Daily Archive: August 20, 2019

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New Release, Knoppix 8.6

One of my firsts Linux experiences was Knoppix, I forget that what was exact version but I guess, it was Knoppix 3.1 or older version. After 17 years, I am still one of fans. Knoppix is one of most popular and firsts live Linux distributions on CD/DVD. What’s New in Knoppix 8.6? Version 8.6 of KNOPPIX is based on Debian/stable (buster), with some packages from Debian/testing and unstable (sid) for newer graphics drivers or desktop software packages. It uses Linux kernel 5.2.5 and Xorg 7.7 (core 1.20.4) for supporting current computer hardware. Changes in Knoppix 8.6: Updated Kernel and System software (Debian buster+sid), LXDE, the lightweight Knoppix standard desktop including file manager pcmanfm 1.3.1. Gnome 3 (Bootoption knoppix64 desktop=gnome). KDE 5 (knoppix64 desktop=kde). Accessible Adriane Audio Desktop. Wine 4.0 prerelease for directly installing and running Windows applications on Linux, also Windows 10. Qemu-kvm 3.1 as scriptable virtualization solution. Privacy-enhanced tor browser, upgradeable and startable via the Knoppix-menu. Web-Browser Chromium 76.0.3809.87, Firefox 68.0.1 with ad blocker Ublock Origin and Noscript. Libre Office 6.3.0-rc2, Gimp 2.10.8. Maths/Algebra-Software for teachers, solving equations etc.: Maxima 5.42.1 with direct integration of Maxima sessions into Texmacs, creating documentation directly during live lessions. 3D Productivity-Software Blender 2.79.b, Freecad 0.18, Meshlab 1.3.2, Open Scad...

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Cockpit – Powerful Monitoring and Administration Tool

Monitoring and administration on Linux servers are not too easy, you need to some advanced experiences to managing Linux servers properly. Also most Linux advanced administrators using command-line to doing their tasks, using command-line to configuring, monitoring and troubleshooting is not too easy as well. There is some useful tools for managing Linux servers via web based portal. Cockpit is one of most powerful web based management for Linux system. Cockpit Supported OS Cockpit will install on the below Linux systems and it can manage those distributions: Fedora Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS Debian Ubuntu Project Atomic Clear Linux Arch Linux Cockpit is included in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras repository in versions 7.1 and later. Cockpit is included in Ubuntu 17.04 and later, and available as an official backport for 16.04 LTS and later. Backports are enabled by default, but if you customized apt sources you might need to enable them manually. Cockpit packages are included in Oracle Linux 7.x (It’s not mentioned on official website). I have installed Cockpit on CentOS. Cockpit Installation Note: Some Cockpit features may be depended to Linux distribution and version. Fedora Cockpit comes installed by default in Fedora Server. To install Cockpit on other variants of Fedora use...