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Speech Note is an open-source, privacy-focused application that offers offline Speech to Text (STT), Text to Speech (TTS), and Machine Translation (MT) capabilities. With Speech Note, you can take, read, and translate notes in multiple languages.

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The 6.11.2, 6.10.13, and 6.6.54 stable kernels have been released. They contain important fixes, and upgrading is, as always, recommended.

The SUSE Security Team Blog has a detailed report on its discovery of a privilege escalation in the oath-toolkit, which provides libraries and utilities for managing one-time password (OTP) authentication.

Fellow SUSE engineer Fabian Vogt approached our Security Team about the project's PAM module. A couple of years ago, the module gained a feature which allows to place the OTP state file (called usersfile) in the home directory of the to-be-authenticated user. Fabian noticed that the PAM module performs unsafe file operations in users' home directories. Since PAM stacks typically run as root, this can easily cause security issues.

FlexGet is a multipurpose automation tool for all of your media.

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Version:6.11.2 (stable) Released:2024-10-04 Source:linux-6.11.2.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.11.2.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.11.2

Version:6.10.13 (stable) Released:2024-10-04 Source:linux-6.10.13.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.10.13.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.10.13

Version:6.6.54 (longterm) Released:2024-10-04 Source:linux-6.6.54.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.54.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.54

The Vivaldi browser unveiled a sleek new look and an experimental Dashboard in its latest snapshot. Here’s more on that!

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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, golang, linux-firmware, and thunderbird), Debian (kernel and zabbix), Fedora (firefox, pgadmin4, and php), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable, cjson, hostapd and wpa_supplicant, and openjpeg2), Oracle (firefox, flatpak, and go-toolset:ol8), Red Hat (cups-filters, firefox, grafana, linux-firmware, python3, python3.11, and python3.9), SUSE (expat, firefox, libpcap, and opensc), and Ubuntu (freeradius, imagemagick, and unzip).

Discover a step-by-step guide to installing OBS Studio on your Ubuntu system and other Linux distros with practical examples.

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qBittorrent 5.0 brings powerful upgrades: pause/resume all, time limits, regex filters, trash support, large torrent creation, and much more.

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Version:next-20241004 (linux-next) Released:2024-10-04

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 14 useful Linux logfile viewers. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone needing to examine and process logfile data.

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FTP servers are the piece of software that allows you to create an FTP connection between your local computer and a web server. ProFTPD is an FTP server for Unix/Linux servers, very configurable and very effective, it is free & open-sourced, and released under the GPL license.

In this article, we’ll walk you through how to install and configure ProFTPD on Ubuntu and Debian systems. We’ll cover installing the server, setting up user accounts, configuring it for security, and testing the setup.

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NetworkManager 1.50 is here four months after NetworkManager 1.48 and introduces support matching an OVS system interface by MAC address, the ability to specify a system OVS interface by MAC address, support for multiple gateways for a single network, and support for configuring the channel width in AP mode for Wi-Fi.

The post NetworkManager 1.50 Adds Support for Configuring Wi-Fi Channel Width in AP Mode appeared first on Linux Today.

Creating a Debian package repository is a great way to manage software for your projects or to share your packages with others. In this article, we’ll go through the steps to set up a Debian package repository on Sourceforge using Reprepro on Ubuntu 24.04. We’ll break it down into simple steps so that it’s easy to follow, even if you’re new to this process.

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In this tutorial, we will explain the Linux SED command using some real examples. SED (Stream Editor) is one of the most used Linux commands in scripts and command lines. It searches, replaces, inserts, and deletes strings. The most common use for the SED command is to find and replace a string in a file without opening it, saving time. System administrators regularly use this command while writing scripts and automating tasks on the server.

In the next paragraphs, we will teach you everything you need to know about the SED command. Let’s get started!

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Mission Center is a modern system monitoring tool designed for Linux desktops, offering a sleek interface and robust features.

It provides detailed insights into various aspects of your computer, such as CPU, memory, disk, network, and GPU usage. This tool is particularly useful for developers, system administrators, and anyone interested in understanding how their system resources are utilized.

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Find out the File Smuggling technique to secretly share the executable file from an email provider, such as Gmail, without getting blocked.

The post How to Attach an Executable File to Your Email (Works on Gmail) appeared first on Linux Today.

Learn how to eliminate the hassle of typing your password for every sudo command in Linux, whether you want to run specific commands or even all of them, with this step-by-step guide.

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