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Fork Brute Force Attack Detection/Mitigation Still Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 05/22/2021 - 17:48
A security module continues to be worked on for being able to detect and mitigate against fork/execute brute force attacks to Linux systems...

KDE Introduces KCommandBar For HUD-Style Popups

Phoronix - Sat, 05/22/2021 - 17:23
Following the introduction of KHamburgerMenu, the latest KDE user-interface element being introduced is KCommandBar for expert-focused, HUD-style pop-ups...

17 true stories about switching to Linux

opensource.com - Sat, 05/22/2021 - 15:00

It's been 30 years since Linus Torvalds created Linux, way back in 1991, as a free alternative to Unix. In that time, it's grown from a niche project to a powerful, widely used operating system that sustains much of what's essential in modern computing—the cloud, the Internet of Things, supercomputers, the devices that kept students learning during a global pandemic, and much, much more.


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RHEL 8.4 Released With Tiger Lake Graphics, Expanded eBPF Support

Phoronix - Sat, 05/22/2021 - 05:10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 has reached general availability (GA) status as the latest iteration of RHEL8...

Wine 6.9 Released With More Improvements For Running Windows Apps/Games On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 05/22/2021 - 04:26
Wine 6.9 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows applications and games on Linux and other Unix-like platforms...

SiFive HiFive Unmatched RISC-V Developer Boards Begin Shipping

Phoronix - Sat, 05/22/2021 - 01:33
Announced last year was the HiFive Unmatched as the most compelling RISC-V development board to date. Following supply chain issues and everything else brought on by the pandemic, this very interesting RISC-V developer board is now shipping to customers...

Clear Linux Offers Up Advantages For Ice Lake Xeon, CentOS Comes In Strong

Phoronix - Sat, 05/22/2021 - 00:50
Earlier this week when posting Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 20.10 / 21.04 benchmarks on the new Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 "Ice Lake" server processors, one of the first questions that came up was about how well these new 10nm server CPUs perform with Intel's own Clear Linux distribution. While Clear Linux releases have become much less frequent and far less to communicate these days on new improvements/optimizations among other ongoing shifts with that Intel open-source project, it is still performing very strongly with 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable hardware. CentOS in these tests also had a strong showing with the increasing performance focus on that front.

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