Features
Serving Up GRUB
Understanding the GRUB 2 bootloader
Deeper knowledge of the GRUB 2 bootloader will help you with troubleshooting and customizing your Linux boot environment.
Hey Linux, Go Home
Create a standalone GPS system with offline maps
Use a low-cost GPS module and Navit to build a portable GPS system.
Art Time
Putting the Affinity graphics suite on Linux
Affinity is an award-winning photo editing, graphic design, and page layout tool suite that will run on Linux – with a little help from Wine.
The Tracer
Troubleshooting with strace
The strace command-line utility helps you diagnose complex problems by revealing details about the interaction between applications and the Linux kernel.
Rules and Logs
Monitoring Linux system calls with Falco
Create your own rules to detect threats by monitoring system calls.
CSV and Me
Useful tricks for processing CSV files
With a few tools, you can harness the data available in even the most troublesome CSV files.
Snowflake
Building reproducible development environments
Nix flakes modernize the Nix package manager's promise of reproducible builds with structured project definitions and built-in dependency locking, making Nix code more shareable across projects.
Mesh Marvel
Messaging off the grid with Meshtastic
Want to communicate without relying on mobile networks? Meshtastic lets you create your own off-the-grid wireless mesh network with an inexpensive LoRa device and an Android phone.
Chatterbox
Real-time communication with Python
A beginner-friendly guide to building a chat client-server with sockets and multithreading.
Manage Your Audio Life
The de facto Linux sound-mixing system
PipeWire lets you transparently handle ALSA, JACK, and PulseAudio applications, making it useful for both general and professional audio users.
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Nitrux 6.0 Now Ready to Rock Your World
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Keep Android Open
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Kernel 7.0 Now in Testing
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Introducing matrixOS, an Immutable Gentoo-Based Linux Distro
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Chaos Comes to KDE in KaOS
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New Linux Botnet Discovered
The SSHStalker botnet uses IRC C2 to control systems via legacy Linux kernel exploits.
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The Next Linux Kernel Turns 7.0
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Linux From Scratch Drops SysVinit Support
LFS will no longer support SysVinit.
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LibreOffice 26.2 Now Available
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