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Good news! All modules of the new course 'Linux Networking at Scale' have been published. You can start learning all the advanced topics and complete the labs in the course.

Linux Networking at Scale

Master advanced networking on Linux — from policy routing to encrypted overlays.

Linux Handbook •Umair Khurshid

This course is only available for Pro members. This would be a good time to consider upgrading your membership, if you are not already a Pro member.

📖 Tips and Tutorials

One way of enhancing your Linux skills is to build small projects. The more hands-on stuff you do, the more you learn. In that regard, here's a setup for automatically converting files to PDF. The setup involves unconv and cron. Good for practicing your skills and gain experience similar to real-world.

Creating an Automated PDF Conversion System on Linux with unoconv [In-depth Guide]

Build a reliable automated PDF converter using unoconv with Bash script and cron job. Good small project for practicing…

Linux Handbook •Roland Taylor

If you find it helpful, we can work on more such lab exercises that you can use for practicing your Linux knowledge.

You might have noticed that we are also covering simple pen-testing hands-on practice tutorials. The latest one is about hunting for XSS vulnerability.

Automating XSS Hunting with Dalfox [Pen Testing Hands-on]

Learn about using Dalfox for XSS injection on Kali Linux with a demo scan against a safe target. Copy, paste, profit. F…

Linux Handbook •Hangga Aji Sayekti

Learn about the concept of tmp directory.

The /tmp directory in Linux: What You Should Know

Learn some crucial things about the /tmp directory. You’ll also learn how it is different from the /var/tmp directory.…

Linux Handbook •Sagar Sharma

💡Quick terminal tip

With the find command, you can restrict the recursive search to specified depths.

find . -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type f -print

The above command searches for regular files only in the second level of subdirectories (i.e., skipping the starting directory and deeper recursion).

🛠️ Tool discovery

Find your next favorite software in this section.

Nightingale: Self-hosted monitoring and alerting solution

Nightingale is an open-source monitoring solution primarily focused on its robust alerting engine. While it shares multi-source data connectivity with Grafana, Nightingale differentiates itself by prioritizing the processing, distribution, and overall management of alarms over data visualization.

Features

• Alerting Self-Healing enables automated problem resolution by triggering scripts, etc.
• Advanced Event Pipeline
• Unified Multi-Source Alerting
• Hierarchical Organization
• Focus on Alert Engine

GitHub - ccfos/nightingale: Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization.

Nightingale is to monitoring and alerting what Grafana is to visualization. - ccfos/nightingale…

GitHub •ccfos

SeaweedFS: Simple and highly scalable distributed file system

SeaweedFS is a fast, highly scalable distributed storage system designed to efficiently handle vast numbers of small files (blobs), objects, files, and data lake storage. It achieves speed and scale by minimizing the burden on the central master server; the master only tracks volumes, while the volume servers manage file metadata locally.

• O(1) Disk Seek for Blobs
• Flexible Access Protocols (Filer)
• Cloud Tiering and Hybrid Storage
• High Scalability and Availability
• Customizable Metadata Store

GitHub - seaweedfs/seaweedfs: SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, xDC replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding. Enterprise version is at seaweedfs.com.

SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob st…

GitHub •seaweedfs

📰 Linux news that matters

• SLES 16 modernizes installer, security, and stack, and integrates Agentic AI.
• Malicious npm packages drop infostealer post install.
• New release Qt Creator 18 introduces experimental support for development containers and more.
• CUE labs launches configuration control plane and central registry.
• GitHub adds Agent HQ to manage AI agents in DevOps.
• Here is how community preserved open source momentum.

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