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Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal Fossa" LTS Available To Download

The most awaited Linux distribution of the year, Ubuntu 20.04 “Focal Fossa” stable has been made available to download. Ubuntu 20.04 is an LTS release which means it’ll receive maintenance updates for 5 years until April 2025. Ubuntu flavors will be supported for 3 years. We recently covered the improvements and new features it’s going to have in this article. In brief, Ubuntu 20.04 “LTS” has both visual and core changes. The biggest visual changes include the redesigned Yaru theme

Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal Fossa" Beta Released

Ubuntu 20.04 “Focal Fossa” heads toward its final release later this month with the Beta release. Ubuntu 20.04 Beta version is available to download with several changes & new features in the base system. Support lifespan Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop, server, and core will be supported for 5 years until April 2025. New Graphical boot splash screen The very first thing one will notice on the first boot is the new boot screen. Along with the Ubuntu logo, the Ubuntu 20.04 boot scre

Contact Form 7 Datepicker Taken down from Wordpress Plugin Repository

With great power comes great responsibility. Recently WordPress team took down a WordPress plugin with as many as 100,000 installations from the WordPress plugin repository due to a severe vulnerability. The Wordfence team found a severe vulnerability in Contact Form 7 Datepicker, a WordPress plugin that allows showing datepicker in forms created with a viral plugin Contact Form 7. Though the vulnerability does not affect Contact Form 7, anyone with Contact Form 7 Datepicker on-site shou

Linux Mint 20 Codenamed Ulyana & More

The news came on the last day of the month from Linux Mint. The new version of Linux Mint which is Linux Mint 20 will be called Ulyana. What is Ulyana? Linux Mint release post has not released anything other than the name. But a simple google search shows the word “Ulyana” comes from the Russian origin and it means Youthful. Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana” Base Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana” will be based on the upcoming Ubuntu release, 20.04 “Focal Fossa”. Focal Fossa is scheduled to be

Microsoft Releases Windows Defender ATP Preview For Linux

As we all know how much Microsoft has started loving Linux. 🙂 For some, it’s some sort of plan to take over Linux Kernel and build a Microsoft operating system based on Linux. Previously we have seen that Microsoft made many of its popular projects open source including Microsoft web browser Edge, Calculator, vscode, terminal and many more. For the complete list, you can visit opensource.microsoft.com. Now the company that powers most of the Desktop computers has released the publi

Zorin OS to release Zorin Grid for centralized management of Linux desktops

Zorin OS 15 lite came out in December last year with a great number of updates. In each release, the team is focusing on making it way easier to hop on to it from Windows, and I congratulate the team that it has done it so well. Zorin OS is a great choice for Windows users. One could get everything on Windows, from day-to-day use software to playing games through wine. It has got all of that. Now Zorin OS is also focusing on replacing Windows systems with Zorin OS in Schools, busine

Java Is A Language of 50 Keywords 'for'

As discussed in the previous article, we will be talking about 50 important keywords of Java. We have about the abstract keyword last time. This time we will discuss ‘for’ keyword. For The ‘for‘ a keyword is a loop keyword among several other loopings keywords. The other looping keywords are while loop, do-while loop. In programming, whenever we want to repeat the code multiple times, we need to use for loop. The people new to the programming repeat the code whenever they need to p

History of Java

Sun Microsystems first introduced Java in 1995. The project was started in the lab of Sun Microsystems by James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, Patrick Naughton. There were more people in the team, but these three were main. The name of this team was the Green Team. The first version’s name was the Java Alpha Beta version in 1995. Java Development Kit, also called JDK, was first introduced in 1996. When Sun Microsystems released the first version of Java in 1996, it was called JDK 1.0, and the c

Linux Mint 19.3 "Tricia" Beta Available To Download

For the past many releases, I have been covering Linux mint, and in each release, the team has delivered what it had promised. Now the new release is getting closer, and Mint users should know what will be delivered in the coming release Linux Mint 19.3 “Tricia”. Yesterday Linux Mint 19.3 codenamed “Tricia” was released. It is a big milestone for developers to reach since this release reflects what the team has been working for. After reading the release note and using it, it looks like

WP Maintenance Plugin Vulnerable To CSRF & XSS

If you have installed the WP Maintenance plugin on your WordPress site or blog, this article is for you. Recently, the Wordfence team discovered a CSRF vulnerability in the WP Maintenance plugin used to put the website on maintenance mode during maintenance. The plugin allows webmasters to customize the maintenance page and show it to all website visitors during maintenance. Wordfence team discovered CSRF vulnerability in the plugin that can also allow an attacker to inject malici

KDE Plasma 5.17 Released

KDE plasma is one of the most featured-rich and beautiful Linux desktop environments. It is also the most customizable desktop environment that I have ever used. Recently, it received a new update Plasma 5.17 with a number of new features and improvements. Plasma is the desktop environment for people who want modern looking, customizable, and want new features every now and then. Plasma 5.17 Plasma 5.17 came out a few days back and I was quick to hop on and test out the new features in

Fedora 31 Released

Fedora 31 is officially here. Fedora is known to provide the cutting-edge open-source software in its every release. The foundation continues to follow the same. Let’s see what’s new and improved in this new release since its last predecessor. What’s New In Fedora 31 As I stated above that the Fedora focuses on providing cutting-edge technology in each new release. In Fedora 31 also, there is not much that users will notice instantly after installing/upgrading. But that should not stop anyo