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Geeqie (pronounced geeky) doesn’t come up often in conversations about useful Linux photography tools, and that’s a crying shame. Because despite its simple looks, Geeqie is a truly versatile and genuinely useful tool for managing RAW files and photos.

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The step-by-step guide to encrypt the home folder in Ubuntu 24.04, 23.04, or 22.04 with practical examples.

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Fedora Project Leader (FPL) Matthew Miller writes that he will soon be hanging up the FPL hat:

Stay tuned for a job posting from Red Hat, and details about all that. I'm hoping we can hire someone awesome early in 2025, and make the official handover on the release of auspiciously-numbered Fedora Linux 42.

I'm not going to leave Fedora, though. As I said above, although it might not always feel like it from the outside, Red Hat support for Fedora is stronger than ever, and I plan on helping that grow even more. I'm stepping into a full-time management role in the Community Linux Engineering organization, so Fedora will still be part of my day job, just in a different way.

To improve the security of your Linux system, you can do a full disk encryption both during and after the installation in Ubuntu.

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In a session at Open Source Summit Europe (OSSEU) back in September, Alex Bucknall gave an overview of a camera "trap"—a device to capture images in a non-intrusive way—that he helped develop which is being used to monitor seagrass. He works for the Arribada Initiative, which is a non-profit organization focused on creating open-source technology for studying wildlife and ecosystems. The camera system uses the Zephyr realtime operating system (RTOS) on an open platform that is designed to be inexpensive and usable for multiple applications.

Linux Mint climbs to the number one spot on DistroWatch, unseating MX Linux after five years of dominance in the popular ranking.

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Linux is the backbone of many machine learning (ML) workflows. With its powerful command-line interface, Linux gives engineers the flexibility and control needed for a smooth ML experience.

Over the past decade, I’ve come to understand the significance of mastering a variety of Linux commands to boost productivity, streamline tasks, and manage resources efficiently.

Whether you’re setting up an environment, managing files, or optimizing code, Linux provides a robust toolkit to support your machine learning journey.

This article covers the essential Linux commands that every machine learning engineer should know, with explanations designed for beginners but detailed enough for experienced users.

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Arch Linux is a powerful, lightweight Linux distribution that gives users complete control over their systems. However, it’s not the most beginner-friendly OS, and many users can feel overwhelmed when starting.

To make your Arch Linux journey smoother, here’s a cheat sheet of essential commands that will help you manage and navigate your system confidently.

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Learn how to use “ed”, the oldest line editor in Unix/Linux, to create, edit, display, and manipulate files with practical examples.

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Version 1.0.0 of the GNU Shepherd service manager has been released after a mere 21 years of development.

This 1.0.0 release is published today because we think Shepherd has become a solid tool, meeting user experience standards one has come to expect since systemd changed the game of free init systems and service managers alike. It's also a major milestone for Guix, which has been relying on the Shepherd from a time when doing so counted as dogfooding.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (postgresql:15, postgresql:16, and ruby:3.1), Debian (jinja2), Fedora (python-multipart, python-python-multipart, python3.12, retsnoop, rust-rbspy, rust-rustls, and zabbix), Oracle (kernel, libsoup, postgresql:12, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, redis:7, and ruby:3.1), SUSE (nodejs18, pam, qt6-webengine, and radare2), and Ubuntu (dogtag-pki, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, ofono, rabbitmq-server, and webkit2gtk).

Version:next-20241210 (linux-next) Released:2024-12-10

When the Fedora Engineering Steering Council (FESCo) is up for election, the project posts interviews of the candidates in order to help Fedora contributors make an informed choice. This year, the candidates are Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Tomáš Hrčka, Josh Stone, David Cantrell, Fabio Alessandro Locati, and Kevin Fenzi. All of them except for Locati are current members of the steering council. Voting is open until December 20.

A machine or other devices connected to your router usually have a dynamic IP address. The DHCP server will assign a dynamic IP address for your device connected to the network. That same device will likely get a different IP address when connected to the network later. To get a static IP address for your machine, we need to configure it. Netplan has been the default tool for configuring Linux networking on Ubuntu machines since 2016. It is a utility designed to make network configuration easier and more descriptive. This article will show you how to configure a static IP address on Ubuntu 24.04.

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pwall is billed as a modern style photo/video viewer and organizer. It shows the folders of your photos main directory in the left pane and a photowall in the right.

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One of the types of software that’s important for a web developer is the web framework. In this article we pick the best Rust web backend frameworks.

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CasaOS is a simple home server OS for Debian-based Linux machines. Learn how to install and use CasaOS to manage your homelab server now.

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In 2019, the Python community had a lengthy discussion about changing the rules (that some find counterintuitive) on using break, continue, or return statements in finally blocks. These are all ways of jumping out of a finally block, which can interrupt the handling of a raised exception. At the time, the Python developers chose not to change things, because the consensus was that the existing behavior was not a problem. Now, after a report put together by Irit Katriel, the project is once again considering changing the language.

For this instalment in the series, we examine the power consumption of the DreamQuest N100 Mini PC and compare it to four other machines.

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The OpenWrt project has issued an advisory regarding a vulnerability found in its Attended Sysupgrade Server that could allow compromised packages to be installed on a router by an attacker. No official OpenWrt images were affected, and the vulnerability is not known to be exploited, but users who have installed images created with an instance of this server are recommended to reinstall.

For a detailed description of how the exploit works, see this blog post.

Then, as the hash collision occurred, the server returns the overwritten build artifact to the legitimate request that requests the following packages. [...]

By abusing this, an attacker could force the user to upgrade to the malicious firmware, which could lead to the compromise of the device.