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pfSense

pfSense is an open source security solution with a custom kernel based on the FreeBSD OS. It is a software distribution that is customised e […]

IPTABLES: The Default Linux Firewall

What is iptables?

iptables is the userspace command line program used to configure the Linux 2.4.x and later packet filtering ruleset. It is targeted towards […]

Members of the European Parliament vote tomorrow on the Directive on Copyright. Those in the EU can go to SaveYourInternet to ask their representatives to vote against Article 17 (previously Article 13). See t […]

Red Hat is noted for making open source a culture and business model, not just a way of developing software, and its message of open source as the path to innovation resonates on many levels.

In anticipation o […]

There’s an old saying, “anything worth doing, is worth automating”—or something like that. Downloading and reading Linux Journal always has been worth doing, and now you can automate it with our autolj script, whi […]

n this brief guide, we will look at how you can compress and extract tar xz tarball files/directories with a .tar.xzfile extension in Linux.

The xz format is a single-file compression format that is based on t […]

There’s a lot more to printing from the Linux command line than the lp command. Check out some of the many available options.

Printing from the Linux command line is easy. You use the lp command to request a […]

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) allows for the querying and modification of an X.500-based directory service. In other words, LDAP is used over a Local Area Network (LAN) to manage and access a […]

If you’re the Linux Mint and KDE lover, then you know that starting from Linux Mint 19 “Tara”, your beloved Linux distro has stopped shipping with KDE. So Linux Mint KDE has died a brutal death. But we can rev […]

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) allows for the querying and modification of an X.500-based directory service. In other words, LDAP is used over a Local Area Network (LAN) to manage and access a […]

SparkyLinux is a Linux distro that can ignite your daily computing experience. Its spark is pushing me to rethink my computing priorities.
Regularly reviewing so many Linux operating systems for Linux Picks and […]

The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 6.2.2. This version “provides over 50 bug and regression fixes over the previous version”. You can view the changelog for details, and go here to dow […]

Welcome to our first release of 2019, Kali Linux 2019.1, which is available for immediate download. This release brings our kernel up to version 4.19.13, fixes numerous bugs, and includes many updated […]

Grid, a new project from the Linux Foundation, will offer developers tools to create supply chain-specific applications running atop distributed ledger technology.

The Linux Foundation’s blockchain initiative […]

After teasing fans for several months with the 3.9999 ISO refresh, the team at Solus has delivered  “Fortitude,” a new release of the independent Linuxdesktop OS. And like elementary OS did with Juno, it seems to […]

Khronos today released the OpenXR 0.90 provision specification. From the press release: “OpenXR is a unifying, royalty-free, open standard that provides high-performance access to augmented reality (AR) and […]

I’ve been using Linux long enough to remember Linux Mandrake. I recall, at one of my first-ever Linux conventions, hanging out with the MandrakeSoft crew and being starstruck to think that they were creating a L […]

In the last few years, we have witnessed the unprecedented growth of open source in all industries—from the increased adoption of open source software in products and services, to the extensive growth in open s […]

The first Open Networking Summit was held in October 2011 at Stanford University and described as “a premier event about OpenFlow and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)”. Here we are seven and half years later […]