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Linux Kernel 5.3 released and here is how to install it

last updated September 16, 2019 in Howto, Linux News, Open Source

Linux kernel version 5.3 released. This version includes many improvements including support for AMD Navi GPU, support for new IPv4 addresses in the 0.0.0.0/8 range, the lightweight hypervisor ACRN for embedded IoT devices and much more.

In comics: Linux celebrates 28th birthday

last updated August 25, 2019 in Linux News

On 26 August 1991, Linus Torvalds announced hobby project that was supposed to better than Minix operating systems. He said I am doing a free operating system. Just a hobby and won’t be big or professional like GNU. Linux turns 28 years old, and we are going to celebrate Linux’s birthday by sharing comics in pop culture that made it even more popular.

KDE has been deprecated in RHEL 7.6 and future version of RHEL

last updated November 2, 2018 in Linux News, Open Source

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is well known to set defaults across the industry. For example, RHEL pushed systemd so hard that all other Linux distro adopted for good or bad reasons. Now Red Hat announced that KDE Plasma Workspaces (KDE) been deprecated from RHEL 7.6 and all future version of RHEL.

Download of The Day: Fedora Linux 27

last updated November 15, 2017 in Linux News

Fedora Linux version 27.0 has been released ( jump to download ) after many months of constant development and available for download in various media format. Fedora 27 is a free and open source operating system includes various new features such as GNOME 3.26, LibreOffice 5.4, glibc version 2.26, Node.js 8.x, Ruby on Rails 5.1, Golang 1.9 and more.
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Download of The Day: Fedora Linux 26

last updated July 11, 2017 in Linux News

Fedora 26 with KDE Fedora 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.

Linux security alert: Bug in sudo’s get_process_ttyname() [ CVE-2017-1000367 ]

last updated May 31, 2017 in Security

CVE-2017-1000367
There is a serious vulnerability in sudo command that grants root access to anyone with a shell account. It works on SELinux enabled systems such as CentOS/RHEL and others too. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root. Patch your system as soon as possible.

Is my Linux server or desktop affected by WannaCrypt ransomware?

last updated May 18, 2017 in Security

From my mailbag:

Dear nixCraft,
I run a Debian Linux 8.x on my Desktop and Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS on my Linode cloud server for my personal website. I am concerned that my Linux is affected by the recent Wannacrypt malware. I am reading about a ransomware attack, what do I need to do? Should I be worried?
–Concerned Linux User

How to use parallel ssh (PSSH) for executing ssh in parallel on a number of Linux/Unix/BSD servers

last updated April 21, 2017 in Cloud Computing, Command Line Hacks, Howto

Recently I come across a nice little nifty tool called pssh to run a single command on multiple Linux / UNIX / BSD servers. You can easily increase your productivy with this SSH tool.

More about pssh

pssh is a command line tool for executing ssh in parallel on some hosts. It provides specialties includes:

Sending input to all of the processes
Inputting a password to ssh
Saving output to files
IT/sysadmin taks automation such as patching servers
Timing out and more

Let us see how to install and use pssh on Linux and Unix-like system.

pssh-welcome

Talos Secure POWER8 Linux Workstation With Fully Open Source Firmware

last updated January 9, 2017 in Hardware, Open Source

Raptor Engineering is working and crowdfunding a high-end power8 based desktop computer with zero proprietary firmware blobs in the Talos Secure Workstation. Traditionally IBM, Oracle(Sun), Intel/AMD and others ruled this market segment. But now there is competition to Intel for a desktop computer.
talos openpower

Secure Your Linux Desktop and SSH Login Using Two Factor Google Authenticator

last updated October 29, 2014 in Open Source, Security

Two factor authentication is increasingly becoming a strongly recommended way of protecting user accounts in web applications from attackers by requiring a second method of authentication in addition to the standard username and password pair.

Although two factor authentication can encompass a wide range of techniques like biometrics or smart cards, the most commonly deployed technique in web applications is the one time password. If you have used applications like Gmail, you are probably familiar with the one time password generated by the Google Authenticator app that’s available on iOS or Android devices.

The algorithm used for the one time password in the Google Authenticator app is known as the Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) algorithm. The TOTP algorithm is a standard algorithm approved by the IETF in (RFC 6238) totp-rfc.