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New Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw Uncovered in Snap Package Manager  The Hacker News

Red Hat's David Airlie continues carrying out almost magical work on the open-source Linux graphics stack. Reviving some work he originally started a while back, patches pending for Mesa allow speeding up the software-based LLVMpipe OpenGL driver for vertex and fragment shader processing...

Sharing a computer in a household is usually a pretty casual affair. When you need the computer, you pick it up and start using it. It's simple in theory, and mostly works. That is, until you accidentally grab the common computer and accidentally post screenshots of your server's uptime to your partner's cooking blog. Then it's time for separate user accounts.

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How to Install Budgie Desktop on AlmaLinux | Rocky Linux 8  Linux Shout

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DBeaver is an open-source, fully-featured, and cross-platform universal database management tool and SQL client that runs on Linux operating systems, Windows, and macOS. It supports more than 80 database management systems including PostgreSQL, MySQL,

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Google in cooperation with AOMedia this week released the AOM-AV1 v3.3 encoder for this royalty-free video codec...

Bottles 2022.2.14 Release Lets You Easily Install Windows Apps on Linux  It's FOSS News

How to Transfer Files between Linux/Windows/Mac/Android/iPhone  BollyInside

In addition to the road-map update for Arc Graphics and Sapphire Rapids along with announcing Falcon Shores as a server CPU/APU/XPU pulling in Xe Graphics, Intel's 2022 Investor Meeting also made other updates and some new disclosures...

Multiple vulnerabilities found in Snap-confine function on Linux systems  ZDNet

Black/White, multicolor static screen when shutting/reopening MacBook Pro - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Using the Linux host command to dig out DNS details  Network World

How to Install the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11  BollyInside

Linux Process Management: The Ultimate Guide  MUO - MakeUseOf

Goodbye, CentOS: How to Install Rocky Linux 8  MUO - MakeUseOf

The Clutter toolkit -- as the OpenGL-based graphics library for rendering UIs that dates back more than one decade to OpenedHand that was then acquired by Intel and notably used during the Moblin/MeeGo era -- is finally being officially retired...

Vulnerability in Linux program enables local privilege escalation, researchers report  VentureBeat

1. Vulnerability in Linux program enables local privilege escalation, researchers report  VentureBeat
2. Linux kernel patches remote stack overflow bug  SC Media
3. Linux devs fix nasty vulnerability dating back half a decade  TechRadar
4. Linux Kernel Stack Overflow Patched | Decipher  Decipher
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Thanks to Google engineers there is Resizable BAR "ReBAR" support being worked on for the open-source Coreboot...

Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows Gets Continuous Release Update Branch  Redmondmag.com