InfluxData is releasing InfluxDB 3.8 for both Core and Enterprise, alongside the 1.6 release of the InfluxDB 3 Explorer UI-with updates focused on operational maturity and making InfluxDB easier to ...

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

Logs, databases, and caches grow under /var. Learn why Linux admins monitor the /var directory to prevent disk issues and service failures.

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 ...

With over 30 years of development, Debian must be doing something right. Along with Slackware, it's one of the oldest Linux ...

Project retires 32-bit ports, embraces pkgbase, and modernizes build process The latest release of FreeBSD contains a lot of crucial under-the-hood changes – and drops 32-bit support on both x86 and ...

Along with new functionality, systemd is broadening its distro support even further, which will surely delight members of the wider Linux community. Systemd v259-rc1 is the first preview release of ...

systemctl-alpine bridges the gap between systemd and OpenRC service management by providing a familiar systemd-like interface for Alpine Linux. It allows you to: systemctl is a CLI tool that helps you ...

Build 2025 was all about AI, but Microsoft also made WSL open-source The company knows just how valuable its community of contributors has been Microsoft wants users to "engage in issue resolution and ...

Since its first version, originally called "Babykit" by Kay Sievers and Lennart Poettering after the Linux Plumbers Conference 2009, Systemd has become one of the more important projects around Linux.