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In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install the latest version of AnyDesk on your Ubuntu 20.04 operating system.

Ansible is an open-source IT automation tool for continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates, software deployment, configuration management, and orchestration of more advanced IT tasks. This tutorial shows several ways to speed up an Ansible Playbook.

Version 4.22 of The Amnesic Incognito Live System, better known as Tails, rolled out recently. The new version is entirely focused on solving the most important issues in the Tor Connection assistant to make it more robust and easier to use.

Automation is a big part of a sysadmin's job—any time you can avoid manual intervention means you can save time and decrease the risk of human error. Ansible is one of the most popular tools for automation, so if you want to learn new ideas and best practices around automating IT, AnsibleFest is an excellent place to start.

I am posting this Howto due to currently available instructions on the Internet don't focus the user's attention on installation packages "ovmf" and "virt-viewer" on the most recent release Manjaro KDE. Skipping mentioned packages causes issues with Remote Viewer (Cockpit Console) and the ability to deploy KVM guests in UEFI mode

The OpenSSL Software Foundation released a completely refreshed version of the OpenSSL software, that handles much of the encrypted communications on the Internet. After over 7,500 commits and contributions from over 350 different authors, OpenSSL 3.0 is finally here.

Alien is a command line package converter that converts between different Linux package formats such as Red Hat rpm, Debian deb, Stampede slp, Slackware tgz, and Solaris pkg etc.

Debian-based Tails amnesic incognito live system has been updated today to version 4.22, a release that adds various improvements to the new Tor Connection assistant, updated components, and many bug fixes.

As per NASA, “A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out”. Something similar exists in the Linux universe as well - it discards anything written to it and when read, just returns an EOF (end-of-file). It’s a special file which is also referred to as null device - /dev/null

This post explains two simple ways to send an editable command to a prompt without executing the command.

Guy Podjarny on the challenges of crafting and shipping secure code. Interview In an interview with Snyk founder and president Guy Podjarny on the challenges of secure application development, he told us: "Any solution that predicates on developers becoming security experts is doomed to fail."…

When you're running Linux on a desktop or server, sometimes you need to identify the hardware in that system. One command used for this is lspci. It works by showing all devices attached to the PCI bus. It's provided by the pciutils package and is available for a wide range of Linux and BSD-based operating systems.

2DayGeeK: This quick tutorial describes how to boot a CentOS 7 system into rescue mode from Installation DVD/ISO.

A few hours ahead of the launch of the Firefox 92 release, Mozilla promoted today the upcoming Firefox 93 web browser to the beta channel for public testing.

It's easy to take Linux commands for granted. They come bundled with the system when you install Linux, and we often don't question why they're there. Some of the basic commands, such as cd, kill, and echo aren't always independent applications but are actually built into your shell. Others, such as ls, mv, and cat are part of a core utility package (often GNU coreutils specifically). But there are always alternatives in the world of open source, and one of the most interesting is BusyBox.

ClamAV is an open source cross-platform antivirus software which is used in a variety of situations including email scanning, web scanning, and endpoint security. ClamAV 0.104 has been released a few days ago with major changes and new LTS (Long Term Support) program.

Microsoft has updated Python support in Visual Studio Code, introducing editing in a web browser. The company has also archived its open-source Python language server in favour of the closed-source Pylance. The Python Extension has over 41 million installs, according to the stats, versus just over 3 million for a third-party Python extension, which uses pyLint or flake8 for the linter (both open source).

The HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) drivers have been updated to version 3.21.8, a release that adds support for some recent GNU/Linux distributions and new HP printers.

Open source business model problems for modern-day HyperCard. Interview An easy to use programming language that was made open source in 2014 after a successful crowdfunding campaign is going back to closed source after too many customers switched to using it for free.…

Check out this tutorial to learn about how to take Integer input from command line in Python 3 and Python 2.