Short Bytes: The Debian Project has announced the release of eight stable update of Debian 8 jessie. Debian GNU/Linux 8.8 comes with many package updates, 60+ bug fixes, and 90 security fixes. As it’s not a new major version release, the existing users who are already having all the latest security updates installed don’t need to do anything. […]
Short Bytes: The Debian Project has released the seventh update of Debian 8 Jessie. This release ships with tons of security updates, bug fixes, and updated packages. The existing users of Debian 8 need to point the apt package tool to one of the updated Debian mirrors and get the update. The new installation media and ISO images […]
Short Bytes: Soon you may witness automatic upgrades in Debian GNU/Linux operating system. For a secure experience by default, this proposal was made during the Debian Cloud sprint in November. Due to various criticalities involved, initially, this feature could be limited to new cloud installations. Debian GNU/Linux is regarded as a rock-solid Linux distribution that has […]
Short Bytes: Debian GNU/Linux 8.6, the sixth maintenance update of stable Debian 8 ‘Jessie’, has arrived. The existing Debian users need to perform the upgrade to grab the numerous updated packages and security updates. This version arrives ahead of the next year’s anticipated Debian 9 ‘Stretch’. The Debian Project has announced the release of the sixth update […]
Short Bytes: The GNU/Linux naming controversy has been there for years. Over the time, the name Linux has been used for the operating systems which have Linux Kernel and GNU Software. But there have been strong opinion clashes on the matter whether the operating systems should be called Linux or GNU/Linux. One of the biggest controversies […]
Short Bytes: Q4OS is a Debian-based open source Linux distribution that comes with Trinity desktop environment, which is forked from KDE. The latest release, Q4OS 1.6.2 ‘Orion’, improves the previous version and fixes the bugs reported by users. The existing Q4OS 1.6 or 1.6.1 OS users are advised to update their systems to the latest […]
Short Bytes: GNU has released the latest version of Bash, GNU Project’s shell. The latest Bash 4.4 version arrives with new environmental variables and new arguments supported by existing commands. This release also brings along many changes to GNU Readline. Bash, Bourne Again SHell, is GNU Project’s shell that was released as a free software replacement […]
Review your cronjobs for rogue wget downloads. On June 9, the GNU wget project released version 1.18 of its famous file downloading package, following a report from security researcher Dawid Golunski and SecuriTeam. Almost a month later, the reported vulnerability (CVE-2016-4971) is still not patched in all Linux distros that include this utility in their standard […]
Short Bytes: Do you want to learn the basics of Emacs text editor? Well, here is a basic tutorial for you to get started. For those who don’t know, GNU Emacs is a widely popular text editor that comes with a wide range of functionality. I‘ve recently started learning Emacs, and in this post, I will be […]
Both Amazon and Apple are in the same boat.GNU.org has a category on its website named “Philosophy of the GNU Project” where the Microsoft software is described as malware, along with Apple and Amazon. It’s not all that clear why these statements exist on the GNU.org website, even if it’s powered by FSF (Free Software […]
Richard Stallman, the famous creator of GNU operating system, which is often called Linux, opined in a post in The Guardian that almost every operating system in use today can be qualified as malware. The list goes on with today’s popular mobile platforms as well as desktop operating systems. Stallman emphasizes that any software program […]
Vifm What is Vifm (Vi File Manager)? Vifm is a ncurses library based file manager for Linux which allows you to perform almost every file related task (like viewing, moving, deleting etc) right from the shell. It has no GUI, so each task needs to be performed using the keyboard. This might seem odd to some […]