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The Debian Project announced today the release and general availability of Debian 12.2 as the second ISO update to the latest Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” operating system series.

Also included in this week’s FOSS Week in Review: OpenPubkey goes to Linux Foundation, adding vector support to MySQL for AI, and the results of last week’s rolling release poll.

Fail2ban is a free and open source software we can use to mitigate brute force and DoS/DDoS attacks: it scans log files for multiple failed authentication attempts and bans related IP addresses by creating ad-hoc firewall rules. In this tutorial, we see how to install and configure fail2ban on Linux, and we learn the basic concepts behind its usage.

Qualys has discovered a nasty security hole, dubbed 'Looney Tunables', in the glibc C library. This means almost all Linux distributions have a bad security problem.

Guide to install Wike Wikipedia Reader on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish via three methods: APT, Snap or Flatpak.

Steps to install Visual Studio Code (VSCode) on Linux Mint 21 via APT or Flatpak with the command line terminal.

Learn about the new features of Kubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur", bringing the latest KDE Plasma 5.27 desktop and improvements.

The Debian Project announced the general availability of Debian 11.8 in “Bullseye” and Debian 12.2 in “Bookworm” series as bugfix releases.

Apache Tomcat is an open-source Java web server and Servlet container used to host web applications written in Java. This tutorial will show you how to install Apache Tomcat on Ubuntu 22.04.

That is not dead which can eternal lie. Iä! Iä! IA16! Version 0.7.0 of ELKS OS, and 0.4.0 of its creator's next baby, Fuzix, are out – if you like your 'nix systems as tiny as can be.…

Suricata is a Network Monitoring tool that examines and processes every packet of internet traffic that flows through your server. It can generate log events, trigger alerts, and drop traffic upon detecting any suspicious activity.

fwupd 1.9.6 Linux firmware upgrading utility has been released today with support for more hardware devices, new features, as well as a dozen bug fixes.

These days you can acquire time series data from multiple sources. In this article we will show you how to use InfluxDB, a popular time-series database dedicated to fast concurrent read/write of critical time-series information. One can argue that using a traditional relational database may not work well with data in a time-series format because […]

This guide provides detailed instructions on installing the Plex Media Server on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish). It covers the process right from importing the Plex APT repository to navigating through the web-UI installation. Additionally, the guide addresses common issues like media permissions to ensure a smooth setup.

Valve released today Proton 8.0-4 as the latest version of this open-source compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components that enable Linux users to play Windows games.

Adobe Bridge is a creative asset manager that lets you preview, organise, edit and publish multiple creative assets quickly and easily.

It's a great advert for Ubuntu anyway. Windows 10 may be just over a year away from the ax, but its successor, Windows 11, appears to be as unpopular as ever.…

ownCloud is a software solution for creating file-hosting services like Google Drive and DropBox. Follow this guide to learn how to install ownCloud on Debian 12 step-by-step. Learn how to install ownCloud via the command line on the LAMP Stack and secure ownCloud with SSL/TLS certificates from Letsencrypt.

phpPgAdmin is a web-based software that allows developers, system administrators, and regular users to manage their PostgreSQL database easily via the browser.PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system. phpPgAdmin is written in PHP and is based on the popular phpMyAdmin interface originally written for MySQL administration. This blog post will install PHP, PostgreSQL, and the Apache Web server to create an Apache configuration file for phpPgAdmin. For this setup, we will spend up to 20 minutes.

iPadOS-like distro reaches 7.1 and talks to you on installation. The latest release of Elementary OS, version 7.1, is out, based on Ubuntu 22.04.3. We took it for a quick spin.…