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Bleachbit is an open-source utility that helps you in cleaning, optimizing, and protecting your privacy. It takes care of cleaning your disk space, browser history, delete cookies, shreds temporary files and directories, delete logs, and discard junk from your system. This tool has evolved over time and has added more features.

ModSecurity is a free, open-source, and most popular web application firewall (WAF) that protects your web application against a wide range of Layer 7 attacks. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install ModSecurity 3 with Apache inside a Docker container.

The biggest challenge? "Backwards compatibility of features that we might not even know we have". Interview Python creator Guido van Rossum last week introduced a project to make CPython, the official implementation, five times faster in four years. Now Mark Shannon – one of the three initial members of the project – has opened up about the why and the how.…

Using gdm-tools, you'll be able to easily change the GDM login screen (greeter) theme and background image, backup / restore the default GDM theme and optionally reset everything to default, and extract the default GDM theme for use in "weird" GNOME sessions, such as the Ubuntu session.

So, I was searching around for a ready-to-use Arch Linux with only Window Manager options and found this Archcraft OS. Here's a quick review of Archcraft OS, in case if you are planning to try it out.

In this article, I will show you aws-cli commands to manage Cloudwatch from the terminal. This guide will help you get started with using aws-cli for creating, managing Cloudwatch alarms.

SQLite is not enough for handling large Rails applications. This guide explains how to use PostgreSQL with Ruby on Rails application in Ubuntu Linux.

WebAssembly, the stack-based virtual machine, is expanding well beyond websites to become a useful Rust and JavaScript programming tool for many programs.

Google Pixel phone not required. Google has flicked "publish" on its Android 12 beta, with the bleeding-edge OS winging its way to enrolled devices.…

Exploring methods for getting data into scripts and controlling the script's execution path for better automation and script management.

With our world being increasingly driven by apps and the microservices that support them, adoption of WebAssembly (Wasm) continues to accelerate. WebAssembly is a stack-based virtual machine that can greatly improve the performance and capabilities of websites and, despite the name, nearly any other kind of non-web platform you can imagine. Besides making browsers much […]

Service meshes have proliferated, and they aren't compatible. Will a Kubernetes equivalent emerge in this space?

Whether you are welcoming CentOS Stream or looking for alternatives, the recent decision from the CentOS community to focus on CentOS Stream has forced a lot of technical leaders to rethink their Enterprise Linux strategy.  Today, Linux comes in every shape and size imaginable — with the kernel running on tiny low power computers and IoT devices, mobile phones, tablets, laptops all the way up to midrange and high-power mainframe servers.

1Password has just released the first big-name password management program for Linux desktop users.

Google announced the GSoC 2021 projects and the list includes some interesting improvements to the mainstream foss projects such as GNOME, Xfce, LibreOffice, etc. Take a look.

EyeCloudAI will soon go to Crowd Supply to launch an open-spec, Pi-compatible “CDK” edge AI camera kit based on Intel’s Myriad X VPU with 1GB RAM and a choice of 2MP rolling or global shutter or 8MP rolling shutter sensors. EyeCloudAI, which successfully launched a series of OpenNCC embedded vision AI cameras on Kickstarter last […]

This is the fifth blog post in a series about character encoding mishaps. The samples explained here are truly impressive gibberish.

I often read the question above on forums and groups on Facebook that discuss Linux. This is an interesting discussion because there are so many lightweight Linux distributions that can be used smoothly. I've covered some lightweight Linux Distribution for older computers on this blog.

Screenlets is an application software released under GNU GPL. The same name screenlets refers to the engine as well as widget that runs on it. It was Originally Developed by ‘Rico Pfaus‘, ‘Helder Fraga‘ and ‘Natan Yellin‘ for Unix-like Operating System. Designed specially to run on X11-based compositing windows manager like compiz.

grep is a powerful command-line tool that is used to search one or more input files for lines that match a regular expression and writes each matching line to standard output. In this article, we’re going to show you how to exclude one or multiple words, patterns, or directories when searching with grep.