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Right now when dealing with quirky/buggy touchscreens a C file needs to be manually manipulated and the Linux kernel recompiled. With a new "i2c_touchscreen_props" kernel command line option on its way to the mainline kernel, the process of overriding touchscreen properties is dramatically easier for those dealing with Linux on touchscreen-enabled devices.

OOM killer is a shortcut to Out of Memory Killer and is a Linux component designed to prevent RAM exhaustion. The OOM Killer has one task, and that task is to check if there is enough available memory, and if there is not, then select a process to kill to free up some RAM. The situations with exhausted memory occur because the Linux kernel has over-allocated too much for its processes.

Bruce, of Debian and OSI fame, spoke to me about a bunch of topics and gave me his phone number. One subject that came up was SFLC or Prof. Moglen, not necessarily in relation to the trademark dispute (over SFC, which seems to have resorted to the same serial defamation it had weaponised against other high-profile people).

Systemd-free distro Nitrux 3.5 is here with Liquorix kernel 6.8, KDE Plasma 5.27.11, a new AMD Vulkan driver, critical security updates, and more.

EndlessOS 6 is a toughened and much-simplified immutable Debian 12 with a friendly GNOME-based desktop, aimed at kids, education, and novice users.

Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. We’ve really pulled all the stops out this month and published a gargantuan number of updates.

How to whitelist an IP in Fail2ban on Debian Linux. Fail2Ban is used to protect servers against brute force attacks. Fail2ban uses iptables to block attackers, so, if we want to add permanent IP address and never be blocked, we must add it in the config file.

Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 3.5 as the latest ISO snapshot of this systemd-free, immutable, and Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution built around the KDE Plasma desktop.

In this article, we will explore how to clone permissions from one file or directory to another on a Linux system. This is a common task that can save time and ensure consistency across your file system. By using a few simple commands, you can easily duplicate the permissions of any file or directory to another, maintaining the desired access control settings.

Wayland 1.23 display server protocol released, featuring improved debugging aids, new enum-header modes, and OpenBSD support.

This article describes the process of converting Fedora Server with a container-based workload to use Fedora CoreOS and bootc.

Kdenlive 24.05 open-source video editor brings multi-format rendering, faster clip handling, automatic subtitle translations, and more.

Immich is a free and open source alternative to Google Photos, with a focus on privacy. Both the server software and the mobile client application, are developed in the open on GitHub. Thanks to the container technology, deploying a private, self-hosted instance of Immich is quite easy. In this tutorial, we learn how to run a self-hosted Immich instance using Docker, to manage and backup our photos and videos.

Discover a step-by-step guide to installing sublime text 4 on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions, then the usage of package cont

Simon Ser today released Wayland 1.23 for this core Wayland code that brings some minor enhancements, bug fixes, and Wayland protocol clarifications...

Discover a new CLI file manager named Superfile, learn how to install it, use it with different key bindings, and install plugins and themes.

RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) is a package management system used primarily in Red Hat-based distributions like RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora. Sometimes, you may need to extract files from an RPM package without installing it, either for inspection or to use certain files in a different context. This article will guide you through the steps to extract files from an RPM package archive.

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Caddy 2.8 web & reverse proxy server arrives as a massive update with major improvements. Here's more on that!

From the beginning, Linux has made it possible for admins and users to get fairly granular with file and folder permissions. From the user perspective, it’s simple: If you created a file, you own it and have permission to read or write to the file. But that doesn’t always apply to the ability to execute a file. For that, you have to add an extra permission.