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Linux Crisis Tools
When you have an outage caused by a performance issue, you don't want to lose precious...
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An invention to silence reggaeton with artificial intelligence
Roni Bandini once woke up every day to reggaeton songs that his neighbor blasted at full...
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Linux on the desktop is gaining ground
Linux on the desktop is enjoying something of a resurgence in popularity as the age-old battle...
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Linux Kernel 6.8 Released Goes Big on Hardware Support
With every Linux kernel release, we have numerous refinements and features. And, Linux kernel 6.8 is...
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Linux kernel security tunables everyone should consider adopting
The Linux kernel is the heart of many modern production systems. It decides when any code...
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What Is Free Software?
“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users...
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Ruby is better than Python for Unix-like system administration
Ruby was conceived by a man who worked a lot in Perl and Unix. This is...
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How to debug C and C++ programs with rr (2021)
The common theme in many time-travel movies is to go back in time to find out...
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The Dumbing-Down of Programming
Last month I committed an act of technical rebellion: I bought one operating system instead of...
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Ubuntu 'command-not-found' tool can be abused to spread malware
A logic flaw between Ubuntu's 'command-not-found' package suggestion system and the snap package repository could enable...
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Building and Privately Caching x86 and Aarch64 NixOS Systems with GitHub Actions
In the previous article we walked through how to set up our very own Nix binary...
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Six lesser-known but seriously useful Linux commands
People are creatures of habit. That assertion has both good and bad connotations. The good is...