Nine months after the launch of Lollipop, nearly 82% of active Android devices are running an older version of the software. According to Google’s recently released data on Android version adoption, 15.5 of Android devices are running Lollipop 5.0 while 2.6% of devices have the latest Lollipop 5.5. A huge Read More
QuiteRSS is an excellent open source cross-platform RSS news feed reader that I have been using for about a year now with mucho satisfaction. I’ve installed it on Linux Mint and CentOS. The reader works fine on Linux and I can’t recollect it ever crashing on me. The free reader Read More
CentOS (the unsupported, free version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux) is considered one of the most robust Linux distributions around. Countless medium and large businesses and, increasingly lately, Linux enthusiasts run CentOS. So it’s worthwhile to understand how to determine the version of CentOS running on your server or desktop Read More
The good folks at BackBox have put out an upgrade to their penetration testing distro Backbox Linux. Release 4.3 of Backbox Linux features Linux Kernel 3.16 and Ruby 2.1. For those unfamiliar with BackBox, think of it as a younger sibling to Kali Linux, the numero uno penetration testing distro. Read More
After installing Ubuntu or any other guest distro based on Ubuntu like Backbox or LinuxMint as a guest OS through Oracle’s VirtualBox virtualization software, you’re often bound to experience problems with the screen resolution (the guest OS appears smaller and in the middle of the screen). Fortunately, the solution to Read More
Mark your calendar, sound the bugles and herald the dawn of a new era, my good friends. The angels at Kali have announced D-Day for the newest version of the world’s ultimate Linux penetration testing distribution. Folks, the spanking new Kali Linux 2.0 will debut on August 11, 2015. Oh, Read More