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Red Hat Launches RHEL Extended Life Cycle Premium With 14-Year Support

Red Hat Launches RHEL Extended Life Cycle Premium With 14-Year Support

Red Hat has launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle Premium, a standalone subscription that extends support for a major RHEL release up to 14 years. This solution targets organizations running long-term environments where upgrades are constrained by certification…

Arch Linux Makes nft the Default Backend for iptables

Arch Linux Makes nft the Default Backend for iptables

Arch Linux has announced that iptables now uses the nft backend by default, marking a continued shift in the Linux networking stack from the legacy xtables framework to the modern nftables system. As part of this transition, the former iptables-nft…

How to Automatically Block Suspicious IPs using iptables and Fail2Ban

How to Automatically Block Suspicious IPs using iptables and Fail2Ban

Your Linux server is under attack right now you just might not know it yet. Every internet-facing machine faces a constant stream of brute-force login attempts, port scans, and automated bots probing for vulnerabilities. Passwords get guessed, services get hammered,…

How to Setup Two-Factor Authentication For SSH In Linux

Password-only SSH authentication is one of the most common — and most dangerous — security gaps in Linux server management. Attackers armed with credential lists and automated scripts can hammer your SSH port indefinitely. If your password is the only…

JetStream 3 Debuts as a Major Browser Benchmark Update

JetStream 3 Debuts as a Major Browser Benchmark Update

JetStream 3 has been introduced as a major upgrade to one of the most widely recognized browser benchmarking tools, representing its first substantial update since 2019. For those unfamiliar, JetStream is a benchmark suite used to evaluate browser performance in…

How to Set Up Automated Incremental Backups with rsync and Cron on Linux

Automating Linux backups with rsync

Data loss is one of the most disruptive events a system administrator or Linux user can experience. Hard drives fail. Ransomware encrypts. Accidental rm -rf happens. Power failures corrupt filesystems at the worst possible moment. The only genuine protection against…

How to Automate Daily Linux Health Checks with a Bash Script + Cron

How to Automate Daily Linux Health Checks with a Bash Script + Cron

Introduction Every Linux server runs silently in the background, accumulating usage, filling disks, crashing services, and building up memory pressure — often for hours or days before anyone notices. By the time users report a problem, the damage is already…

Pangolin 1.17 Tunneled Reverse Proxy Adds Multiple Roles per User

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Pangolin an open-source, self-hosted identity-based remote access platform that blends a tunneled reverse proxy with zero-trust VPN-style access has released version 1.17. The standout enhancement in this release is support for multiple roles per user. Previously, each user was limited…

Pidgin 3.0 Messaging Client Moves from Experimental Build to Alpha

Pidgin 3.0 Messaging Client Moves from Experimental Build to Alpha

Pidgin—the classic messaging client many users still remember—is very much alive. More than a year after its first experimental 3.0 release, the project has now reached the alpha stage. This marks a significant milestone, as developers confirm that the protocol…

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Raises Desktop Minimum RAM Requirement

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Raises Desktop Minimum RAM Requirement

According to Canonical’s documentation, the upcoming Ubuntu Desktop 26.04 LTS—set to launch on April 23—will come with higher memory requirements compared to the current LTS version. Right now, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS lists 4 GB of RAM as the minimum for…