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Nate Graham is looking for a new maintainer to take over This Week in Plasma, citing career growth, and family priorities.

This guide explains top 10 dangerous Linux commands in simple terms. Learn why they are risky and how beginners should think ...

Linus Torvalds released the second release candidate (RC2) for Linux Kernel version 6.19. Here's what's new in Linux 6.19-rc2 ...

The file command inspects a file's magic bytes and structure and compares them against a system database. It works consistently on: ...

Learn how to record terminal sessions on Linux using Asciinema and convert them into clean animated GIFs for READMEs and ...

Is your Arch Linux system broken after the NVIDIA 590 update? Learn how to manually install nvidia-580xx-dkms for older GPUs ...

Linux power users spend most of their time in the terminal. They don't repeat long commands, retype paths, and fix mistakes the hard way. Instead, the experienced Linux admins use some effective ...

Cron persistence is a common Linux malware technique. Learn how it works, how to detect it, and how to remove malicious cron ...

Canonical replaced the old data collection tool Ubuntu Report with a modern telemetry system called Ubuntu Insights starting ...

Fedora Linux 41 reached End of Life (EOL) on Dec 15, 2025. Learn why you should upgrade now, how to upgrade to the supported ...