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The following tutorial will teach you how to install the latest bleeding-edge 510 Nvidia Graphic Card Drivers for Debian 11 Bullseye.

Brian Kernighan shares his inspiration and research behind the latest edition of his book, Understanding the Digital World.

Ansible is a simple and powerful open source automation tool that can streamline many of your IT infrastructure operations. You can automate simple tasks like installing packages, or complex workflows such as deploying a clustered solution with multiple nodes or patching your operating system with many steps. Whether the workflows are simple or complex, you need to integrate appropriate optimization techniques into the Ansible playbook content.

Gamebuntu, the app that promised to make gaming on Ubuntu painless for Linux newcomers by installing all that a gamer needs, has reached maturity with version 1.0 and boasts a new design.

antiX Linux is a lightweight desktop Linux distribution based on Debian for 32 and 64 bit Intel-AMD x86 compatible architectures and is fully systemd-free. The project releases its latest bug-fix, updated version antiX 19.5 based on stable Debian 10 "Buster".

The Electronic Frontiers Foundation is attempting to have some DMCA provisions declared unconstitutional by the courts on First Amendment grounds.

There is a very preliminary FOSS Start menu replacement for Windows 11 – but it's not quite there yet.

We can use multiple tools to monitor system statistics, but if you are looking for virtual memory, use vmstat, which support numerous options and parameters.

Linux users on Tuesday got a major dose of bad news—a 12-year-old vulnerability in a system tool called Polkit gives attackers unfettered root privileges on machines running any major distribution of the open source operating system.

Imagine this: somebody has broken your heart and what you want is to write your feelings in a journal without distraction. Did you get the idea? No? Neither do I. I am not heartbroken (or maybe I am and I don’t want to tell you). But I would still like to show you a wonderful minimalistic open-source, note-taking application to keep journal entries. This handy little program is Jrnl and it lets you create, search and view journal entries right in the terminal.

A newly disclosed vulnerability in a widely installed Linux program can be easily exploited for local privilege escalation, researchers from cyber firm Qualys said today.

Void Linux is an independently developed, rolling-release, general-purpose operating system. XBPS is the default command line package manager tool in Void Linux. Here’s how to use it to install, remove, update, and upgrade packages in Void Linux in a breeze.

Phosh, a pure Wayland shell for GNOME on mobile devices, has been updated today to version 0.15.0, a major release that brings new features, improvements, and many bug fixes.

If you’d like to use Arch Linux but don’t want to build everything from the ground up, we list five of the best Arch-based Linux distros.

Covid mandates have forced Scale organizers to reschedule the Southern California-based conference, which has also necessitated a change in venue.

This desktop notifier reports minimum overnight temperature and the latest temperature as well - just what I need to know for my early morning walk. Also: the third and final version of "A Data Cleaner's Cookbook" is now online.

Vulkan, the open standard and cross-platform modern 3D graphics API used by cutting-edge games and demanding applications, has been updated today to version 1.3, a major release that introduces new features and several improvements.

Working on Wayland and Weston color management and HDR support has been full of learning new concepts and terms. Many of them crucial for understanding how color works, and what the values in a pixel actually mean. With color knowledge being surprisingly scarce, Pekka Paalanen has written "A Pixel's Color", an introduction to people who are already familiar with computer graphics in general, images in memory, and maybe window systems, but never really thought what the values in a pixel actually mean or what they are doing wrong with them.

Azure Virtual Network is one of the most important resources to create a private network in Azure. It enables many types of Azure services to communicate with each other securely. In this article, we will see the steps to create a Virtual Network and how to add a subnet to it.

One of the primary functions of computers is to parse data. Some data is easier to parse than other data, and voice input continues to be a work in progress. There have been many improvements in the area in recent years, though, and one of them is in the form of DeepSpeech, a project by Mozilla, the foundation that maintains the Firefox web browser. DeepSpeech is a voice-to-text command and library, making it useful for users who need to transform voice input into text and developers who want to provide voice input for their applications.