Enabling Ubuntu Pro on Ubuntu is getting easier, with the latest update to the distro’s desktop Security Center app adding a dedicated panel. Currently, you can enrol and manage Ubuntu Pro for long-term support (LTS) versions of Ubuntu via the Software & Updates tool or the command-line. As Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will not include the Software & Updates utility by default (it’s still in the archives, for those who want it), a new graphical way to configure Ubuntu Pro enablement is needed. And the desktop Security Center, introduced in Ubuntu 24.10, is the logical place to put it as Ubuntu […]
With just a few weeks to go until the official Fedora 44 release, there is already feature planning and activity beginning for Fedora 45 that will be released toward the end of 2026. Among the early feature approvals is a new web front-end feature to the DRM Panic "Blue/Black Screen of Death" functionality with a specialized QR code for kernel errors...
The Tor Blog has an interesting article about the non-technical side of setting up a Tor Relay. It documents how a computer science student at National Taiwan Normal University worked with the university system to set up a relay and provides a template for future attempts: In Taiwan, anonymous networks do not lack technical documentation or ideological support. The real scarcity is experience from actually working through the real institutional system once. Especially in an environment where academic networks are highly centralized and outbound connectivity is tightly controlled, distributed anonymous infrastructure like Tor Relays is inherently difficult to sustain. This implementation at National Taiwan Normal University was not meant to provide a final answer for anonymous networks. It was a concrete attempt made within real-world institutions. It may not immediately improve the performance or security of anonymous networks, and it was not intended to become a directly reproducible
A deterministic password manager that generates, rather than stores, your logins — and makes versioning old passwords surprisingly handy. The post Master Key for Linux’s Different Take on Password Management appeared first on FOSS Force.
Objective 703.2 of the DevOps Tools Engineer 2.0 exam covers Basic Kubernetes Operations. It represents a significant portion of the exam and requires a solid understanding of how to deploy and manage applications in Kubernetes. Candidates should be able to: ... Read more The post DevOps Tools Introduction #10: Basic Kubernetes Operations appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Version 2.0 of the LibreQoS traffic-management and network operations platform has been released. This release makes LibreQoS easier to operate, easier to understand, and much more useful for day-to-day network work. Now users can see more of what is happening across the network, troubleshoot subscriber issues with better tools, and work from a much stronger local WebUI. This release includes many capabilities that reflect ideas and direction long championed by our late colleague, Dave Täht. Dave's work helped shape the understanding of bufferbloat and the importance of latency under load across the networking community. His influence continues to guide both LibreQoS and the broader effort to improve Internet quality. The project has also announced the release of the LibreQoS Bufferbloat Test v2, also dedicated to Täht. It runs in a user's browser to look at "latency under load, jitter, loss, and what those things mean for the kinds of traffic people actually care about: browsing, stre
The kernel's direct map provides code running in kernel mode with direct access to all physical memory installed in the system — on 64-bit systems, at least. It obviously makes life easier for kernel developers, but the direct map also brings some problems of its own, most of which are security-related. Interest in removing at least some pages from the direct map has been simmering for years; a couple of patch sets under discussion show some use cases for memory that has been removed from the direct map, and how such memory might be efficiently managed.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.19.10, 6.18.20, 6.12.78, 6.6.130, and 6.1.167 stable kernels. Each contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.
Building off the release of ROCm 7.2 from January, ROCm 7.2.1 is now available with Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS support as well as various bug fixes to this open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct GPU compute stack...
FreeCAD 1.1 open-source 3D parametric modeler is now available for download with improved Wayland support, three-point lighting, transparent Part Design previews, and more.
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