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How to use Google Bard from the Linux terminal - AddictiveTips

Google News - Fri, 07/28/2023 - 00:23

How to use Google Bard from the Linux terminal AddictiveTips

15 Ways to Secure Your Linux VPS So You Don't Get Hacked - Sociobits

Google News - Fri, 07/28/2023 - 00:16

15 Ways to Secure Your Linux VPS So You Don't Get Hacked Sociobits

How to Backup Your GPG Key in Linux with paperkey - Make Tech Easier

Google News - Thu, 07/27/2023 - 23:25

How to Backup Your GPG Key in Linux with paperkey Make Tech Easier

FreeBSD Working On Support For LinuxBoot, Going From 256 To 1024 CPU Core Limit

Phoronix - Thu, 07/27/2023 - 22:38

FreeBSD developers have published their Q2-2023 status report where they outlined various technical milestones and software accomplishments for this leading BSD operating system...

GNU Assembler Adds Support For Intel's 2024~2025 ISA Extensions

Phoronix - Thu, 07/27/2023 - 21:54

Going along with Intel adding Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake support to the GCC compiler, Intel has also now contributed the new ISA extensions for these future processors to the GNU Assembler "Gas" support as part of their early compiler toolchain enablement...

GameOver(lay): Two Severe Linux Vulnerabilities Impact 40% of Ubuntu Users - The Hacker News

Google News - Thu, 07/27/2023 - 21:25

GameOver(lay): Two Severe Linux Vulnerabilities Impact 40% of Ubuntu Users The Hacker News

LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees

Phoronix - Thu, 07/27/2023 - 18:43

Earlier this month Canonical asserted control over the LXD project. As another step in tightening up control over this container management extension for Linux Containers (LXC) is now apparently limiting LXD maintainership rights to only Canonical employees...

Prism Launcher for Minecraft Java has a nice bug-fix release out - GamingOnLinux

Google News - Thu, 07/27/2023 - 18:41

Prism Launcher for Minecraft Java has a nice bug-fix release out GamingOnLinux

Some Of The Features You Will Find Removed With KDE Plasma 6

Phoronix - Thu, 07/27/2023 - 18:22

Following the recent KDE Akademy developer conference, prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has provided more insight into some of the features being removed with the in-development Plasma 6 desktop...

GNOME Developers Working To Rethink Their Window Management Approach

Phoronix - Thu, 07/27/2023 - 18:11

GNOME 46 or later will likely be seeing work to overhaul the default window management behavior of the desktop...

GCC 13.2 Released With 58+ Bugs Fixed

Phoronix - Thu, 07/27/2023 - 17:56

Released back in April was GCC 13.1 as the first stable release in the GCC 13 series that brought Modula-2 language support, more C++23/C23 features, and other new CPU targets supported from Arm to Intel. Debuting today is GCC 13.2 as the first point release in the series to ship dozens of bug fixes...