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In Other News: Hacking Encrypted Linux Computers, Android Fuzzing, Skype Leaking IPs  SecurityWeek

OpenColorIO (OCIO) as the open-source color management solution for motion picture production and maintained by the Academy Software Foundation is out with a new feature release that will be part of their 2024 VFX Reference Platform. Notable with this release are new SIMD optimizations with AVX/AVX2 and Arm NEON...

While approaching the end of summer, there's no breaks at Phoronix and over the course of August were 240 original news articles and another 15 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. Here is a look back at what was most exciting for the month...

Inception & Downfall, Linux 6.6 Development Kicking Off & Other ...  Phoronix

Released nearly one year ago was GNU Wget2 2.0 as a big improvement over Wget to support more protocols like HTTP/2, enabling multi-threading support and parallel connections, and a range of other feature additions. Published on Thursday was Wget2 2.1 as the newest step forward for this much-improved Wget open-source downloading solution...

In addition to NFSD bringing a thrilling feature for Linux 6.6 in the form of NFSv4 write delegation support, the NFS client code for the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel also has a notable feature change...

Linux 6.6 NFS Enables NFSv4.2 READ_PLUS Option By Default  Phoronix

Following the releases this week of Intel's SVT-AV1 1.7 encoder and the libavif 1.0 AV1 Image File Format release, Google engineers are out with libaom 3.7 as the newest feature release to that AV1 encode library...

The post 13 Free and Open-Source Video Editing Software for Linux in 2023 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

It’s a well-known fact that there is a broader variety of software products for Windows and Macs than for Linux. Even as Linux continues to

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The post My Favorite Command Line Editors for Linux – What’s Your Editor? first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Knowing how to edit files quickly and effectively via the command line is vital for every Linux system administrator. File edits are performed on a

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Steam Deck OS 3.4.9 released with GPU fix for Starfield  GamingOnLinux

The Arch Decision: Evaluating If a Leap From Manjaro to ...  Linux Journal

BlueAlly is a Red Hat Advanced Build (AB) partner focusing on network and cloud automation using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. In May of 2023, the BlueAlly Consulting team was invited to the Cisco Federal Innovation Challenge (CFIC) hosted at the GSA Workplace Innovation Lab 1 in Washington, DC. The goal of the CFIC is to bring together ideas to accelerate modernization across the federal and defense landscape. The focus is NetDevOps, IT modernization, telemetry and visualization. The team's solution is an extensible architectural framework based on streaming services and Event-Dr

How to Run Websites as Apps in Linux  OPP.Today

The Intel Shadow Stack support that is part of their Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) has finally been merged for the Linux 6.6 kernel after it was previously rejected by Linus Torvalds...

Intel Shadow Stack Finally Merged For Linux 6.6  Phoronix

How to Mine Bitcoin on Linux  BTC Peers

ReiserFS is now “obsolete” in the Linux kernel and should be gone by 2025  Ars Technica

The Linux mitigation for the Intel Gather Data Sampling (GDS) "Downfall" vulnerability was updated to reflect all Skylake and Kabylake CPUs being vulnerable to this nasty issue. Due to those Skylake client processors reaching the end of their official support life at Intel, the original Linux mitigation for GDS/Downfall didn't properly protect those older Core processor models...

10 Best Dark Themes for Ubuntu Linux  Asiana Times