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How to Configure SSH Passwordless Login on openSUSE 15.3

Tecmint - Wed, 06/15/2022 - 12:11
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One of the well-known and generally accepted OpenSSH best security practices is to configure and use public key authentication a.k.a passwordless authentication. Although this approach is fundamentally for security, on a lighter note, it

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Dasharo 1.0 Open-Source Firmware Released For MSI Alder Lake Motherboard

Phoronix - Wed, 06/15/2022 - 12:00
Earlier this year the folks at firmware consulting firm 3mdeb announced a open-source Coreboot port to a retail Intel Alder Lake motherboard. It's very exciting since outside of Chromebooks, IHV reference boards, and custom server platforms at hyperscalers, it's still rare to find Coreboot support on modern, retail boards. That "Dasharo" open-source firmware effort for the MSI Z690-A WiFi DDR4 has come together nicely over a matter of weeks and the developers are now celebrating their v1.0 release...

Proton 7.0-3 With More Games Running Well On Linux, Experimental Preps More Changes

Phoronix - Wed, 06/15/2022 - 06:31
Valve today promoted Proton 7.0-3 to stable as the newest version of this software based on Wine and leveraging DXVK / VKD3D-Proton and other components for running Windows games with great success on Linux. Proton 7.0-3 is now available for Steam Play when firing up the Steam client while Valve also today issued a new Proton Experimental update...

GIMP 2.10.32 Released With JPEG-XL Backported & Other Work While Waiting On GIMP 3.0

Phoronix - Wed, 06/15/2022 - 06:12
We have been writing about GIMP 3.0 for nearly a decade and with that stable release still out of sight, GIMP 2.10.32 is out as a six-month update to the aging GIMP 2.10 stable series...

Linux Patched For New Intel "MMIO Stale Data" Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Wed, 06/15/2022 - 01:39
In addition to the Hertzbleed frequency scaling side-channel attack being made public today as part of "Patch Tuesday" and affecting both Intel and AMD CPUs, Intel is additionally disclosing a set of "MMIO Stale Data" vulnerabilities. The Linux kernel has already been patched for these new vulnerabilities affecting multiple generations of Intel CPUs from Rocket Lake back to Haswell X and Skylake...

Hertzbleed Disclosed As New Family Of Side-Channel Attacks Affecting Intel + AMD

Phoronix - Wed, 06/15/2022 - 01:12
Hertzbleed has been made public today as a new family of side-channel attacks making use of frequency side channels. Both Intel and AMD have issued security advisories as a result...

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