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Linus Torvalds released the fourth release candidate (RC4) for Linux Kernel version 6.19. Learn what's new in Kernel 6.19-rc4 ...

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Nate Graham is looking for a new maintainer to take over This Week in Plasma, citing career growth, and family priorities.

This guide explains top 10 dangerous Linux commands in simple terms. Learn why they are risky and how beginners should think ...

Disable sleep on laptop lid close in Linux using systemd-logind. Works on Arch, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu. 2-minute fix with ...

AppImage follows a concept called “One app = one file”. This is to be understood as an AppImage being a regular independent “file” containing one application with everything it needs to run in the ...

In this tutorial, we will discuss a brief overview about Linux containers and its use cases. Then we will move on to see how to list available container templates from Proxmox web dashboard, download ...

As part of the LVM series, we have seen how to export and import logical volumes between different machines in the previous article. In this article, we will see how to use ansible to automate the ...

Containers and Virtual Machines are both Virtualization technologies that can be used to deploy and manage applications. However, they have different strengths and weaknesses, and the best choice for ...

Even though Linux is secure by design, there are still many chances for the security breach. One of them is weak passwords. As a System administrator, you must set a strong password for the users and ...

As a Linux system administrator, you should routinely check the login date and time of the users in your Linux server. It gives you some useful details such as how many users are active, how many ...