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Google Rolls Out ClusterFuzzLite For Easy-To-Use, Continuous Fuzzing

Phoronix - Thu, 11/11/2021 - 21:39
As part of Google's effort around fuzzing for improving open-source security, the company today announced ClusterFuzzLite as their new, easy-to-use solution for fuzzing open and closed-source projects with ease as part of the CI/CD process...

On-Disk Format Changes Ahead To Improve "Painful" Parts Of Btrfs Design

Phoronix - Thu, 11/11/2021 - 19:08
Prominent Btrfs file-system developer Josef Bacik is working through a big set of patches that will result in on-disk format changes to Btrfs but address some of "the more painful parts" to the file-system's design...

F2FS With Linux 5.16 Will Let You Intentionally Fragment The Disk

Phoronix - Thu, 11/11/2021 - 18:29
Jaegeuk Kim submitted the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates on Wednesday for the nearly over Linux 5.16 merge window...

Linux 5.16 Introducing Ability For A Driver To Probe Hardware While Powered Off

Phoronix - Thu, 11/11/2021 - 16:00
Last week saw the main set of ACPI and power management changes for Linux 5.16 while merged on Wednesday were a secondary set of updates. Notable on the ACPI side are some changes in preparing for allowing Linux drivers to "probe" hardware while being powered off...

7 Linux commands to use just for fun

opensource.com - Thu, 11/11/2021 - 16:00

The Linux command line can be the home of power users and sysadmins. However, Linux is more than just a lot of hard work. Linux was developed by fun-loving people who created an array of comical commands. Try playing around with these yourself when you want a smile.

Steam locomotive (sl)

For no reason whatsoever, you can cause a steam locomotive to zip across your terminal using the sl command. Install Steam Locomotive with your package manager. For example, on Fedora:

$ sudo dnf install sl


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22 Useful Terminal Emulators for Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 11/11/2021 - 14:43
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A Terminal emulator is a computer program that reproduces a video terminal within some other display structure. In other words, the Terminal emulator has the ability to make a dumb machine appear like a

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Mesa 21.3-rc5 Released With Numerous Intel / AMD / Zink Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 11/11/2021 - 13:00
The Mesa 21.3 development cycle continues dragging on due to blocker bugs affecting the Intel code, so instead it's another week with a new release candidate...

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