Open-source News

Red Hat 8.5 released with SQL Server and .NET 6 ... this is Linux, right?  The Register

The Chrome OS virtual keyboard is joining the dark side, adding Linux app support, and more  Chrome Unboxed

OEMs have begun releasing updated BIOS/firmware revisions to address new security vulnerabilities disclosed this week by Intel. Most pressing are potential security vulnerabilities within the BIOS reference code used by various Intel CPUs that could lead to privilege escalation by local users and ranked a "high" impact severity...

BIOS Updates Begin Appearing For New Intel Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities  Phoronix

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...

Linux Operating System Market Is Likely to Enjoy a Tremendous Growth in Near Future | Linux Mint, Fedora Linux, Manjaro  Energy Siren

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...

Jaegeuk Kim submitted the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates on Wednesday for the nearly over Linux 5.16 merge window...

Install Security Patches or Updates Automatically on Rocky or AlmaLinux 8  H2S Media

The Linux Foundation Announces Keynote Speakers for Open Source Summit Japan + Automotive Linux Summit 2021  thepress.net

The Linux Foundation Announces Keynote Speakers for Open Source Summit Japan + Automotive Linux Summit 2021  PRNewswire

BNY Mellon Joins Linux Foundation to Drive Open-Source Climate Data and Analytics Solutions  PR Newswire UK

BNY Mellon Joins Linux Foundation to Drive Open-Source Climate Data and Analytics Solutions  PRNewswire

How to install Podman on Rocky Linux 8 / AlmaLinux to run Containers  H2S Media

IoT and Blockchain Market is touching new level – A comprehensive study with key players Cisco Systems, Linux Foundation, KrypC Technologies  Energy Siren

Red Hat 8.5 released with SQL Server and .NET 6 ... this is Linux, right?  The Register

The tech pro's guide to Linux Mint  TechRepublic

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

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...

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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