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Community is the cornerstone of what makes open source work so well, in part because innovation thrives on diversity of thought. I am always looking for inquisitive people who share clever ideas and question technology's status quo. Here are nine people in my feed who inspire my love for learning.

Take a look through our collection of articles about tools that help you pull the data you need to better manage your Linux systems.

The KeePassXC open-source password manager has been updated today to version 2.6.1, a release that introduces better support for the lightweight Xfce desktop environment, improved password generator experience, and many other changes.

Problem determination can be as much an art as a science, and sometimes, it seems even a little magic can be useful. Everyone has encountered situations where a reported failure could not be reproduced, which is always frustrating for both the user and the system administrator. Even home appliances and automobiles can be obstinate and refuse to fail when the service person shows up. read more

Passbolt is a free, open-source, self-hosted and extensible password manager that helps you to securely share and store login credentials, such as password of the router, website, Wi-Fi, and more.

Linux computer manufacturer System76 unveiled today the next-generation of its Bonobo WS Linux laptop with more powerful components for and Open Source firmware support.

As discussed in part III, public key authentication is great in principle but in practice has been hard to integrate into the Web environment. However, we’re now seeing deployment of … Read more The post A look at password security, Part IV: WebAuthn appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

Key performance improvements and fixes to GStreamer's RTP stack have landed in GStreamer 1.18, due in the coming months. The latest enhancements provide an important boost in throughput, opening the gate to high bitrate video streaming.

(Circuit Cellar article) From preventive maintenance for appliances to voice-controlled lighting, the subsystems that comprise a modern Smart Home continue to evolve. Providing the building blocks for these implementations, IC vendors are keeping pace with specialized MCUs, sensors platforms and embedded software to meet diverse requirements.

This article explains how to install updates automatically on Debian 10 to keep your Linux system secure.

In 1972, Dennis Ritchie was at Bell Labs, where a few years earlier, he and his fellow team members invented Unix. After creating an enduring OS (still in use today), he needed a good way to program those Unix computers so that they could perform new tasks. It seems strange now, but at the time, there were relatively few programming languages; Fortran, Lisp, Algol, and B were popular but insufficient for what the Bell Labs researchers wanted to do. read more

The bi-weekly release cycle of the latest Mesa 20.1 open source graphics stack for the Linux desktop continues with Mesa 20.1.6, the latest stable Vulkan/OpenGL graphics drivers update.

In this interview Swapnil Bhartiya, creator of TFiR, sat down with Shuli Goodman, Executive Director of LF Energy to discuss the role open source and the foundation is playing in helping the energy sector to embark on its own digital transformation and cloud-native journey. Here is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.

Check out how to install and enable Xrdp for remote Login to Ubuntu Server

Kali Linux is the best penetration testing distribution with hundreds of tools for testing different devices and services. In Kali Linux 2020.3 update, the team has made several important changes to Kali that make it much better.

How about a sysadmin tool that helps you to "relax and recover?" ReaR does that.

Fail2ban is a tool that helps protect your Linux machine from brute-force and other automated attacks by monitoring the services logs for malicious activity. It uses regular expressions to scan log files.

In this guide, our goal is to learn about the tools and environment provided by a typical GNU/Linux system to be able to start troubleshooting even on an unknown machine. To do so, we will go through two simple example issues: we will solve a desktop and server side problem.

This article will explain how to install and configure the Samba server on a Debian system. We will also learn how to access these shared files from Linux or Windows machines.