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LFCA: How to Improve Linux System Security – Part 20

Tecmint - Mon, 05/24/2021 - 15:51
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As we all know, the root user is king and wields unlimited privileges over the Linux system. However non-root users are limited to basic tasks. In addition, sudo users are only granted a certain

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4 steps to set up global modals in React

opensource.com - Mon, 05/24/2021 - 15:00

A modal dialog is a window that appears on top of a web page and requires a user's interaction before it disappears. React has a couple of ways to help you generate and manage modals with minimal coding.

If you create them within a local scope, you must import modals into each component and then create a state to manage each modal's opening and closing status.


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Keep tabs on your Linux computer specs with this desktop application

opensource.com - Mon, 05/24/2021 - 15:00

Whether I'm using a laptop my employer assigned to me or a workstation I built from vendor parts, I seem to have an endless capacity to forget my computer's specifications. One of the great things about Linux is its /proc filesystem, a dynamically populated virtual expression of the system's hardware. It's convenient when you want to see the specifics of your CPU (cat /proc/cpuinfo), uptime (cat /proc/uptime), a list of mounted filesystems (ls -R /proc/fs/), and so on.


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Linux 5.13-rc3 Released With The UMN Reverts+Fixes But Otherwise Small

Phoronix - Mon, 05/24/2021 - 06:38
Linus Torvalds has released the Linux 5.13-rc3 kernel as expected as the newest weekly test release of the forthcoming Linux 5.13...

Toggling Spectre Mitigations On Xeon Scalable Ice Lake Show Little Runtime Difference

Phoronix - Mon, 05/24/2021 - 00:44
As usual when getting my hands on a new processor family, I was curious about the performance difference if booting the Xeon Platinum 8380 "Ice Lake" processors with the Spectre security mitigations disabled at run-time. Ultimately there was very little difference when using the standard "mitigations=off" option for these new Intel server processors...

Intel Tiger Lake Performance On Ubuntu 21.04 Benchmarks

Phoronix - Sun, 05/23/2021 - 22:29
With recently showing desktops and servers enjoying better performance on Ubuntu 21.04 through high end hardware like Xeon Ice Lake, you might be wondering what this means for mobile Linux performance... Here are some quick weekend benchmarks of the Dell XPS laptop with Core i7 1165G7 "Tiger Lake" on Ubuntu 20.10 versus 21.04...

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