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NetBird is an open-source solution that integrates a configuration-free peer-to-peer private network with centralized access control, providing a single platform to build secure private networks for your organization or home.

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In this article, you will learn how to check the log or history of a user’s failed login attempts using the lastb command on Linux.

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Highlights of GStreamer 1.26 include H.266 Versatile Video Coding (VVC) codec support, Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC) support, H.264/H.265 extractor/inserter for closed captions, H.266 video and rotation tag support for Matroska, and JPEG XS image codec support.

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Actual Budget is an open-source finance management software focused on privacy and built on top of “Envelope Style Budgeting”. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install the Actual Budgeting System on the Debian 12 server.

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Using Mesa 25.1, Nouveau users will default to Zink+NVK instead of the old OpenGL driver, shifting towards an OpenGL on Vulkan.

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KDE Plasma 6.3.3 arrives with improvements to the UI, system, and apps, including better DRM handling, smoother updates, and refined animations.

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Kitty 0.40 GPU-accelerated terminal emulator brings font size flexibility, better underline rendering, and more.

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The biggest change in the new IPFire release is the switch to the latest LTS (Long-Term Support) kernel branch, namely Linux 6.12 LTS, a major update from the Linux 6.6 LTS kernel series used until now, along with a new driver for Realtek 8812au chips, a set of firmware for Raspberry Pi SBCs, and U-Boot 2024.10.

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LXQt 2.2 desktop environment is coming with better Wayland support, improved QTerminal, and fixes across the board.

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Debian-based Sparky semi-rolling Sparky Semi-Rolling 2025.03 update is out now featuring Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, Xfce 4.20, LXQt 2.1, and more.

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LXQt 2.2 promises to further improve the Wayland session introduced in the LXQt 2.1 release and flagged as experimental. In LXQt 2.2, the Wayland session will still be experimental, but it will let you set the default compositor and the screen locker by distribution or system-wide.

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This blog post will explain everything about the 429 Too Many Requests Error. From how it can occur, the reason for that, and the possible fixes. The “429 too many requests” is an HTTP response. It comes from the server when too many consecutive requests are sent to the server quickly. The server tells you “to stop sending requests” for a while and try again later. In this case, the client exceeded the rate limit set on a server level. The server must have these limits to prevent overload and unnecessary downtime.

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Imagine you’re trying to send yourself a letter, but instead of walking to the post office, you drop it into your own mailbox. That’s essentially what a loopback address does in the world of networking.

The loopback address is a type of IP address that allows a computer to send network traffic back to itself. In the IPv4 addressing scheme, this address is commonly 127.0.0.1. In IPv6, it’s ::1. This network traffic never leaves the computer that sent the request, meaning there is no way for outside systems or networks to know that this loopback network activity is happening.

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A .htpasswd file typically creates and updates stored usernames and passwords for HTTP users using HTTP authentication. You must create a .htpasswd file to secure the website’s content, whether the primary URL or some subdirectory. Only authorized users will be able to access the website’s source. The username and password in the file are inline, separated by a colon. The username is stored in plain text, and the password is hashed, usually with MD5 encryption.

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You know how frustrating it can be if you’ve ever encountered the ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED error while browsing. This error typically means that your browser cannot resolve the domain name into an IP address, preventing you from accessing a website. Computers have IP addresses assigned to communicate with other computers on the network. As IP addresses can be challenging to memorize, we often turn to easy-to-remember domain names to reach specific computers on a network. The Domain Name System (DNS) acts as a digital phone book with names correlating to domain names and phone numbers translating to IP addresses. A DNS shows which domain points to which IP address to reach that particular server.

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The process is simple. You first create a model or download one. Then you slice the model and save it. And finally you print the file. Linux offers a good range of open source software to help you create models as well as software to edit and slice the 3D model files.

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Learn how to enable the GRUB menu on a Linux system running on a virtual machine, such as a VirtualBox or VMware, with two methods.

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March’s Steam Client update brings remote demo management, improved game notes, bug fixes, enhanced Steam Input support, and more.

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LXD 6.3 system container manager brings Pure Storage support, Ubuntu Pro auto-attachment, NVIDIA GPU pass-through, and more.

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Linux systems provide a variety of system services (such as process management, login, syslog, cron, etc.) and network services (such as remote login, e-mail, printers, web hosting, data storage, file transfer, domain name resolution (using DNS), dynamic IP address assignment (using DHCP), and much more).

Technically, a service is a process or group of processes (commonly known as daemons) running continuously in the background, waiting for requests to come in (especially from clients).

Linux supports different ways to manage (start, stop, restart, enable auto-start at system boot, etc.) services, typically through a process or service manager. Most if not all modern Linux distributions now use the same process manager: systemd.

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