Mageia 8 overview | Change your perspective.
Posted: 2021-03-05 17:51:57 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Ywn2iBKNc
Arch Linux: Full Installation Guide - A complete tutorial/walkthrough in one video!
Posted: 2021-03-03 17:00:06 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPLnBPM4DhI
How to install Kali Linux 2021.1
Posted: 2021-03-03 15:38:04 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lnej4_DvH0
Review: The New weLees Visual LVM, a new style of LVM management, has been released
Posted: 2021-03-02 17:00:00 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/new-welees-visual-lvm-new-style-lvm-management-has-been-released
Maintenance of the storage system is a daily job for system administrators. Linux provides users with a wealth of storage capabilities, and powerful built-in maintenance tools. However, these tools are hardly friendly to system administrators while generally considerable effort is required for mastery.
As a Linux built-in storage model, LVM provides users with plenty flexible management modes to fit various needs. For users who can fully utilize its functions, LVM could meet almost all needs. But the premise is thorough understanding of the LVM model, dozens of commands as well as accompanying parameters.
The graphical interface would dramatically simplify both learning curve and operation with LVM, in a similar approach as partition tools that are widely used on Windows/Linux platforms. Although scripts with commands are suitable for daily, automatic tasks, the script could not handle all functions in LVM. For instance, manual calculation and processing are still required by many tasks.
Significant effort had been spent on this problem. Nowadays, several graphical LVM management tools are already available on the Internet, some of them are built-in with Linux distributions and others are developed by third parties. But there remains a critical problem: desire for remote machines or headless servers are completely ignored.
This is now solved by Visual LVM Remote. Front end of this tool is developed based on the HTTP protocol. With any smart device that can connect to the storage server, Users can perform management operations.
Visual LVM is developed by weLees Corporation and supports all Linux distributions. In addition to working with remote/headless servers, it also supports more advanced features of LVM compared with various on-shelf graphic LVM management tools.
Dependences of Visual LVM Remote
Visual LVM Remote can work on any Linux distribution that including two components below:
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LVM2
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Libstdc++.so
UI of Visual LVM Remote
With a concise UI, partitions/physical volumes/logical volumes are displayed by disk layout. With a glance, disk/volume group information can be obtained immediately. In addition, detailed relevant information of the object will be displayed in the information bar below with the mouse hover on the concerned object.
Linus Torvalds Went Six Days Without Electricity, Swears Smaller 5.12 Kernel Is Co-Incidental
Posted: 2021-03-02 01:25:00 Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinuxatom/~3/BDWs4QAjZlw/linus-torvalds-went-six-days-without-electricity-swears-smaller-512-kernel-is-co-incidental
Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has revealed that inclement weather in the USA meant he recently endured six electricity-free days in his Portland, Oregon, home during which he was unable to tend to the kernel. As a result he therefore pondered adding an extra week to the merge window for version 5.12 of the Linux kernel. The Register reports: "As you can tell, I didn't do that," he said in his State of The Kernel update that announced release candidate one of the new kernel cut. "To a large part because people were actually very good about sending in their pull requests, so by the time I finally got power back, everything was nicely lined up and I got things merged up ok." It wasn't just penguinistas behaving well that helped. Torvalds said this version of the kernel has received around 10,000 commits. That's rather fewer than the 12,000 or 13,000 he usually sees. In case anyone was inconvenienced by blackout-induced inability to merge, Torvalds said he's open to help any kernel devs for whom his unavailability caused problems but is not open to all late pulls. Torvalds rated the new release as offering "a fair amount of historical cleanup" on account of "removing the legacy OPROFILE support (the user tools have been using the "perf" interface for years), and removing several legacy SoC platforms and various drivers that no longer make any sense." Among the big inclusions in 5.12 are Clang Link-Time Optimizations, which make for better compiler performance, and support for Intel's eASIC NX5 silicon that aims to offer an alternative to FPGAs in edge and cloud applications. Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 5G SoC also gains support.
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Linux Mint Developers Will Force Updates on Users Like Microsoft Does with Windows 10
Posted: 2021-03-01 20:45:00 Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinuxatom/~3/TuG9ltRi8_c/linux-mint-developers-will-force-updates-on-users-like-microsoft-does-with-windows-10
AmiMoJo shares a report: Last month, the Linux Mint team published a post on the organization's official blog about the importance of installing security updates on machines running the Linux distribution. The essence of the post was that a sizeable number of Linux Mint devices was running outdated applications, packages or even an outdated version of the operating system itself. A sizeable number of devices run on Linux Mint 17.x, according to the blog post, a version of Linux Mint that reached end of support in April 2019. A new blog post, published yesterday, provides information on how the team plans to reduce the update reluctance of Linux Mint users. Next to showing reminders to users, Linux Mint's Update Manager may enforce some of the updates according to the blog post. "In some cases the Update Manager will be able to remind you to apply updates. In a few of them it might even insist." Upcoming versions will provide information on the implementation, how the "insisting" part may look like, and whether the installation of updates will be enforced. All of this boils down to a single question: how far should operating system developers go when it comes to updates? BetaNews adds: "And now, it seems the Linux Mint developers are taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook by planning to force some updates on its users. Yes, folks, Linux Mint is becoming more like Windows 10."
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Kali Linux 2021.1 overview | By Offensive Security
Posted: 2021-03-01 18:14:20 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiZWJTdCbT4
Mageia 8 Now Available with Linux 5.10 LTS
Posted: 2021-03-01 18:03:03 Source: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Mageia-8-Now-Available-with-Linux-5.10-LTS
The latest release of Mageia includes improved graphics support for both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs.
How to migrate CentOS 8 to AlmaLinux
Posted: 2021-03-01 17:00:06 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEA7NC6ROCw
What My First Tech Job Taught Me
Posted: 2021-02-28 22:56:44 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG2Or_OGznU
Introducing Crowdsec: a Modernized, Collaborative Massively Multiplayer Firewall
Posted: 2021-02-28 15:34:00 Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinuxatom/~3/ovQ871-6NOM/introducing-crowdsec-a-modernized-collaborative-massively-multiplayer-firewall
Slashdot reader b-dayyy writes: CrowdSec is a massively multiplayer firewall designed to protect Linux servers, services, containers, or virtual machines exposed on the Internet with a server-side agent. It was inspired by Fail2Ban and aims to be a modernized, collaborative version of that intrusion-prevention tool. CrowdSec is free and open-source (under an MIT License), with the source code available on GitHub. It uses a behavior analysis system to qualify whether someone is trying to hack you, based on your logs. If your agent detects such aggression, the offending IP is then dealt with and sent for curation. If this signal passes the curation process, the IP is then redistributed to all users sharing a similar technological profile to 'immunize' them against this IP. The goal is to leverage the power of the crowd to create a real-time IP reputation database. As for the IP that aggressed your machine, you can choose to remedy the threat in any manner you feel appropriate. Ultimately, CrowdSec leverages the power of the community to create an extremely accurate IP reputation system that benefits all its users. It was clear to the founders that Open Source was going to be one of the main pillars of CrowdSec. The project's founders have been working on open-source projects for decades — they didn't just jump on the train. Rather, they are strong Open Source believers. They believe that the crowd is key to the mass hacking plague we are experiencing, and that Open Source is the best lever to create a community and have people contribute their knowledge to the project, ultimately make it better and more secure. The solution recently turned 1.x, introducing a major architectural change: the introduction of a local REST API.
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Kali Linux 2021.1 Released: Tweaked DEs and Terminals, New Tools, Silicon Macs
Posted: 2021-02-27 17:04:00 Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinuxatom/~3/FKptWIflxeY/kali-linux-20211-released-tweaked-des-and-terminals-new-tools-silicon-macs
Slashdot reader Finuz writes: Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2021.1, the latest version of its popular open source penetration testing platform. You can download it or upgrade to it. Kali NetHunter, the distro's mobile pentesting platform, now has an upgraded BusyBox engine and tools updated to the latest version (or, in some cases, completely rewritten). There are two new Kali ARM images: one that can be used with VMs on Apple Silicon Macs (Apple M1) and the other for the Raspberry Pi 400's wireless card.
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Red Hat Introduces Free RHEL for Open-Source Organizations
Posted: 2021-02-27 16:34:00 Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinuxatom/~3/UU6hNKohnJ0/red-hat-introduces-free-rhel-for-open-source-organizations
ZDNet brings an update about the future of Red Hat Enterprise Linux: When Red Hat, CentOS's Linux parent company, announced it was "shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream," CentOS users were not happy. Now, in an effort to mollify them and to keep its promise to open-source organizations, Red Hat is introducing a new, free RHEL for Open Source Infrastructure. If your non-profit organization, project, standard body, or foundation is "engaged with open source," you can get a free RHEL subscription via this program. Earlier this year, Red Hat introduced no-cost RHEL for small production workloads and for customer development teams... Jason Brooks, a Red Hat Open Source Program Office Manager explained: Supporting the open-source software ecosystem is a core objective for Red Hat... We know that we are part of a larger, interdependent ecosystem that we benefit from and which we do our best to foster and support. This support comes in many forms, but often includes helping open source software projects, foundations, and standards bodies access enterprise technologies for development and testing. We frequently provide no-cost access to RHEL to these groups, but the process isn't as formalized, consistent, accessible, or transparent as we'd like it to be. With the announcement that we will be shifting our resources to CentOS Stream at the end of 2021, we want to make sure that those organizations engaged with open source have access to RHEL as they build and test the future of open-source software... The GNOME Foundation's executive director Neil McGovern, said: As a non-profit, we rely on donations to help us achieve our goal of a world where everyone is empowered by technology they can trust. RHEL subscriptions are an essential part of this. With full operating system management and security updates, we can concentrate on the services we provide to GNOME users and developers without having to worry about the underlying systems. Red Hat has generously provided these services to GNOME at zero cost for years, and we look forward to continuing our relationship for a long time to come. GNOME is also the default desktop in RHEL Workstation.
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The TinyPilot KVM - An open-source network KVM
Posted: 2021-02-26 15:30:00 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aGbglFZi8g
GNOME 40 Beta has been Released
Posted: 2021-02-25 19:51:25 Source: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/GNOME-40-Beta-has-been-Released
Anyone looking to test the beta for the upcoming GNOME 40 release can now do so.
Google Sponsors 2 Full-Time Devs To Improve Linux Security
Posted: 2021-02-24 21:00:00 Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinuxatom/~3/zXhWARm_S9U/google-sponsors-2-full-time-devs-to-improve-linux-security
Worried about the security of Linux and open-source code, Google is sponsoring a pair of full-time developers to work on the kernel's security. From a report: The internet giant builds code from its own repositories rather than downloading outside binaries, though given the pace at which code is being added to Linux, this task is non-trivial. Google's open-source security team lead Dan Lorenc spoke to The Register about its approach, and why it will not use pre-built binaries despite their convenience. But first: the two individuals full-time sponsored by Google are Gustavo Silva, whose work includes eliminating some classes of buffer overflow risks and on kernel self-protection, and Nathan Chancellor, who fixes bugs in the Clang/LLVM compilers and improves compiler warnings. Both are already working at the Linux Foundation, so what is new? "Gustavo's been working on the Linux kernel at the Linux Foundation for several years now," Lorenc tells us. "We've actually been sponsoring it within the Foundation for a number of years. The main change is that we're trying to talk about it more, to encourage other companies to participate. It's a model that works, we're trying to expand it, find contributors that want to turn this into a full-time thing, and giving them the funding to do that." It is in the nature of open source that Google's funding benefits other Linux users, and it is also in the company's interests. How important is Linux to Google? "It's absolutely critical. Google started on Linux. We use it everywhere," says Lorenc. That being the case, why can Google only manage "Gold" membership of the Linux Foundation ($100,000 per annum), whereas others including Microsoft, Intel, Facebook, and Red Hat are "Platinum", which contributes $500,000 annually? "I'm not sure about that stuff. There are dozens of sub-foundations which we are also members of," he adds. Google is ahead of AWS, which is a mere "Silver" member ($20,000 a year).
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How to Homelab - Laptops as Servers?!
Posted: 2021-02-24 14:30:03 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obdtUJECFWY
Nvidia Linux drivers causing random hard crashes and now a major security risk still not fixed after 5+ months
Posted: 2021-02-23 17:00:00 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nvidia-linux-drivers-causing-random-hard-crashes-and-now-major-security-risk-still-not
The recent fiasco with Nvidia trying to block Hardware Unboxed from future GPU review samples for the content of their review is one example of how they choose to play this game. This hatred is not only shared by reviewers, but also developers and especially Linux users.
The infamous Torvalds videos still traverse the web today as Nvidia conjures up another evil plan to suck up more of your money and market share. This is not just one off shoot case; oh how much I wish it was. I just want my computer to work.
If anyone has used Sway-WM with an Nvidia GPU I’m sure they would remember the –my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia option.
These are a few examples of many.
The Nvidia Linux drivers have never been good but whatever has been happening at Nvidia for the past decade has to stop today. The topic in question today is this bug: [https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/bug-report-455-23-04-kernel-panic-due-to-null-pointer-dereference]
This bug causes hard irrecoverable crashes from driver 440+. This issue is still happening 5+ months later with no end in sight. At first users could work around this by using an older DKMS driver along with a LTS kernel. However today this is no longer possible. Many distributions of Linux are now dropping the old kernels. DKMS cannot build. The users are now FORCED with this “choice”:
{Use an older driver and risk security implications} or {“use” the new drivers that cause random irrecoverable crashes.}
This issue is only going to get more and more prevalent as the kernel is a core dependency by definition. This is just another example of the implications of an unsafe older kernel causing issue for users: https://archlinux.org/news/moving-to-zstandard-images-by-default-on-mkinitcpio/
If you use Linux or care about the implications of a GPU monopoly, consider AMD. Nvidia is already rearing its ugly head and AMD is actually putting up a fight this year.
Linux on Old Laptops: The Lenovo Thinkpad T440p
Posted: 2021-02-22 15:00:33 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHVdTTG34lo
Linux Essentials - The Arch User Repository (AUR)
Posted: 2021-02-19 13:00:28 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBeSJvYkV7I