We list the best Linux distros for beginners, to make it simple and easy to move from Windows or MacOS to Linux. Choice is perhaps the biggest strength as well as the biggest weakness of Linux. There ...

We list the best Linux distros for developers, to make it simple and easy to program your coding projects on stable Linux distros. While Linux has a reputation for being primarily for coders and ...

Thousands of machines running Linux have been infected by a malware strain that’s notable for its stealth, the number of misconfigurations it can exploit, and the breadth of malicious activities it ...

One of the most anticipated new features in PostgreSQL 17 is native support for incremental backups. Previously, you had to use third-party programs for this; now, it's baked into the server. This ...

Get up and running—and avoid the setup pitfalls—with this enterprise-class, open-source database available for all major platforms. For years now, PostgreSQL has been one of the best-kept secrets of ...

The conversation around gaming on Linux has changed significantly during the last several years. It’s a success story engineered by passionate developers working on the Linux kernel and the ...

What steps will reproduce the bug? Let's say, for postgres I need to use any other TCP port apart from 5432. So, here is my example: mkdir -p data/pg0 && mkdir -p data/pg1 && mkdir -p data/pgw0 && ...

In this post, we will see how to install PostgreSQL on your Windows client computer and how you can connect and use it. PostgreSQL, commonly called Postgres, is an open-source relational database ...

A Microsoft engineer noticed something was off on a piece of software he worked on. He soon discovered someone was probably trying to gain access to computers all over the world. Credit...Jon Han ...

An off-the-clock Microsoft worker prevented malicious code from spreading into widely-used versions of Linux via a compression format called XZ Utils. An off-the-clock Microsoft worker prevented ...

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