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Following the nasty local privilege escalation vulnerability that was disclosed last month for Polkit's pkexec, Fedora developers are hoping to make pkexec optional later this year with Fedora 37...

Week in review: Kali Linux 2022.1 released, attackers leveraging Microsoft Teams to spread malware  Help Net Security

I used to marvel at people who required more than one clock, each set to an exotic timezone, on the wall. I saw it mostly in movies, so when I met someone in real life with lots of clocks, it made them seem particularly important, like the leader of a global spy network or a big banking syndicate. And yet lately, I find myself needing to be aware of at least three different timezones on a regular basis. It's not that I've become more important, it's just that the world has gotten smaller, thanks to technology and remote work.

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Tiny Core Linux: The Smallest Linux Distro Ever Made  MUO - MakeUseOf

KDE vs. XFCE: Comparing the Two Linux Desktop Environments  MUO - MakeUseOf

Libinput 1.20 is out today as the first update since last September to this widely-used Linux input handling library that is relied on both within X.Org and Wayland powered desktops...

Install AngularJS in Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04 Linux - Linux Shout  Linux Shout

Install AngularJS in Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04 Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Piece Together a Repeatable Frontend Dev Environ on Linux – The New Stack  thenewstack.io

Ubuntu Privilege Escalation Security Flaw Puts Millions Of Linux Users At Risk  Hot Hardware

5 Reasons Why Linux Uses the Command Line So Much  MUO - MakeUseOf

How To Delete a Directory or File in Linux  Tom's Hardware

Building off last week's Radeon graphics driver updates for Linux 5.18 that included introducing AMDKFD CRIU and enabling FreeSync Video Mode by default, Friday evening brought a second batch of feature updates for this next kernel version...

While PostgreSQL has supported compression with its TOAST storage and over the past year has built-up LZ4 compression support for it along with compressing the WAL, backup compression, and other usage, PostgreSQL developers are preparing to further extend their compression capabiities with Zstd support...

Steam Deck will run native Linux games where it makes sense  TechRadar

Intel's forthcoming Arc Graphics "Alchemist" (DG2) graphics cards do support Resizable BAR functionality as covered when they previously published Linux patches for it. They are also now working on a DG2 feature for "small BAR" support...

Intel Working On "Small BAR" Linux Driver Support For DG2/Alchemist  Phoronix

It's been a while since last hearing anything of Linux block subsystem maintainer's Jens Axboe crusade on achieving the maximum possible IOPS-per-core. However, on Friday he was out with his latest insight in still declaring Intel's Core i9 12900K "Alder Lake" processor as being the king of IOPS-per-core performance at nearly 13M IOPS per CPU core...

2 ways to install LAMP server on Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04  Linux Shout

KDE developers had a very busy Valentine's week with working on more fixes for the recently released Plasma 5.24 as well as making early progress on Plasma 5.25 and improving KDE apps and other areas of their open-source desktop environment...