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ESET researchers have identified multiple samples of two previously unknown Linux backdoors: WolfsBane and FireWood.

The goal of the backdoors and tools discovered is cyberespionage that targets sensitive data such as system information, user credentials, and specific files and directories. These tools are designed to maintain persistent access and execute commands stealthily, enabling prolonged intelligence gathering while evading detection.

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Fedora Media Writer is a free and open-source application to write any ISO image to your USB stick on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

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Stephanie Domas, CISO at Canonical, discusses common misconceptions about open-source security and how the community can work to dispel them. She explains how open-source solutions, contrary to myths, offer enterprise-grade maturity, reliability, and transparency.

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Debian 13’s desktop artwork survey is now open and awaits your vote. Before November 30, pick your favorite theme and decide on Trixie’s look.

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Gaupol is a free and open-source subtitle editor that allows anyone to easily create or edit subtitle files and supports multiple subtitle formats.

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My humble Fujitsu Futro S720 running Debian makes a decent home server. But it has one weakness: the power button is too easy to press by accident, which shuts down the machine. I know that, because I’ve done it several times. Not the end of the world, but a mild nuisance I can leave without. Turned out, it’s an easy problem to solve.

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OpenWeather Refined is a GNOME shell extension which displays weather information for any location.

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Discover a step-by-step guide to easily add the current or desired user to the Docker group and reflect the change immediately.

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Discover a step-by-step guide to install Tmux on Ubuntu and other Linux distros, and then its usage with practical examples.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux becomes an official WSL distro, featuring modern tar-based distro packaging and improved developer user experience.

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Oracle Linux 9.5 debuts with OpenJDK 17, .NET 9, GCC Toolset 14, improved Python performance, and robust multi-cloud computing support.

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Coming more than three months after Mesa 24.2, the Mesa 24.3 release is here to introduce Vulkan 1.3 conformance for the V3DV graphics driver for Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 devices, which should give the Raspberry Pi OS distribution a serious graphics boost the next time you update it. In addition, the V3DV driver received support for the VK_KHR_shader_relaxed_extended_instruction Vulkan extension.

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Alligator is a convergent, cross-platform feed reader, supporting standard RSS/Atom feeds. It’s built using KDE Frameworks and Qt.

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Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.3 is here with faster backups, SDN-firewall integration, webhook notifications, and improved hypervisor migration.

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Looking to switch from Windows? Here are a number of reasons why you should consider Linux as your next operating system

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The tools featured here make it very simple to view 3D models.

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Discover the step-by-step guide to easily installing the Firefox nightly package using the Mozilla-provided APT repository.

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 celebrated Kubernetes’ 10th anniversary with major announcements, cloud-native certifications, and key updates from CNCF graduated projects.

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Here’s our verdict on the best free and open source Rust web micro-frameworks.

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FrankenPHP is a modern PHP app server built on Go and C that comes with a Caddy server to redefine traditional PHP servers and outshine competitors.

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