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In Living Color
Color management on Linux
Get a grasp of color management basics and put your knowledge to practical use.
Performance at a Glance
Performance analysis with iostat, sar, Ksar, collectd, and serverstats
We describe five tools you can use to monitor and troubleshoot your system's performance.
Socket Wrench
Troubleshooting sockets with ss
The unassuming ss utility is easy to understand and easy to type, but it adds some powerful options to your admin toolkit.
Wrapped with a Bow on Top
Build Debian packages and offer them in PPAs
Is the current package for your favorite Ubuntu program woefully behind the times? No problem: Just a few steps creates an updated Debian package that you can then share with others in a PPA.
Magic Potion
Functional programming with Elixir
Developers will appreciate Elixir's ability to build distributed, fault-tolerant, and scalable applications.
On the Trail
Root out rootkits
Detect rootkits, worms, and other malware with chkrootkit.
NIC Check
Managing your network interface with ethtool
If ping won't solve your network configuration issues, try ethtool, a powerful utility that lets you manage configuration settings for your network interface card.
Salt and Pepper
Hashes, salt, and pepper
Cryptographic hash functions help you protect your passwords, but hashing is only secure if properly understood.
Getting Parallel
Creating parallel applications with the Julia programming language
Parallel processing is indispensable today – particularly in the field of natural sciences and engineering. Normal desktop users, however, can also benefit from higher performance through parallel execution with at least four calculation cores.
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Pine64 Halts Production of Linux Devices
With continued DRAM and eMMC shortages, Pine64 has decided to discontinue production of Linux devices.
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The Bullet-Proof KDE Software Initiative Is Coming
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Linux Mint Shares a Possible Kernel Cleanup Solution
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CachyOS Gets an Update
CachyOS August 2026 release is now available with the latest version of KDE, some new features, and plenty of improvements.
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The Linux Kernel Dev Staging Area Now Rejects AI-Generated Patches
Unless a kernel patch is a valid security fix, it will be rejected if it was created using AI.
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Linux Surpasses Double-Digit Market Share
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AI Helped Develop a Linux Exploit
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Yet Another Linux Kernel Vulnerability Discovered
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