Here’s some good news for Linux Mint fans. The next update of this excellent Linux desktop distribution should arrive toward the end of November or latest by December 2015. Linux Mint 17.3 aka Rosa will be the third and last 17.x point release. Linux Mint 17, 17.1 and 17.2 users Read More
Fall on your knees and kiss the earth in gratitude. Folks, Kali Linux 2.0 has just been released. In case you’ve just arrived from Mars or Uranus, Kali is the mother of Linux penetrating distributions. So what’s new in Kali 2.0? A lot of goodies in there, a lot! So Read More
If you’ve been using a CentOS 7 or RedHat 7 system for some time and updating it regularly, you’re bound to accumulate multiple kernels. In this post, we’ll learn how to check the number of installed kernels on a CentOS, RedHat or Fedora box and remove the older ones. Check Read More
Popular open source office application suite LibreOffice has been updated to version 5.0 giving it compatibility with Microsoft’s new Windows 10 operating system. The tenth major release of the free cross-platform office suite, LibreOffice 5.0 includes a word processor (Writer), spreadsheet (Calc), drawing and flowcharting tool (Draw), database (Base), presentation Read More
In this age of relentless online attacks by criminals, forcing password changes upon users is a must adopt security policy. As any seasoned Linux system administrator will tell you, only idiots don’t implement password aging. The concept of setting timelines for password validity is known as password aging. The key Read More
Security has been a nightmare for hundreds of millions of Android device owners given the slow/nil issue of patches for even serious vulnerabilities. But some relief is finally at hand for owners of Google and Samsung mobile devices. Security – Samsung, Google Act Anxious to counter widely held perceptions that Read More