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Devs and maintainers getting paid – but not to concentrate on security. Open-source software has always been more secure than proprietary software, but that doesn't mean it's "secure." To lock it down, we need to invest serious cash in developers and maintainers.

Sometimes the process to delete Kubernetes namespaces gets hung up, and the command never completes. Here's how to troubleshoot terminating namespaces.

If, like me, you were a computer-science graduate student who cut your teeth on Berkeley Unix – complete with the first open-source implementation of TCP/IP – you know Section 8 as the cryptic System Maintenance Commands section of the Unix User's Manual.

Swift is to iOS what Java is to Android. Swift development started in July 2010 by Chris Lattner(same creator of LLVM and clang), with the eventual collaboration of many other Apple programmers. Swift was based on ideas from languages ??such as: Objective-C , Rust , Haskell , Ruby , Python , C# , CLU and many others .

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a desktop sharing protocol that allows you to control a computer remotely using the VNC client software. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install a VNC server on the Debian 11 Bullseye. This tutorial uses TigerVNC packages to enable the VNC server and we will secure the VNC connection using an SSH tunnel.

You’ve switched on your computer, preparing to do some work, edit a document, mix a composition, or just play a game... but something goes wrong. Ubuntu won't boot. Sadly, as reliable as Linux is in general, and as popular as Ubuntu is, sometimes it runs into problems, just like Windows 10 or macOS. In most cases, you'll be able to work around this. Whether you're using Ubuntu desktop or Ubuntu Server, here’s what to do if Ubuntu doesn’t boot.

Doom Emacs is an easy and approachable way to get started with Emacs. Learn how it works and how to install and configure it today.

Over the past 18 months, Collabora has been on a roller-coaster ride developing futex2, a new set of system calls. As part of this prolonged effort, the futex_waitv() syscall has now successfully landed in Linux 5.16. A followup of the initial futex syscall, this new interface aims to overcome long term issues that have been limiting the way applications use the Linux kernel. But what exactly is futex? This series of posts will help answer that and other questions around this tricky function.

January 2022 was another excellent month for Enable Sysadmin. During the month, we published 23 new articles and received nearly 798,000 reads from more than 505,000 readers across the site.

A Mac-using client wanted to save a Microsoft Word .docx as a plain text document. The .docx was stored in an iCloud folder. Downloading and opening the file in Word for Mac, the client chose "Save without formatting (.txt)". What could go wrong?

The KDE team announced the KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS edition, which is available to download and install. If you are planning to upgrade from the prior version - here we give you quick steps to upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.24 from 5.23.

While Linux distributions tend to make great servers, you may be wondering if Arch Linux would be a good choice for a server, given its rolling-release nature. It could be if you wanted to, with some caveats.

Generally, you consider it a good thing when people want to use your application. However, when the application runs on a server, there's a cost for popularity. With users come increased demands on resources, and at some point, you may find that you need to scale your app. One option is to throw more servers at the problem, establish a load balancer like Nginx, and let the demand sort itself out.

Today the KDE Community releases Plasma 5.24, a Long Term Support (LTS) release that will receive updates until Plasma 6 succeeds it. Here's what's new!

The ability to write code is a huge differentiator for every job role in an enterprise Linux environment. As an Operations and DevOps manager, I was constantly challenged to improve my team’s programming skills, and the team genuinely wanted to be more proficient. But how?

Learn about commands that can be used to output details about the Linux Operating System you are using.

Google Pagespeed Module is an open-source module for optimizing your websites under the Nginx and Apache web-server. In this tutorial, we will show you how to build the Nginx Pagespeed module on the latest Debian 11 Bullseye.

Ever started using a new computer, by choice or because the old one let the magic smoke out, and got frustrated at how long it took to get everything just right? Even worse, ever spent some time reconfiguring your shell prompt, then realizing you liked it better before?

The latest version of the popular mail transfer agent, Postfix 3.7, makes maillog_file feature even more useful. Here's what's new!

This brief guide explains how to skip a package from being upgraded in Arch Linux, and its variants such as EndeavourOS and Manjaro Linux.