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Latest Posts
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Fedora Wants to Add Telemetry To its Linux Distribution
A proposal by a Red Hat engineer is causing controversy in the Fedora community, which is related to the addition of opt-out telemetry to the Fedora desktop workstation […]
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Red Hat is Shooting Itself in the Foot, Again
3 long years have passed since the CentOS project – directed by Red Hat after being acquired by IBM – announced the shift towards CentOS Stream and ending […]
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How to View and Remove File Metadata on Linux
Whenever you create a new file, whether using your office application, digital camera or video editor, a set of metadata fields are – most of the time – […]
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Meet Kali Linux Purple: The Defensive Security Linux Distribution
On the 13th of March, 2023, the Kali Linux team announced the availability of a new version of their security-focused Linux distribution, named “Kali Linux Purple”, which contains […]
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Enable Zram on Linux For Better System Performance
zRAM is a Linux kernel module that allows the creation of Swap devices on memory. But the catch is that it does not just create them there; it […]
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Best Method to Limit Social Media Time on Your Browser
Social media addiction is a huge problem in many parts of the world. The average internet user now spends around 2:27 hours each day on social media, and this, […]
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Run Multiple GNOME Virtual Boxes Parallelly on Linux
GNOME Boxes is a utility that easily allows you to create “virtual boxes” where you can run any operating system or Linux distribution virtually on your system. The […]
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Bypassing Government Censorship Around NordVPN on Linux
Many governments around the world block access to VPN services so that their citizens don’t bypass their censorship. Most of the time they can’t block access entirely, but […]