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5 Advanced Archive Tools for Linux Command Line – Part 2

Tecmint - Tue, 03/25/2025 - 14:26
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In our previous article, we explored the top 5 command line archive tools, including tar, shar, ar, cpio, and gzip.

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5 Best Command Line Archive Tools for Linux – Part 1

Tecmint - Tue, 03/25/2025 - 13:15
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In our day-to-day life, we often come across archived files on various platforms, whether it’s Windows, Mac, or Linux. Several

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How to Automatically Restart a Service After Failure on SysVinit and Upstart

Tecmint - Tue, 03/25/2025 - 13:15
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On systemd-based Linux distributions, managing and restarting services automatically after a failure is relatively straightforward. However, many older or minimal

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GRUB Bootloader Received 73 Patches To Fix A Variety Of Recent Security Issues

Phoronix - Tue, 03/25/2025 - 08:26
The GRUB bootloader saw a set of 73 patches last month for addressing a variety of security flaws that were discovered...

GIMP 3.0.2 Released To Fix Early Bugs From GIMP 3.0

Phoronix - Tue, 03/25/2025 - 04:56
GIMP 3.0 was 7+ years in development before releasing as stable last week for this much anticipated, GTK3-ported image manipulation program update. Thankfully we're not seeing any lengthy periods of time for new bug-fix releases with today already marking the release of GIMP 3.0.2...

Bcachefs Aims For "Soft Frozen" On-Disk Format With Linux 6.15 Along With New Features

Phoronix - Tue, 03/25/2025 - 03:16
Last month Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet talked of Bcachefs getting to the point of freezing its on-disk format with future on-disk format updates slated to be optional. With today's Bcachefs pull request for Linux 6.15, it's now being treated as "soft frozen" and also landing other new features for this copy-on-write file-system. Among the new features is case insensitive file/folder support contributed by Valve...

Btrfs Adding Fast/Realtime Zstd Compression & Other Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Tue, 03/25/2025 - 02:29
David Sterba of SUSE sent in all of the Btrfs file-system updates today for the now-open Linux 6.15 kernel merge window. There are some new performance optimizations, new and faster Zstd compression level options, and other changes slated to be included for this CoW file-system in Linux 6.15...

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