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If you ever wanted to know what GECOS is and why it's important to you, here are the answers

FileZilla is a free open source FTP software tool, allowing a user to transfer files from a local computer to a remote computer. In this article we will show you how to setup a connection to your SFTP server using SFTP in FileZilla by using password or SSH key-based authentication.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to upgrade Debian 10 Buster to Debian 11 successfully.

The new upcoming release of Debian 11 codenamed Bullseye is scheduled to be released on August 14, 2021. The upgrade that has been in testing for the past few years brings updates to many well-known packages such as LibreOffice being upgraded to version 7.0, GNUcash is upgraded to 4.4 and the introduction of new driverless scanning and printing amongst a range of many new features.

LEMP is a collection of open-source software that is commonly used together to serve web applications. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install LEMP (Nginx, MariaDB, PHP 8.0) on Rocky Linux 8.

Thundercomm’s “TurboX C865 SOM” and dev kit and eInfochips’ “EIC-QCS8250-210” Mini-ITX run Android 10 on Qualcomm’s QCS8250, an IoT variant of the Snapdragon 865. We also look at the new QCS4290 and Wi-Fi 6E ready QCS6490 SoCs. Last week, we reported on Thundercomm’s TurboX CM2290 and C2290 SOMs, which run Android or Linux on Qualcomm’s […]

A new important Linux kernel security update was released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS Linux 7 users to address several vulnerabilities and also fix some bugs.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install PHP 8.0 on Rocky Linux 8 from Remi repository.

PHP 8.0 is a major update of the PHP language released on November 26, 2020, a giant leap forward from the existing PHP 7.4 release. The new PHP contains many new features and optimizations, including named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expression, null safe operators, JIT and improvements in the type system, error handling, and consistency.

This quick guide explains some of the steps which may come in handy to recover an Arch Linux Install.

A screen reader is a vital tool that helps individuals who are blind or low-vision read digital text. Unfortunately, not all file formats receive the same level of support from screen readers. For example, while PDF files have accessibility features that you can use, they are often not the preferred file format for screen reader users. Between line breaks, multiple columns, symbols, and images, screen readers can have trouble reading PDFs in a cohesive way to their users. read more

In Linux the shell is the command interpreter in an operating system that executes other programs. There are many shells available for Linux, but in this article, we only include the top five Linux shells and thoroughly discuss their features.

Programming blunder is the second such snafu this month. Bug of the week Google has fixed a bug in Chrome OS version 91.0.4472.165 that surfaced on Monday and prevented some users from being able to login to their systems.…

The Linux Foundation has posted a schedule for its Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference, to be held (live this time) on Sep. 27 to Oct. 1 in Seattle. RISC-V is a big topic, and there is a keynote on the Martian Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter. The Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux […]

In this guide, you’ll learn how to use pacman on Arch Linux, Manjaro, and other distros based on Arch. Read on to master pacman with commands to install packages, remove packages, update the system, etc.

Jitsi Meet is an open-source application that can be self-hosted in your own environment. In this article, we’ll share the details of how to get Jitsi up and running

ClamAV is an open-source and free antivirus software toolkit able to detect many types of malicious software, including viruses, trojans, malware, adware, rootkits and other malicious threats. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to configure ClamAV on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The same principle will work for the newer version Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo).

It may not be the season of summer where you are, but summer reading lists are quintessential and somewhat cozy no matter what part of the world you live in. Did you get our summer reading list?

If you are running Arch Linux in a system for a longer time, things can break due to its rolling release nature combined with your hardware support. If you use the AUR Helper Yay, then sometimes, yay can be corrupted due to several installations, upgrade of other packages. This quick guide is to help you to fix yay error – while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.12.

Firewalld is front-end controller for iptables and nftables used to implement persistent network traffic rules. Ten years after its first release, Firewalld reached version 1.0. The biggest change is removing Python 2 support.

This post is an immediate followup for the most recent post at Lxer.com regarding return of one string. Consider the task already been treated with 2D vector and dumping the content of vector to disk file. This approach would allow us to solve the same task via to straight forward returning vector of strings from C++ procedure to Python module.

Linux Malware Detect (LMD), also known as Maldet, is a malware scanner for Linux released under the GNU GPLv2 license. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to configure Maldet on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The same principle will work for the newer version Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo).