Virtual Date Optimizer is a block virtualization technology that provides inline deduplication and compression of data at a block device level.

Source: Linux Today – How to Create a VDO Volume On a Storage Device on RHEL 8

‘We all use other people’s code’Enigma In a chilly conference room at the San Francisco’s Hyatt Regency on Monday, legal and digital security pros convened at USENIX’s Enigma conference to hold forth on security, privacy, and related matters.…

Source: LXer – ‘Trust no one’ is good enough for the X Files but not for software devs: How do you use third-party libs and stay secure, experts mull on stage

Learn how to use the DEBIAN_FRONTEND shell variable for IT automation in shell script

Source: Linux Today – Explain DEBIAN_FRONTEND apt-get variable for Ubuntu / Debian Linux servers

Kingpin: Life of Crime is being remastered with 3D Realms recently announced Kingpin: Reloaded bringing new life to the Quake II engine classic.

Source: LXer – Get ready to live a Life of Crime with Kingpin: Reloaded announced by 3D Realms – will be coming to Linux

Learn to use chown with some practical examples.

Source: Linux Today – How to Use chown Command to Change Ownership in Linux

The Battle for Wesnoth is an open-source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. It features both single-player and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.

Source: LXer – How to Install Battle for Wesnoth Open-Source Strategy Game on Debian 10

ExTiX 20.2 distribution has been released today and it appears to be the first GNU/Linux distribution to be based on the upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS operating system and the Linux 5.5 kernel series.

Source: LXer – ExTiX 20.2 Is the First Distro to Be Based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Linux Kernel 5.5

The web hosting industry has blown up in recent years, and therefore making for an increasingly competitive market. Web hosting companies have now had to adapt, evolve and keep their prices lateral or less than their competitors. Hosting providers are clamoring to offer the extra features, stronger security, better support, faster performance, or easiest design tools needed to attract your business.

Source: LXer – Best Web Hosting services for 2020

Polr is a free and open-source URL shortener that allows you to host your own link shortener. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Polr Link Shortener on Debian 10 server.

Source: LXer – How to Install Polr Link Shortener on Debian 10

The GNU Linux-Libre 5.5 kernel has been released today as a 100% free version of the Linux 5.5 kernel, shipping only with free and open source drivers.

Source: LXer – GNU Linux-Libre 5.5 Kernel Arrives for Those Seeking 100% Freedom for Their PCs

The iptables command is a powerful interface for your local Linux firewall. It provides thousands of network traffic management options through a simple syntax.

Source: LXer – Sysadmin tools: How to use iptables

Axiomtek’s Linux-friendly “CEM520” is a COM Express Basic Type 6 module with an Intel 8th Gen “Coffee Lake” Core or Xeon CPU, 4x SATA, PCIe x16, 8x PCIe x1, and support for -20 to 70°C and triple independent displays. Axiomtek has released the Intel 8th Gen based CEM520, which follows its earlier 6th Gen Skylake […]

Source: LXer – Coffee Lake module boasts extended temp operation

Today, using serverless means choosing a cloud platform to lock yourself into. The open source project expected to fix that is approaching prime time.

Source: LXer – Explaining Knative, the Project to Liberate Serverless from Cloud Giants

The 5.5 kernel was released on
January 26. Over the course of this development cycle, it was
occasionally said that the holidays were slowing contributions. At the
end, though, 5.5 saw the merging of 14,350 non-merge changesets from 1,885
developers — not exactly a slow-moving cycle. Indeed, 5.5 just barely
edged out 5.4 as the kernel with the most developers ever. Read on for our
traditional look at where the contributions to 5.5 came from, along with a
digression into the stable-update process.

Source: LWN.net – [$] Some 5.5 kernel development statistics

Last year, I brought you 19 days of new (to you) productivity tools for 2019. This year, I’m taking a different approach: building an environment that will allow you to be more productive in the new year, using tools you may or may not already be using.read more

Source: LXer – Use Vim to manage your task list and access Reddit and Twitter

Build a personal cloud using Fedora and Nextcloud.

Source: LXer – Build your own cloud with Fedora 31 and Nextcloud Server

The Solus 4.1 operating system has been released as refreshed installation medium for all supported flavors, adding new features, improvements, and updated components.

Source: LXer – Solus 4.1 Released with Zstd Compression, Improved Gaming

How systemd path units work together with service units to monitor files and directories and trigger actions on changes.

Source: Linux Today – Using systemd Path Units to Monitor Files and Trigger Actions on Changes

In this article we describe how to install the command line utility Jpegoptim on your Debian. We will also explain different ways you can use this program to optimize and compress your jpeg image files.

Source: LXer – Optimize Jpeg/jpg Images through the Debian Command line

Kubenvaders is a Gamified Chaos Engineering tool for Kubernetes and Openshift and helps test how resilient your Kubernetes cluster is, in a fun way.

Source: Linux Today – KubeInvaders – Gamified Chaos Engineering Tool for Kubernetes