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The last release of Gzip was v1.10 back at the end of 2018 while now it's finally been succeeded today by Gzip 1.11...

What You Missed in New York City This August (According to Linux)  Interview

Beware of malware attacks: Little-known facts and why they matter  Security Boulevard

Benchmarking The Performance Impact Of Linux 5.15's Newest Protection Around Side Channel Attacks  Phoronix

With the in-development Linux 5.15 kernel there is a new option for further protecting the kernel around side channel attacks and information leakage. Enabling the option will ensure that any caller-used register contents are zeroed prior to returning from a function. While the reported performance cost is said to be small, I decided to run some benchmarks when toggling this new Kconfig hardening option.

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Canonical is preparing to soon release Snapcraft 6.0 as the latest version of their utility for packaging and distributing Snaps, the Ubuntu-preferred route for sandboxed apps...

How to Install Dropbox on Ubuntu Linux  It's FOSS

The Freedesktop SDK as a platform and SDK run-time for Flatpak apps/run-times is out with its first major stable update in one year...

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has upstreamed its GNU Binutils support...

The latest security effort being pursued by Google's Kees Cook is to provide full compile-time and run-time coverage of all detectable buffer overflows...

Linux 5.15 Working Towards Comprehensive Compile-Time & Run-Time Detection Of Buffer Overflows  Phoronix

While Linux 5.15 has added KSMBD as an SMB3 in-kernel file server, the NFS code within the Linux kernel continues advancing as well for network file sharing needs. With NFS in Linux 5.15 are a few notable improvements...

The Best VPN Services for Linux Users in 2021  I4U News

Monitoring IT assets is an essential task for any IT department. Still, due to the growing number of devices in corporate networks, it is getting more and more challenging to find an approach that is flexible enough to monitor the wide range of available systems properly. It's essential to have a monitoring tool that is flexible, scalable, and easy to use.

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Red Hat is said to be establishing a "small team" to work on activities around EPEL, the "Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux" that is popular with RHEL/CentOS users for easily fetching extra packages not available via RHEL proper...

Printing on Linux is easy, but sometimes it feels like a lot of work to launch an application, open a file, find the Print selection in the menu, click a confirmation button, and so on. When you're a Linux terminal user, you often want to perform complex actions with simple triggers. Printing is complex, and there's little as simple as the lpr command.

Print using the lpr command

To print a file from your terminal, use the lpr command:

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The post 10 sFTP Command Examples to Transfer Files on Remote Servers in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) was a widely used protocol to transfer files or data remotely in an unencrypted format which is not a secure way to communicate. As we all know that File Transfer

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The post 10 Useful “IP” Commands to Configure Network Interfaces first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

The ip command is a new networking command-line utility that is used to assign an IP address to a network interface or configure/update useful network variables on a Linux system. It is a part

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For the 30th anniversity of the Linux kernel and the 2nd version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2), we talked to Red Hatters who have been involved with Linux since the early days. Read our interview with Senior Software Engineer Stephen Smoogen.