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GNOME 41 Beta for Linux is now available: packages have been updated  BollyInside

Ulauncher is a pretty useful Linux application launcher  BollyInside

Red Hat Announces Second FIPS 140-2 Validation for RHEL 8  Database Trends and Applications

13 million malware attacks on Linux seen in wild  ComputerWeekly.com

13 million malware attacks on Linux seen in wild  ComputerWeekly.com

Shortly after Intel's TDX whitepaper was made public last year for better protecting virtual machines, Intel open-source engineers began posting support patches for bringing up Trust Domain Extensions under Linux. That work remains ongoing and now further Linux kernel infrastructure work is pending to better deal with the notion of guest private memory afforded by TDX...

Apple M1 Now Boots Gnome Desktop on Debian Linux  Tom's Hardware

Apple M1 Now Boots Gnome Desktop on Debian Linux  Tom's Hardware

GNOME 41 Beta is currently available for Linux: package updates have been made  BollyInside

Made public on Monday was CVE-2021-35465 as a new security vulnerability affecting various Arm products. For unmitigated (ARMv8-M) hardware, Arm has posted a series of GCC compiler patches for working around the issue...

GNOME 41 Beta is Now Available For Linux--Here Are the Updated Packages  Tech Times

New Linux malware family evades antivirus detection  TechRadar

Announced back in April of 2020 was Micron's HSE as an open-source storage engine optimized for solid-state drives and persistent memory. After quickly crossing the v1.0 milestone and working its way up to HSE 1.9 at the end of last year, there hasn't been any updates since. Fortunately, the project is still alive and HSE 2.0 is on the way...

One of the areas where AMD's long-standing "PRO" OpenGL driver has generally held an advantage over RadeonSI Gallium3D has been around workstation software but that has been changing...

Choosing and changing your Linux shell  Network World

Linux cloud environments face an onslaught of malware attacks  TechRadar

One year ago to the day Intel announced OSPray Studio as a scene graph application for rendering glTF assets and other 3D models. OSPray Studio is built off their OSPray ray-tracing engine that they've been working on for years. These Intel efforts are all part of their oneAPI initiative and today happens to mark a shiny new feature release...

AMDVLK 2021.Q3.5 is out as the newest snapshot for this open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan Linux driver...

Terminal commands usually have options or switches, which you can use to modify how the command does what it does. Options are included in the POSIX specification for command-line interfaces.

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Linux turns 30  Network World