today's howtos

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 22, 2025

• How to Install Tor Browser on Linux

  Tor (The Onion Router) is a free, open-source browser designed to protect your privacy online by routing your internet traffic through a global network of servers. This makes it extremely difficult for anyone to track your browsing habits or identify your location.

  Whether you're working in a sensitive environment, a privacy-conscious user, or someone who just wants to browse without being tracked, Tor offers a powerful layer of anonymity.

  Installing Tor on Linux might seem technical, but it's straightforward when broken down into clear steps. This guide will walk you through downloading, verifying, and installing Tor safely, ensuring you get a genuine, untampered copy.

• SANS ☛ Don't Forget The "-n" Command Line Switch

  A lot of people like the command line, the CLI, the shell (name it as you want) because it provides a lot of powerful tools to perform investigations. The best example is probably parsing logs! Even if we have SIEM to ingest and process them, many people still fall back to the good old suite of grep, cut, awk, sort, uniq, and many more.

• Martijn Braam ☛ Don't pick weird subnets for embedded networks, use VRFs

  The most official solution for this is IPv6 of course. If your private network has IPv6 internally you can just address every device by it's link local address. Due to having a router splitting the network segment between your rack and the public network you know that all the link local addresses are always your own devices.

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  • ID Root ☛ How To Install R and RStudio on Fedora 42

    Installing R and RStudio on Fedora 42 opens up powerful possibilities for statistical computing, data analysis, and scientific research. This comprehensive guide walks you through multiple installation methods, ensuring you can set up both R programming language and RStudio IDE successfully on your Fedora system.

  • ID Root ☛ How To Install Atom Text Editor on Debian 13

    [Ed: Atom is dead, abandoned, and under Microsoft control. Why would anyone still post this in 2025?]

    Atom Text Editor stands as one of the most versatile and customizable code editors available for GNU/Linux developers today. This comprehensive guide will walk you through multiple methods to install Atom on Debian 13, ensuring you can choose the approach that best fits your system requirements and preferences.

  • ID Root ☛ How To Install OnlyOffice on Debian 13

    Installing OnlyOffice on Debian 13 provides organizations and individual users with a powerful, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Office-compatible office suite that supports real-time collaboration and comprehensive document editing capabilities. OnlyOffice has emerged as a leading alternative to proprietary office software, offering both desktop and server-based solutions that integrate seamlessly with GNU/Linux environments.

  • ID Root ☛ How To Install Chromium on Debian 13

    Installing Chromium on Debian 13 “Trixie” provides users with a powerful, open-source web browser that prioritizes privacy and performance. Chromium serves as the foundation for Surveillance Giant Google Chrome but strips away proprietary components and data collection mechanisms that concern privacy-focused users.

  • ID Root ☛ How To Install Postman on Rocky GNU/Linux 10

    Postman stands as one of the most popular API development platforms in the modern software development landscape. With over 25 million developers worldwide relying on this powerful tool, Postman has become an essential component for API testing, development, and documentation.

  • ID Root ☛ How To Install Draw.io Desktop App on Debian 13

    Draw.io has become an essential tool for professionals who need to create high-quality diagrams, flowcharts, and visual representations of complex processes. This comprehensive guide will walk you through multiple methods to install the Draw.io desktop application on Debian 13, ensuring you have access to this powerful diagramming software directly on your GNU/Linux system.

• Linuxiac ☛ How to SSH Into a VirtualBox Guest VM

  Want to SSH into a VirtualBox GNU/Linux guest OS? Here’s how to set it up using bridged networking or NAT with port forwarding.