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awk is a scripting language designed for text processing and data extraction, which reads input line by line, splits each line into fields, and allows you to perform operations on those fields. It’s commonly used for tasks like pattern matching, arithmetic calculations, and generating formatted reports.

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Parabolic is a Qt and GTK-based utility which is a frontend for yt-dlp, a feature-rich audio/video downloader. For this article we evaluated Parabolic using Manjaro, an Arch-based distro, as well as the wonderful Ubuntu 24.10 distro.

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Security updates have been issued by Debian (fastnetmon, webkit2gtk, and xen), Fedora (sympa), Oracle (postgresql), and Red Hat (pcp, tigervnc, and xorg-x11-server and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland).

Let’s find out which is better for running apps or games on Linux: wine and its wrappers or virtual machine’s compatibility?

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Coming just a month after Mixxx 2.4.2, which was the last update in the 2.4 series, Mixxx 2.5 is here to port the application to the latest Qt 6 open-source application framework to provide users with a more modern and stylish graphical user interface, improved performance, and enhanced compatibility on modern systems.

The post Mixxx 2.5 Open-Source DJ App Released with Qt 6 Port, Improved Controller Support appeared first on Linux Today.

AI-generated code is vulnerable to attack. Craig McLuckie, co-creator of Kubernetes, shared news about his company’s newly open sourced project, a locally hosted layer of security for AI workflows.

The post CodeGate: Open Source Tool Secures AI Coding Assistants appeared first on Linux Today.

4MLinux 47.0 is here almost four months after 4MLinux 46.0 with support for installing the distro on virtual KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) block devices (e.g. /dev/vda1, /dev/vda2, etc.), as well as support for hundreds of old image formats via RECOIL (Retro Computer Image Library) with its GIMP plugin.

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DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.

The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/
Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DietPi

The project released the new version DietPi v9.9 on December 23th, 2024.

The highlights of this version are:

• Orange Pi 5 Pro, Orange Pi 5 Max, NanoPi M6: New devices (CPU: Octa-Core RK3588)
• NanoPi M1+, Virtual machines: Fixes for these boards/machines
• DietPi-DDNS: Several fixes and enhancements
• frp: Configuration options enhanced (ini file format, authentication token option)
• MineOS: Security enhancements and some fixes
• YaCy, Sonarr: Installation upgrade to newest version
• Logitech Media Server: Renamed to Lyrion Music Server
• Fixes for InfluxDB, Node-RED, Chromium, DietPi-Drive_Manager

The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v9_9/

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FreshRSS 1.25 self-hosted RSS feed aggregator, now requiring PHP 8.1+, brings advanced regex searches, new article policies, UI updates, and more.

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Dubbed “Shine on…”, powered by the latest Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, and synced with the Debian Sid (Unstable) repositories as of December 23rd, 2024, siduction 2024.1.0 ships with the KDE Plasma 6.2, the recently released Xfce 4.20, and the LXQt 2.1 desktop environments.

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The LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 26, 2024 is available.

Discover a step-by-step guide to list all the open ports in your system and stop the services responsible for managing them.

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Discover an amazing free and open-source cross-platform GUI front-end of FFmpeg for basic editing tasks on your laptop or desktop with fewer system resources.

The post LosslessCut: A GUI Front-End for FFmpeg for Audio/Video Editing appeared first on Linux Today.

It is often said that the definition of insanity is repeating the same action and expecting different results. Be that as it may, LWN has repeatedly started a new year with a set of predictions, only to have to review how badly they went at the end. There was no break in that pattern this year, so there is no help for it; the time has come to review our 2024 predictions in the hope that they came out better this time around.

Backups are an essential part of maintaining a healthy and secure Linux system. In case of data loss due to accidental deletion, hardware failure, or system corruption, having a reliable backup solution is crucial. One of the best tools for creating backups on Linux is Restic.

Restic is a fast, secure, and easy-to-use backup tool that supports encryption and deduplication. It allows you to back up your data to various storage locations, such as local drives, network shares, or cloud services such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Backblaze B2.

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Security updates have been issued by Fedora (sympa and tomcat), Red Hat (kernel), and SUSE (poppler).

Evilginx is an open-source man-in-the-middle attack framework designed to phish login credentials and session cookies, enabling attackers to bypass 2FA safeguards. The author of Evilginx emphasizes that the project demonstrates the techniques skilled attackers may employ. The author asserts that it is the responsibility of defenders to consider such threats and develop strategies to protect users from these types of phishing attacks.

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When managing a web server, it’s crucial to ensure that your data is safe and can be quickly restored in case of failure. One of the most reliable ways to back up and mirror web server data is by using rsync.

rsync tool helps synchronize files and directories between two servers, making it ideal for creating backups and mirrors of your web server data.

In this article, we will guide you through the process of syncing your web server with a backup server using rsync. We will also set up passwordless login to automate the synchronization process using cron for scheduled backups.

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4MLinux is a miniature Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and mystery (providing several small Linux games). The distribution includes support for booting on UEFI-enabled machines.

The purpose of this article is to list the finest open source lightweight frameworks to kick start CSS and HTML projects. They help to save precious time by saving designers from writing base CSS styles, and solving problematic layout issues.

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