Features
Easy Listening
Exploring the Sayonara audio player
For a simple audio player, check out Sayonara Player, a great choice for enjoying all your favorite music, Internet radio, and podcasts.
Armor On
Mandatory Access Control with AppArmor
Today's security environment is a tumultuous landscape riddled with threats. AppArmor offers an extra ring of protection for your system, and it is easier to learn and implement than many alternative mandatory access control solutions.
Inside Gnome Boxes
A simple virtual machine
For average users, Gnome Boxes offers an easy-to-use virtual machine solution for Linux.
Tutorial – Mastodon
Posting text and images to Mastodon
Creating a custom application that toots text to Mastodon (the Fediverse's version of Twitter) is simple and straightforward. But we can mix it up by adding images and video, scheduling posts, and changing privacy settings.
Install and manage games with Lutris Play Time
If you frequently play games on Linux, you are accustomed to dealing with many different installers and configurations. Lutris can help simplify the process of setting up all your games.
Cleanup
Analyze disk usage with Baobab
Unnecessary files and directories take up valuable space on hard disks or SSDs. Baobab lets you locate and remove data garbage at the push of a button.
McFly upgrades Bash with artificial intelligence
Intelligently Arranged
When it comes to working at the command line, using Bash history effectively can save you time. McFly extends the Bash history's features and helps you find past commands more quickly.
Home Rule
Making smart devices smarter with Tasmota
Flashing IoT devices with new firmware lets you wield control and keep them out of the cloud.
Unification
Cleaning up the filesystem
At long last, Debian joins other Unix-like distributions in merging /usr directories.
Tutorial – Mastodon
Build your own Mastodon client
Creating your own clients to interact with your friends in the Fediverse is easy. A bit of Python and an off-the-shelf module will do the trick.
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