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The UBports Foundation announced today the release and general availability of the OTA-2 software update for their Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa).

2DayGeeK: This quick tutorial describes how to identify which SAN disks are mapped to which VxVM devices on Linux.

Penguins are OK with glaciers. Academics not so much Ah, gentle reader, we find ourselves once again at that juncture of the week we call Who, Me? in which your fellow Regizens' tales of technical not-quite-competence brighten an otherwise dull Monday.…

Zorin OS devs informed 9to5Linux today about the general availability of Zorin OS 16.3 as the third update to the latest Zorin OS 16 operating system series based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish).

'The solution to the surveillance economy seems to be more surveillance' Vivaldi boss tells El Reg. Google's Web Environment Integrity (WEI) proposal, according to one of the developers working on the controversial fraud fighting project, aims to make the web "more private and safe."…

KDE developers have announced which features they will remove in the upcoming Plasma 6 desktop environment. Here’s what they are!

The Mesa 23.2 open-source graphics stack is now available for download as the second major release to the Mesa 23 series bringing new features to the RADV Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs, improved Linux gaming, and new Asahi features.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to build our own Command Line Interface (CLI) tool using Python on a Linux system. A CLI tool allows users to interact with a program or script through a command-line interface, providing a more efficient and flexible way of executing tasks. By the end of this tutorial, you will have a good understanding of how to create a CLI tool and perform various operations using it.

In this tutorial, we will explore how to create a fun quiz game using Rust programming language. The game will be designed to run in the Linux terminal, providing an interactive experience for the users. By the end of this tutorial, you will have a working quiz game that can be played directly from the command line.

CIQ, Rocky Linux's founding support and services partner, has customized its own take, Ascender on the Ansible AWX front end to the popular DevOps program Ansible.

In this guide, we'll walk you through the steps of installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Windows Dual Boot setup. We'll also provide some tips on how to troubleshoot any problems that you might encounter.

There's still life in the wider Version 6 Unix family – and 9front too. Not only are various editions of Version 6 UNIX, often known as V6 for short, still being maintained – but new ones continue to appear.…

Learn how to use the echo command in Linux with clear examples.

Learn how to run specific commands without sudo password in Linux. The NOPASSWD directive in the /etc/sudoers file allows you to specify a list of commands that can be run without requiring a password.

PowerDNS is a free and open-source authoritative nameserver written in C++. It supports several databases such as MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and Oracle to store zone files and records. In this post, we will explain how to install PowerDNS and PowerDNS admin on Ubuntu 22.04 server.

Independently developed GNU/Linux distribution 4MLinux has been updated today to version 43.0 as the latest stable release for this lightweight distro built around the JWM (Joe’s Window Manager) window manager.

An assorted list of Video editors for Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora and others) with their feature highlights.

Mir 2.14 and its easily installable sibling Miriway. Canonical is still working away on its own Mir display server, used in several of its IoT product lines. Version 2.14 gains more functionality useful for full desktop environments.…

Happy SysAdmin Day to all the fantastic Linux admins out there! You are the true heroes of our servers, the guardians of our data, and the masters of our networks. You rock!

Be nice to your SysAdmin, SEC makes rules for reporting cyber attacks, and Musk purloins a user’s $40,000 Twitter handle.