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Intel today is announcing Project Circuit Breaker as a broadening of its bug county program for "elite hackers" to help discover areas for improvement within Intel's hardware/software security...

Mounting individual drive in a RAID set-up? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

How To Install RethinkDB server on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal fossa  Linux Shout

NVIDIA Linux Gaming Performance For Wayland vs. X.Org On Ubuntu 22.04  Phoronix

With NVIDIA's newly-introduced 510 Linux driver series paired with the latest XWayland and a modern Wayland compositor like the newest GNOME/Mutter packages, the NVIDIA (X)Wayland experience is in great shape and delivering comparable performance to a traditional X.Org session. The NVIDIA Wayland support with GBM usage has stabilized and appears to be in good shape for the upcoming Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release. Here are some benchmarks of the NVIDIA 510 driver on the current state of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 7.3 as the newest half-year update to this leading open-source, cross-platform office suite...

New Malware Used by SolarWinds Attackers Went Undetected for Years  The Hacker News

The Linux kernel patches that alow bringing up x86_64 CPU cores in parallel when booting the system have been revised for faster boot times on today's systems from high core count desktops to massive servers...

Samba bug may allow code execution as root on Linux machines, NAS devices (CVE-2021-44142)  Help Net Security

ACPI Platform Profile support on Linux has been useful for catering to balancing your power or performance preferences with modern laptops on Linux. It has worked well in general across various devices tested but it turns out to be a dud currently when it comes to AMD Ryzen powered Lenovo systems...

LLVM release manager Tom Stellard has branched the LLVM 14.0 code and that of its sub-projects like Clang within the mono repository. As such, LLVM 14.0 feature development is now over with the main Git branch working towards what will become LLVM 15.0 later this calendar year...

Trisquel 10.0 was released on Tuesday as the latest major release of this operating system that is one of the few GNU/Linux distributions endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. While it has the blessing of the FSF, it's a bit behind on the software feature front...

Oracle Linux appears somewhere unexpected: The Windows Store  The Register

Oracle Linux is now available for WSL in the Microsoft Store  BetaNews

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At Tidepool, where I work as a Community and Clinic Success Manager, the company's mission is to make diabetes software more accessible, meaningful, and actionable. Operating in the open is how we achieve that. Tidepool's diabetes management software is an open source platform free for both clinicians and people impacted by diabetes. And, because the company is a nonprofit, it also operates according to the transparency rules that govern 501(c)(3) organizations.

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Tiny Core Linux 13.0 released for older or lower-end x86 hardware  CNX Software

Linux Arcade Cab Gives Up Its Secrets Too Easily  Hackaday

Linux Lite 5.8 Release Includes Neofetch, Updated Theme, and New Wallpapers  It's FOSS News

We made enhancements to several Red Hat products and product documentation based on customer feedback in the past year. In this post, let's take a look at some of the improvements we made to the areas of support delivery and subscription management: