‘They’re not closing a security hole, they’re just requiring that everyone use Chrome’Fedora’s maintainer for the open-source Chromium browser package is recommending users consider switching to Firefox following Google’s decision to remove functionality and make it exclusive to its proprietary Chrome browser.…

Source: LXer – Fedora’s Chromium maintainer suggests switching to Firefox as Google yanks features in favour of Chrome

The Unipi Gate G110 and G100 are PLC-ready DIN-rail gateways that run Linux on a quad -A53 SoC with 16GB eMMC, GbE and 10/100 LAN ports, and up to 2x RS485 ports with modular extensions. Czech based Unipi, which started out in 2014 with a Raspberry Pi based UniPi automation controller board and followed up […]

Source: LXer – DIN-rail gateway offers dual LAN and dual RS485

Dynamic port forwarding allows for a great deal of flexibility and secure remote connections. See how to configure and use this SSH feature.

Source: LXer – How to set up SSH dynamic port forwarding on Linux

Ansible is an Infrastructure as Code tool that allows its users to control many servers from a centralized location. In this tutorial, I will describe how to install and configure Ansible on an Ubuntu 20.04 system.

Source: LXer – How to Install Ansible on Ubuntu 20.04

Neousys unveiled a fanless, 112 x 87 x 50mm “POC-40” computer with an up to 3.0GHz, dual-core Atom x6211E plus up to 32GB DDR4, 2x GbE, 4x USB, 3x M.2, and DP, 2x serial, and isolated DIO. Last month, Neousys announced one of the first Intel Elkhart Lake based embedded PCs with its ultra-compact (153 […]

Source: LXer – Rugged mini-PC dips into Elkhart Lake

Here we are! The first Ubuntu Desktop experience on the Raspberry Pi has arrived with Ubuntu 20.10 and it turns out to be quite amazing. In this review, I’m going to tell you what works, what doesn’t, and what needs to be improved.

Source: LXer – Ubuntu 20.10 on the Raspberry Pi 4 Rocks: A Review

The Mozilla Firefox 85 web browser is now available for download, ahead of its official unveiling on January 26th, for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Source: LXer – Mozilla Firefox 85 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New

One of the things I appreciate about Linux versus proprietary operating systems is that almost everything can be managed and configured from the command line. That means that nearly everything can be configured locally or even remotely via an SSH login connection. Sometimes it takes a bit of time spent on Internet searches, but if you can think of a task, it can probably be done from the command line.read more

Source: LXer – Configure a Linux workspace remotely from the command line

A typical bootable USB drive or memory stick can only boot from a single ISO file stored on the drive, which is not only inconvenient but also wasteful for a large USB storage. This tutorial covers how to create a multi-ISO USB drive using an open-source tool called Ventoy.

Source: LXer – How to boot multiple ISO images from one USB drive on Linux

An in depth howto for converting an existing filesystem to BTRFS on Fedora.

Source: LXer – Convert your filesystem to Btrfs

In 10 ways to analyze binary files on Linux, I explained how to use Linux’s rich set of native tools to analyze binaries. But if you want to explore your binary further, you need a tool that is custom-made for binary analysis. If you are new to binary analysis and have mostly worked with scripting languages, 9 essential GNU binutils tools will help you get started learning the compilation process and what constitutes a binary.read more

Source: LXer – Explore binaries using this full-featured Linux tool

The Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) has announced the release of pip
21.0. This version removes Python 2.7 and 3.5 support, and drops support
for legacy cache entries from pip < 20.0.

Source: LWN.net – pip 21.0 has now been released

PDF Arranger 1.7.0 has been released with new features, like the ability to crop white borders, allow export to individual files, allow selection of odd or even pages, support for editing more PDF metadata tags, and more.

Source: LXer – PDF Arranger 1.7.0 Released With New Features And Enhancements

Learn the basics of using Brace Expansion in BASH to become an efficient command line user.

Source: LXer – An Introduction to Brace Expansion in BASH

For a long time, the ifconfig command was the default method for configuring a network interface. It served Linux users well, but networking is complex, and the commands to configure it must be robust. The ip command is the new default networking command for modern systems, and in this article, I’ll show you how to use it.read more

Source: LXer – Why you need to drop ifconfig for ip

A Desktop Environment is an implementation of the desktop metaphor built as a collection of different user and system programs running on top of an operating system, and share a common GUI

Source: Linux Today – 10 Best and Most Popular Linux Desktop Environments of All Time

In Linux, there are limits defined by the system for anything that consumes resources.

Source: Linux Today – How to Change Open File Limit in Linux

Zeal is billed as a simple offline documentation browser. It offers easy access to a huge database of documentation, API manuals, and code snippets.

Source: LXer – Zeal – simple offline documentation browser

The term “browser wars” typically refers to Microsoft’s attempts to
dominate the World Wide Web with its Internet Explorer browser in the
1990s. That effort was thwarted by antitrust efforts and the rise of the
free browser now known as Firefox;
ever since, the web has been defined by free software. Or so some may have
thought. In the 2020s, the browser wars continue with the growing
dominance of Chrome and, it would seem, the imminent removal of Chromium
from many Linux distributions.

Source: LWN.net – [$] The endless browser wars

There’s corporate infiltration inside communities (for oligarchy hunts volunteer, unpaid labour) and those who speak about that as a threat to our cause and objectives are painted as misguided outcasts who must be ignored

Source: LXer – Important Issues Not Entertained in the Community, Especially Critics of the Status Quo