkhart Lake powered, Compact Type 6 VCOM-1600, we […]

Images are the fundamental component of docker. In this guide, we will discuss what docker images are, how to build them, how to manage them, and how to use them.

The possibilities for Raspberry Pi projects continue to perpetuate this Pi Day! The beloved single-board computer recently turned ten years old. To celebrate, we put together a list of recent Raspberry Pi tutorials written by members of the Opensource.com community.   read more

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Autodesk AutoCAD is computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting software. It’s used in industry, by architects, project managers, engineers, graphic designers, city planners and other professionals.

Linux kernel development boss Linus Torvalds’ prediction that Linux 5.17 would be released this week “unless something surprising comes up” has come to pass.

The IPFire Project released a new update to their popular IPFire hardened open-source Linux-powered firewall distribution based on the latest long-term supported Linux 5.15 kernel series.

Javier Jardón announced today the general availability of the Release Candidate (RC) milestone of the forthcoming GNOME 42 desktop environment for public testing.

In this article, we’ll explain how to enable Ubuntu Advantage on desktop machines and link it with your Ubuntu LTS installation so that you can enjoy this extended period of support.

The KDE Project announced today the general availability of KDE Frameworks 5.92 as the monthly update for March 2022 of this open-source collection of more than 80 add-on libraries to Qt providing common functionality for the Plasma desktop and related apps.