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One of the things that open source prides itself on is choice. You don't have to settle for anything you don't love. You can change your file manager, your text editor, and you even have over 24 desktops to choose from. As with many Linux users, I was pretty flexible about the desktop I used at first. I didn't know what I liked at first, because I hadn't tried everything available to me.

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Whether you're interested in them as part of your job, for future job opportunities, or just out of interest in new technology, containers can seem pretty overwhelming to even an experienced systems administrator. So how do you actually get started with containers? And what's the path from containers to Kubernetes? Also, why is there a path from one to the other at all? As you might expect, the best place to start is the beginning.

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Linux Developers Fix Bugs Faster Than Apple & Google: Report  Fossbytes

Embedded Linux Market 2022 Global Revenue Analysis, Forecast Statistics – ENEA, IBM, Microchip, Siemens, Green Hills Software, Intel, etc – ZNews Africa  ZNews Africa

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There are several ways of NGINX web server security hardening one of which is access control based on IP address. This guide explains how to secure web applications by controlling access based on a

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OpenBLAS as the popular open-source implementation of the BLAS and LAPACK APIs is out with a new feature release...

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.17-rc5 as another weekly test version of Linux 5.17 that will debut as stable in March...

How to Use Google Messages on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Thanks to Red Hat engineer Jelle van der Waa, the hid-razer driver is set to be merged into Linux 5.18 next month for dealing with Razer hardware not complying with the HID standard...

How To Monitor Your CPU and RAM in Linux  Tom's Hardware

Intel's Software Defined Silicon (SDSi) driver is ready to be merged for the Linux 5.18 kernel now that it's been queued into the x86 platform driver's "for-next" branch...

Last month Intel posted a new set of Linux patches for shadow stack support as part of the Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) found within their latest processors. Also part of Intel's CET is Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) while Intel said they were going to first focus on shadow stack (SS) and worry about IBT later. Less than one month later, new Indirect Branch Tracking patches for the Linux kernel have been taking shape...

Mesa's Virgl code as part of the Virgil 3D GPU project allows for OpenGL/3D acceleration within QEMU virtual machines with the driver calls then being passed onto the host GPU. Mesa's Virgl code to this stage has relied upon the Gallium3D TGSI intermediate representation while they are working on moving it to the modern and superior NIR...

Following the nasty local privilege escalation vulnerability that was disclosed last month for Polkit's pkexec, Fedora developers are hoping to make pkexec optional later this year with Fedora 37...

Week in review: Kali Linux 2022.1 released, attackers leveraging Microsoft Teams to spread malware  Help Net Security

I used to marvel at people who required more than one clock, each set to an exotic timezone, on the wall. I saw it mostly in movies, so when I met someone in real life with lots of clocks, it made them seem particularly important, like the leader of a global spy network or a big banking syndicate. And yet lately, I find myself needing to be aware of at least three different timezones on a regular basis. It's not that I've become more important, it's just that the world has gotten smaller, thanks to technology and remote work.

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Tiny Core Linux: The Smallest Linux Distro Ever Made  MUO - MakeUseOf

KDE vs. XFCE: Comparing the Two Linux Desktop Environments  MUO - MakeUseOf

Libinput 1.20 is out today as the first update since last September to this widely-used Linux input handling library that is relied on both within X.Org and Wayland powered desktops...

Install AngularJS in Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04 Linux - Linux Shout  Linux Shout