Clicking through the AWS console works for a one-off task, but the moment you manage instances, buckets, or DNS records regularly, you want those actions in your shell history and your scripts. The AWS CLI puts every AWS API behind a single aws command, so listing instances, syncing a bucket, or rotating a key becomes…
DistroWatch.com: StratOS Linux Last Update: 2026-07-29 21:59 UTC stratos-2026.07.29-swayfx (more screenshots in our gallery) StratOS Linux is an Arch-based Linux distribution which uses scripts from Bedrock Linux to include various packages and repositories from other Linux distributions. It provides several desktop variants featuring the GNOME desktop as well as the Hyprland and the Niri Wayland…
I was skeptical about AI tools in a DevOps workflow for a long time. Every demo I saw showed someone asking AI Agent to write a Hello World Dockerfile. That’s not a DevOps use case, that’s a simple chat. What changed my mind was using Claude for things that actually slow me down at work….
This tutorial shows you how to install TiDB using TiUP, start a local cluster, connect to it with the MySQL client, and run your first queries on Ubuntu and RHEL-based Linux systems. If you’ve ever struggled to scale MySQL beyond a single write node, TiDB offers a solution without requiring you to learn a new…
Project Zomboid just had a big free upgrade with Build 42 now out in the stable branch, bringing with it an overhaul to various parts of the game. They said that Build 42 represents one of the most substantial evolutions in Project Zomboid’s long colourful history. The update transforms Knox Country into a more detailed,…
GOG built its whole brand around selling DRM-free games and providing offline installers that work without requiring an internet connection or any kind of verification from their side. They even encourage people to download installers and copy them over to physical media like discs, and treat the copy as theirs. This is something the big…
It was discovered that Samba’s pam_winbind incorrectly handled homedirectory ownership when mkhomedir was enabled. A local attacker couldpossibly use this issue to cause a denial of service by triggering a changein ownership of the root directory. (CVE-2026-15779) Arjun Basnet, Douglas Bagnall, and Andrew Tridgell discovered that Sambaincorrectly handled TSIG packets with name compression. A remote…
In over 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and testing at Phoronix, I have never been more excited for a fan controller… ARCTIC today launched their new Fan Controller and in making the product very unique for Linux users, it already has mainline Linux kernel support via a open-source driver contributed directly by ARCTIC. Back…
The 0.11 version of Wayfire has been released as a major update to the extensible 3D Wayland compositor, including significant improvements in fractional display scaling, color management, HDR rendering, Vulkan-powered effects, and the handling of external plugins. A prominent feature of the new release is a revamped geometry system which aims to achieve better results…
DistroWatch.com: LinuxHub Prime Last Update: 2026-06-02 19:23 UTC linuxhub-2026.05.06 (more screenshots in our gallery) LinuxHub Prime is an Arch-based Linux distribution with a customised Openbox window manager as the default desktop environment. Its main feature is a unique installer that provides one-click installation options for several popular window managers and desktop environments, including Awesome, bspwm,…
