VLC, a popular open source media player for multiple platforms including Linux, was said to have a vulnerability that was left unpatched from about a year ago by a German researcher. The vulnerability was supposedly … Read more
In a recent tweet on the project’s twitter page, the team behind Antergos recently announced that it would be discontinuing the project. While this came as a big shock to the community, the developers described … Read more
Solus, an operating system with a rather colorful history as Solus OS, having been based on Debian at one point, is now released as a rolling distribution, most recently in the form of Solus 4.0 … Read more
Fare thee well to the misused ideas of others. Coinhive, a crypto-mining operation being used in the place of embedded javascript ads on websites is closing its doors for good. Coinhive was a nifty idea, … Read more
The Swap partition is something that is debated by computer enthusiasts today within Linux. The Swap partition allows the system to suspend when not in use, hibernate, and it is instrumental in swapping out pages … Read more
When installing a snap package in Linux, Ubuntu users have snapd, a snap daemon, already installed into their system. This means that as of 18.04.x you can now install snap packages as sudo snap packagename. … Read more
User prompting can be done in at least a couple of different ways in bash. User prompting is useful when you are drafting a project or an important scripting job for someone else to use … Read more
When writing scripts, it is often important to use and declare variables. Declaring variables is super easy. There are multiple ways to declare them, but they each work the same way. One way that I … Read more
When performing command line tasks or (CLI) jobs in Linux, it can become tedious when there is a lot to do, for instance, working as an administrator for a small/medium/large company. Automation is very helpful … Read more
As I stated previously, there is no shortage in software for Linux. Each task seems to have more than one really good application. Here I will go over 10 things I can’t do without/ or … Read more
