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Linux turns 30: ​Linus Torvalds on his "just a hobby" operating system  ZDNet

The negative impact of poorly run meetings is huge. So leaders face a challenge: how do we turn poorly run meetings—which have a negative impact on team creativity, success, and even cause stress and anxiety—to meetings with positive outcomes? But to make the situation even tougher, we now find most meetings are being held remotely, online, where attendees' cameras are off and you're likely staring at a green dot at the top of your screen.

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Coinminers, web shells and ransomware made up 56% of malware targeting Linux systems in H1 2021  Help Net Security

Earlier this year when Clang LTO support was added for Linux 5.12 that link-time optimization support wasn't done solely for squeezing out greater performance but also because it's a prerequisite for making use of Clang's Control Flow Integrity (CFI) functionality. Google engineers have now sent out their latest set of patches for bringing up Clang CFI support within the Linux kernel...

Clang CFI Patches For The Linux Kernel Updated To Beef Up Security  Phoronix

QEMU 6.1 is out as the newest feature release to this widely-used, open-source Linux virtualization component...

SerenityOS is not a Linux distro, but a Unix-y love letter to the 1990s  BollyInside

1. Linux turns 30  Network World
2. Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years  The Register
3. This is why Linux is not an operating system  The Weston Forum
4. Linux at 30: How Android came to be, well, Android  Android Authority
5. Linux is 30 years old | Network World  Floridanewstimes.com
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Linux turns 30  Network World

Xiaomi Disrupts the Mi, Saygus Files Lawsuit, and New UI for Linux Phones Is Among the Latest Lilbits  BollyInside

Receive money to improve Linux security and open source software  BollyInside

Attackers increasingly target Linux in the cloud – Urgent Comms  Urgent Communications

Top Linux Malware? Not Ransomware, but Coinminers  Virtualization Review

Linux 101: with the zip command, create a compressed file of a folder  BollyInside

Trend Micro's Linux Threat Report lists the most susceptible security issues and distributions  BollyInside

Linux celebrates its 30th birthday today! How we found out about you  BollyInside

While there is still two months to go until the Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" release, since the feature freeze has now begun I've started some early testing of this next Ubuntu release. So far things are looking good as a nice upgrade over Ubuntu 21.04 and prior. Here is the first round of Ubuntu 21.04 vs. 21.10 development tests using an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X with Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics.

The Haiku open-source operating system project that continues advancing as the virtual successor to BeOS has been enjoying a successful summer...

Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Samsung, Oracle and RedHat conducted a SWOT study of the global Linux software market from 2021 to 2027  BollyInside

DebConf21 officially got underway this morning with being a second year of this annual Debian conference being held exclusively online due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic...