Linux Today

You can use Dockerfiles to build your container images, but these files have limitations.

Learn how you can use iptables firewall to disable or enable the ping port.

HowToForge: Textpattern is a free and open-source PHP content management system.

KDE Applications 19.12 introduces numerous improvements and new features

LinuxUprising: Sometimes you just want Oracle VirtualBox and not the VirtualBox in the Ubuntu repos

VirtualBox 6.1 is the first major release in the VirtualBox 6 series of the popular virtualization platform and promises some exciting new features

Linux distros have powerful command-line tools built-in.

Nixcraft: Learn how to test and validate DNSSEC issues that affect DNS resolution using the dig command.

uname is a command-line utility that prints basic information about the operating system name and system hardware.

Linux automatically handles UID and GID for you, but some of you might want more control over those attributes.

Do you need a college degree to be a sysadmin?

NetworkWorld: Some simple Linux commands allow you to break up files and reassemble them

It is official!! Microsoft Teams client is now available for Linux users.

LinuxUprising: It looks like DXVK, the Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 11 and 10, is entering maintenance mode.

ElkArte is a free, open-source and powerful forum software that allows you to create your own online forum community.

Toplip is a free and open source encryption utility

 Raspberry Pi 4 can in fact be a somewhat decent remote desktop client

Learn how to install Guake on your Debian through the command line.

Tecmint: In this article, we will show how to add missing or set custom display resolution in Ubuntu and its derivatives such as Linux Mint.

The Firefox 71 web browser introduces native MP3 decoding and a much-improved built-in password manager

HandBrake is a free and open source application that lets you convert videos from one format to another.

 Learn how you can install the ALSA utilities package

With many developers now actively contributing to it, PipeWire is maturing quickly and is well on its way to becoming the new standard.

Ratchet is to wrench as htop is to top:

Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix has seen its first ever release as an unofficial Ubuntu Cinnamon flavor

Rsyslog is a powerful and secure system for log processing

 Learn about the du command.

fossilicious: Are you bored with the default Ubuntu Grub display?

 techrights: Think a little more about WSL

 itsFOSS: Ubuntu Cinnamon is a new distribution that utilizes Linux Mint's Cinnamon desktop environment on top of Ubuntu code base.

 nixcraft: EPEL (Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux ) is an essential repo for any CentOS Linux version 8 user/sysadmin/developer

 ostechnix: McFly is a simple CLI tool written in Rust programming language that replaces the default Ctrl+r Bash history search with an intelligent search engine.

With the new rolling model, the kernel in the Ubuntu AWS images gets all the latest fixes, performance tweaks, and security patches from upstream, as soon as they are available.

7zip is a great tool for compressing files, but its usage can be complicated for some users.

Swap is a space on a disk that is used when the amount of physical RAM memory is full.

TLP is a free, open-source and feature rich utility for battery use optimization on laptops running Debian.

Linus Torvalds: Everything looks fairly regular

nnn is a very fast file manager created to work seamlessly with desktop environments and GUI utilities.