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The Librem 5: Your Ultimate GNU/Linux FLOSS Smartphone

Posted on in Categories Linux News, Mobile Devices last updated August 24, 2017

Purism is well known for Linux based laptop with Coreboot. Now they started a crowdfunding campaign today for its smartphone called Purism Librem 5. What is so special about this phone? It is 100% powered by GNU/Linux. You can run any Linux distro on it. The phone provides high security and privacy features, i.e., it does not track you. This seems like an excellent device. One that I would certainly purchase or recommend to a privacy-conscious person.

Download of The Day: Fedora Linux 26

Posted on in Categories Linux News last updated July 11, 2017

Fedora 26 with KDEFedora Linux version 26.0 has been released ( jump to download ) after many months of constant development and available for download in various media format. Fedora 26 is a free and open source operating system includes various new features such as GCC 7, Golang 1.8, Python 3.6, DNF 2.0, OpenSSL 1.1.0 and more. Fedora 26 runs on both ARM servers and desktop boards too.

Download of The Day: Debian Linux 9 ( Stretch )

Posted on in Categories Linux News last updated June 18, 2017

Debian GNU/Linux version 9.0 stretch has been released ( jump to download ) after many months of constant development and available for download in various media format. Debian 9.0 is a free operating system includes various new features such as support for mips64el architecture, GNOME 3.22, KDE Plasma 5.8, LXDE, LXQt 0.11, MATE 1.16, Xfce 4.12, Linux kernel 4.9 and more. Debian 9 is dedicated to the project’s founder Ian Murdock, who passed away on 28 December 2015.
Debian 8.x 64-bit-mate-desktop-screenshot

Alpine Linux 3.6.0 has been released

Posted on in Categories Linux News last updated May 27, 2017

Alpine Linux 3.6.0 released
Alpine Linux version 3.6 has been released. Alpine Linux is built around musl libc and busybox. This makes it smaller and more resource efficient than traditional GNU/Linux distributions. A container requires no more than 8 MB, and a minimal installation to disk requires around 130 MB of storage. Not only do you get a fully-fledged Linux environment but a large selection of packages from the repository. Alpine Linux was designed with security in mind. The kernel is patched with an unofficial port of grsecurity/PaX, and all userland binaries are compiled as Position Independent Executables (PIE) with stack smashing protection. These proactive security features prevent exploitation of entire classes of zero-day and other vulnerabilities.

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Posted on in Categories Linux News last updated January 30, 2017

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How to paste password easily when pasting into password input fields disabled on Google Chrome

Posted on in Categories Howto, Linux News, Open Source, Programming last updated March 6, 2016


I use the gpass password manager to store my randomly generated unique password for each site. However, many sites such as net banking prevent you from pasting a password when signing up. The site owner or webmaster disables pasting into password input fields. Want to paste your password on such site? Give it a try to don’t f*ck with paste Google Chrome extension.