MADDOG'S DOGHOUSE

Planning and community effort can help welcome Linux beginners online without precluding more advanced discussions.

Cash as Cash Can

Mike Schilli uses the YNAB tool to keep an eye on his finances. Until recently, YNAB didn't have a terminal Ul programmed in Go, but Mike delivers it here.

Innovator

Re-inventing the Ubuntu experience

Play video games natively on Linux Gaming Your Way

Bazzite, an immutable Linux distro adapted for gaming, lets you play your favorite video games on your PC, handheld, or home theater PC.

Installing mods on Steam Deck Steam Gems

The Steam Deck gaming console offers a galaxy of creative modifications for the games you love to play.

Zack's Kernel News

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

System Monitoring

Mission Center, a graphical system monitor, groups all important system statuses in a compact, intuitive interface.

Exploring the Unbound DNS resolver Unbound

The Unbound DNS resolver offers comprehensive security and many other useful features.

MakerSpace

If you need to store long-term historical data, you can cobble together some Arduino modules, sensors, and displays and get them all to talk to an SQL server.

Mix It Up

Solve Bash blind spots by embedding other scripting languages into your Bash scripts to get the features you need. Pete shows you solutions for floating-point math, charting, GUIs, and hardware integration.

A statistical extension for LibreOffice Writer Text File Statistics

Linguist offers writers interesting, valuable data to help them make the best of their words.

A modern find command User-Friendly Search

An update for the find command, fd offers significant improvements with many user-friendly options.

Horse Trick

Malicious Trojan horse programs have been part of the IT landscape for decades. It is easier than you think to create an application with a secret purpose. We'll show you how.

MADDOG'S DOGHOUSE

The stakeholder approach of open source broadens the pool of who can access, influence, and benefit from information technologies.

MakerSpace

Rust, a potential successor to C/C++, claims to solve some memory safety issues while maintaining high performance. We look at Rust on embedded systems, where memory safety, concurrency, and security are equally important

In Harmony

Using the Go Interface mechanism, Mike demonstrates its practical application with a refresh program for local copies of Git repositories.

Monkey Business

Even small changes in a web page can improve the browsing experience. Your preferred web browser provides all the tools you need to inject JavaScript to adapt the page. You just need a browser with its debugging tools, some knowledge of scripting, and the browser extension Tampermonkey.

Smarter Navigation

Zoxide, a modern version of cd, lets you navigate long directory paths with less typing.

Through the Back Door

Cybercriminals are increasingly discovering Linux and adapting malware previously designed for Windows systems. We take you inside the Linux version of a famous Windows ransomware tool.

Page Pulse

Do you want to be alerted when a product is back in stock on your favorite online store? Do you want to know when a website without an RSS feed gets an update? With changedetection.io, you can stay up-to-date on website changes.

Arco Linux

ArcoLinux, an Arch derivative, offers easier installs while educating users about Arch Linux along the way.

Ghost Coder

Artificial intelligence is increasingly supporting programmers in their daily work. How effective are these tools? What are the dangers? And how can you benefit from Al-assisted development today?

Zack's Kernel News

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

Tracking your finances with plain text accounting Plain Numbers

If you're tired of tinkering with spreadsheets, using hledger and plain text accounting offers a simpler method for managing your finances without vendor lock-in

Dependency resolution with apt-get and apt Evolutionary Tale

Over the past 30 years, the apt family has played an important role in dependency resolution for Debian distros.

Cryptomining with Litecoin Traveling Lite

Although not as popular as headliners like Bitcoin and Ethereum, Litecoin is one of the oldest crytocurrencies, and it offers some useful features, such as dual-mining with Dogecoin.

Software Update SnoopGod

SnoopGod delivers an Ubuntu-based pentesting distribution with an emphasis on security education.

Kernel Trouble

This deep look at how intruders attack an out-of-date kernel should be enough to convince you of the need to stay vigilant.

Using Wake-on-LAN for a NAS backup Power Saver

Put your backup server to sleep when you don't need it and then wake it on demand using the Wake-on-LAN feature built into network adapters.

Time Travel

Mike Schilli uses a Go program to check whether a strategy for trading stocks is making gains or losses on the basis of historical price data.