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Andres Freund discovered that the upstream source tarballs for xz-utils, the XZ-format compression utilities, are compromised and inject malicious code, at build time, into the resulting liblzma5 library.

Another fork of Redis has arrived, and this one might end up making the Redis suits wish they had never even considered abandoning open-source. It has the support of The Linux Foundation, big tech, and many of the project’s long-time contributors.

Summary: The latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access. Specifically, this code is present in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 of the libraries. Fedora Linux 40 users may have received version 5.6.0, depending on the timing of system updates. Fedora Rawhide users may have received version 5.6.0 or 5.6.1.

Monit is an open-source monitoring tool that can be used to monitor servers. This tutorial will show you how to install and configure the Monit monitoring tool on Ubuntu 22.04.

ElkArte is a free and open-source forum software written in PHP language. This tutorial will show you how to install ElkArte on Ubuntu 22.04 with Let's Encrypt SSL.

Caddy is a powerful, yet easy-to-use webserver for Linux. Learn how you can use it for hosting websites and proxies in Ubuntu today.

Samba 4.20 Released with Improved Active Directory Compatibility and New Utilities.

Discover a way to run a Windows 11 machine on a Docker container in your Linux system, such as Ubuntu, Debain, RedHat, Fedora, etc.

Two talks in Switzerland, where GNU's 40th birthday was celebrated last autumn by a then-hairless GNU founder, who underwent cancer treatment

Discover a step-by-step guide to install different DEs, such as KDE, Xfce, LXQt, etc., on the Ubuntu system with practical examples.

Munin is a free, open-source system and powerful network monitoring tool for Linux. This tutorial will show you how to install the Munin monitoring tool on Ubuntu 22.04.

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 24.2.2 as the second point release to the latest LibreOffice 24.2 office suite series fixing more than 70 bugs.

Java is a powerful programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. Over the years, it has become indispensable for developing everything from mobile applications to large-scale enterprise systems. Installing Java on Ubuntu, a popular Linux distribution, is a straightforward process that can be accomplished through various methods. This tutorial aims to guide you through the installation of Java on Ubuntu, covering both the installation from the Ubuntu repository and the official Oracle package.

This tutorial teaches you all you need to know about Nix, a powerful package manager for Linux and Unix.

PostgreSQL or Postgres is an open-source object-relational database management that implements the SQL querying language. pgAdmin is an open-source administration tool for PostgreSQL.

Master traffic redirection with our Caddy tutorial. Set up Caddy as a reverse proxy and quickly streamline access to your services.

Samba 4.20: Now with reduced dependencies, a new Windows Search Protocol client, crucial security updates, and more.

LibreNMS is a free and open-source monitoring tool written in PHP/MySQL/SNMP. This guide will teach you how to install and configure the LibreNMS monitoring tool on the latest Ubuntu 22.04 server. This tutorial will cover some additional configurations of the LEMP Stack for the LibreNMS installation.

For this instalment in the series, we’re going to examine the power consumption of the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC and compare it to three other machines.

I did a comparison and a detailed review of KDE Plasma 6 from a general user perspective. Here’s what I found.