ParrotOS is a specialized Linux distribution focusing on the needs of security professionals. It is usually run inside a virtual machine on a host machine. When the host machine has a high resolution display, running ParrotOS looks very blurry by default. This article describes which configuration changes are needed to make ParrotOS look great on such high resolution host machines. Enable Full Resolution for the VM First you need to configure your virtualization software to make the virtual machine use ...

On December 8, 2020, Red Hat CTO Chris Wright announced that the popular Linux distribution CentOS will only receive support (and security fixes) until 2021 (instead of the originally announced 2029). Put differently: thousands of CentOS users who counted on the availability of security updates for the foreseeable future are now left in the cold and need to migrate their systems in the next 12 months. While this may sound like a long time, it is actually a gigantic pressure ...

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