Netflix Finds Bug That Creates Linux Kernel Panic

One of the four security vulnerabilities recently discovered by streaming giant Netflix will throw a server into a Linux kernel panic.

Canonical Outs Important Linux Kernel Security Update for All Ubuntu Releases

Canonical has released an important Linux kernel security update for all supported Ubuntu Linux releases to address two critical security vulnerabilities that could crash users' systems.

A Cool Linux Terminal Emulator Display Like In Sci-Fi Films!

Terminal is one of the important applications installed by default on most Linux distributions. This application is usually used to type a specific command on the computer for example to install an application, delete, or update the repository. There are many types of terminal emulator applications that you can choose.

Android Low-Memory Killer--In or Out?

One of the jobs of the Linux kernel—and all operating systemkernels—is to manage the resources available to the system. When those resourcesget used up, what should it do? If the resource is RAM, there's not muchchoice. It's not feasible to take over the behavior of any piece of usersoftware, understand what that software does, and make it more memory-efficient. Instead, the kernel has very little choice but to try toidentify the software that is most responsible for using up the system'sRAM and kill that process.

How To Backup Google Photos To Your Computer With gphotos-sync

gphotos-sync is a command line tool for backing up Google Photos (including separate albums) using the Google Photos Library API, for Linux, macOS and Windows. Use it periodically to grab all newly added photos, keeping a complete Google Photos backup on a server or desktop.

How to install Chef Server, Workstation and Chef Client on Ubuntu 18.04

Chef is a Ruby based configuration management tool used to define infrastructure as code. This enables users to automate the management of many nodes and maintain consistency across those nodes. Recipes declare the desired state for managed nodes and are created on a user’s workstation using the Chef Workstation package. Your recipes are distributed across nodes via a Chef server. A Chef client, installed on each node, is in charge of applying the recipe to its corresponding node. This guide will show you how to install and configure a Chef Server and Chef Workstation. We will also bootstrap a node to manage with Chef.

Create Gifs from Videos through GifCurry on Ubuntu

If you want to extract gif from any video without having a lot of video editing expertise, GifCurry should be your go-to tool. GifCurry is an open source tool that comes with a very simple UI that is rich enough for you to create gifs.

Docker embraces Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

Video: Docker has realized that Microsoft[he]#039[/he]s new Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 has made Windows much more attractive both to Docker and its container developers for both Windows and Linux platforms.

How To Install & Setup Nagios Core On Raspberry PI

Have you ever thought about how some of the World’s biggest companies monitor hundreds of devices? If not, then do it now because, in this tutorial, I am going to introduce you to Nagios. Nagios is a monitoring solution that can monitor a few devices in your house or hundreds of devices, services, network protocols in a multi-billion company.

Slimbook Launches New "Apollo" Linux PC, First Beta for Service Pack 5 of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 Is Out, NVIDIA Binary Drivers for Ubuntu Growing Stale, DragonFly BSD v 5.6 Released and Qt v. 5.12.4

News briefs for June 18, 2019.