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BMW is switching gears from Linux to Android Automotive next year  Android Police

Hacking Linux is Easy with PwnKit | eSecurityPlanet  eSecurity Planet

Unity 7.6 Released as the First Major Update to Ubuntu’s Unity7 Desktop in 6 Years  9to5Linux

This month Ubuntu developers have been trying to figure out how to best deal with systemd-oomd on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS killing applications like Firefox during high memory/swap use and that leading to a poor user experience when desktop users not being aware of the situation and suddenly finding their software killed...

Rust 1.62 is out today as the latest update to this popular systems programming language with a few notable changes...

It was on this day in 1992 that Silicon Graphics (SGI) released OpenGL to the world...

Rust in Linux 5.20 | Deepfake Hiring Fraud | IBM WFH ‘New Normal’  DevOps.com

4 Ways to install GIMP on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy  Linux Shout

Old school editor Vim hits version 9 with faster scripting language  The Register

How to add and manage groups in SFTPGo  TechRepublic

How to Open ISO, TAR, ZIP, and 7z Files on a Chromebook  MUO - MakeUseOf

Over the many years of covering Coreboot (going back to when it was called LinuxBIOS!) on Phoronix the selection of supported motherboards has been rather unfortunate especially over the last decade. If wanting to run Coreboot on a system today it basically means running a Google Chromebook, using an outdated server motherboard or old Lenovo ThinkPad that has seen a Coreboot port, or out of reach to most individuals are various server motherboards that are reference platforms or board designs from hyperscalers. But over the past several months the folks at the 3mdeb consulting firm have carried out a terrific feat: porting their "Dasharo" downstream of Coreboot to a modern and readily available Intel desktop motherboard. I've been trying this out and it has worked out surprisingly well. Here are my experiences and benchmarks of Coreboot/Dasharo on this Intel Alder Lake motherboard.

Microsoft warning: This malware that targets Linux just got a big update  ZDNet

CISA sounds the alarm over high-severity bug in all major Linux distros  TechRadar

Intel has sent in their latest batch of drm-intel-gt-next changes to DRM-Next of their i915 kernel graphics driver changes targeting Linux 5.20. In addition to a lot of code churn still around DG2/Alchemist, the open-source Intel driver for Linux 5.20 is also making more preparations for Ponte Vecchio enablement...

Earlier this month Intel began committing Meteor Lake code to Coreboot for beginning to enable what will be the 14th Gen Core processors under this open-source system firmware solution used by Google Chromebooks and other use-cases. Intel engineers are ending out June with more Meteor Lake enablement code landing ahead of these processors expected to launch in 2023...

The newest member of the Raspberry Pi family is the Pico W and will set you back $6...

Install Python 3.9 or 3.8 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy JellyFish  Linux Shout

Growth Drivers of Penetration Testing Software Market with Relevancy Mapping by Key Player like Netsparker, Acunetix, Core Impact, Metasploit, Wireshark, Kali Linux, and more | Forecast 2022-2028 – Indian Defence News  Indian Defence News

tio is a serial device I/O tool for Linux targeted at embedded developers  CNX Software