How containers and microservices change security

Parrot 3.9 – Call for beta testers

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 17 Oct 2017

Reproducible Builds: Weekly report #129

X.Org Server Security Vulnerability Patched in Ubuntu 17.04, 16.04 and 14.04 LTS

X.Org Server is not as secure as we'd like, that's why more and more GNU/Linux distributions are trying to migrate to the next-generation Wayland display server, whose design offers us an extra layer of security. Canonical recently published a new security advisory informing users of the Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus), Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) operating systems about a recent security vulnerability affecting the xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-16.04, and xorg-server-lts-xenial packages.

Oracle Releases VM VirtualBox 5.2

It was more than one year ago that VirtualBox 5.1 was released while today it's finally been succeeded by a new feature release.

Franz Combines all Your Messaging Apps in a Single Application

Franz is a free to use application that combines different messaging services like WhatsApp, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, Gmail, Telegram, Skype, Slack and other chat applications in one application.

ClipGrab: Video Downloader and Converter Updated for Ubuntu/Linux Mint (PPA)

ClipGrab is a free software to download and convert videos from different famous sites of Internet. You can easily save your favorite videos from sites like Dailymotion or Vimeo. And you can convert these videos into "usable" formats like WMV, MPEG or MP3. You can check here which sites are supported by this software.

Gammu 1.38.5

Today, Gammu 1.38.5 has been released. After long period of bugfix only releases, this comes with several new noteworthy features.

Watch Out Upgrading To Linux 4.14 If You Use AppArmor

Just a quick public service announcement if you rely upon AppArmor for security on your Linux distribution like Ubuntu/Debian and plan to soon upgrade to the Linux 4.14 kernel...

New hotness: xfce4-notifyd 0.4.0

After quite some development time I have decided to push out xfce4-notifyd 0.4.0 today. This is not just a bugfix, but a feature-packed release.

Xfce Gets Notification Improvements With xfce4-notifyd 0.4

For users of the Xfce4 desktop environment, a new release of xfce4-notifyd 0.4 is now available as the project's newest feature release.

GTK+ 3.92 Released With Many Improvements & New Features

Matthias Clasen has today released GTK+ 3.92 as the latest test release in the long road towards the major GTK4 tool-kit update. GTK+ 3.92 features Vulkan improvements, more widget reworking, continued Emoji support, and more. Highlights of changes found in this GTK+ 3.92 update include:

SteelCloud Expands Linux STIG Support to Ubuntu, SUSE, and Oracle Linux

SteelCloud LLC announced today that it has enhanced ConfigOS, its patented STIG remediation software, to support the newly released Ubuntu, SUSE, and Oracle Linux STIGs. These new supported platforms bolster the product's existing Red Hat Linux automated STIG remediation capabilities. The expanded ConfigOS Linux security content will be provided to new and existing customers at no additional charge.

How To Install Google Web fonts In Ubuntu

Learn how to program in Python by building a simple dice game

Proxy Models in Container Environments

Install a Centralized Log Server with Rsyslog in Debian 9

10 Strace Commands for Troubleshooting and Debugging Linux Processes

How To Protect Hard and Symbolic Links in CentOS/RHEL 7

How to install or compile GIMP filters/plugins/extensions on Linux

check_mk error Cannot fetch deployment URL via curl error

Tips to Secure Your Network in the Wake of KRACK

What Are the Hidden Files in my Linux Home Directory For?

Command & Conquer Special Editions 1-3

Business Management System: Install WebERP on Ubuntu 16.04

AMDKFD Preps More Carrizo/Kaveri Code For Linux 4.15 While dGPU Lags

The AMDKFD kernel driver that is a component of HSA support on Linux for Radeon GPUs is seeing more upstreaming work in Linux 4.15, but only for older APUs.

Automotive Grade Linux Adds Five New Members Including First Voice Recognition and Digital Marketing Members

Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), a collaborative cross-industry effort developing an open platform for the connected car, is announcing that five new members have joined the project including Adobe, Desay SV Automotive, Fiberdyne Systems, Nuance and Trend Micro.

AMD Releases AMDGPU-PRO Beta Driver For Mining / Compute Customers

Radeon GPU Profiler 1.03 Released

AMD's GPUOpen initiative has put out a new release of their Windows and Linux supported Radeon GPU Profiler program for profiling Vulkan (and Direct3D 12) games.