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15 Places To Buy A Laptop With Linux Preloaded

I want a Linux system without having to pay a Microsoft tax. The hardest part of using Linux is to find out the correct hardware. Hardware compatibility and drivers can be a big issue. But where one can find Linux desktops or Laptop for sale? Here are fifteen places to buy a preinstalled Linux Desktop […]

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How To Use Vagrant To Create Small Virtual Test Lab on a Linux / OS X / MS-Windows

Vagrant is a multi-platform command line tool for creating lightweight, reproducible and portable virtual environments. Vagrant acts as a glue layer between different virtualization solutions (Software, hardware PaaS and IaaS) and different configuration management utilities (Puppet, Chef, etc’). Vagrant was started back at 2010 by Mitchell Hashimoto as a side project and later became one […]

Linux security alert: Bug in sudo’s get_process_ttyname() [ CVE-2017-1000367 ]

There is a serious vulnerability in sudo command that grants root access to anyone with a shell account. It works on SELinux enabled systems such as CentOS/RHEL and others too. A local user with privileges to execute commands via sudo could use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root. Patch your system as soon […]

File permissions: Linux or Unix users will understand this

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Accidentally overwrote a binary file on Linux? Here is how to restore it

A shell script went wild due to some bug, and the script overwrote a binary file /bin/ping. Here is how tor restores it. /bin/ping erased (Credit: https://dribbble.com/TonyBabel) There are two ways to solve this problem. Easy way: copy it from another server Just scp file from another box running the same version of your Linux […]

You can now live patch Ubuntu Linux Kernel without rebooting the box

Kernel live patching enables runtime correction of critical security issues in running kernel without rebooting. Try new service from Canonical the company behind Ubuntu Linux operating system. It uses upstream Linux kernel 4.x kpatch technology. This guide explains how to enable or patch your Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS server without rebooting the box. Read more… […]