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The 6 Best Ethereum Mining Software for NVIDIA and AMD  MakeUseOf

How to Fix the "make: command not found" Error in Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

Landing via Andrew Morton's patch series today in the Linux 5.15 kernel is handling for demoting pages during memory reclaim, which can be used for punting cold pages off to slower, tiered memory devices (like Intel persistent memory) when under system memory pressure...

Linux 5.15 Has A Critical Improvement For Tiered Memory Servers  Phoronix

It looks like Paragon Software's NTFS3 kernel driver providing much better Linux support for the Microsoft NTFS file-system will land for the 5.15 kernel!..

The New NTFS File-System Driver Has Been Submitted For Linux 5.15  Phoronix

How to install fail2ban on Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux  TechRepublic

The last release of Gzip was v1.10 back at the end of 2018 while now it's finally been succeeded today by Gzip 1.11...

What You Missed in New York City This August (According to Linux)  Interview

Beware of malware attacks: Little-known facts and why they matter  Security Boulevard

Benchmarking The Performance Impact Of Linux 5.15's Newest Protection Around Side Channel Attacks  Phoronix

With the in-development Linux 5.15 kernel there is a new option for further protecting the kernel around side channel attacks and information leakage. Enabling the option will ensure that any caller-used register contents are zeroed prior to returning from a function. While the reported performance cost is said to be small, I decided to run some benchmarks when toggling this new Kconfig hardening option.

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Canonical is preparing to soon release Snapcraft 6.0 as the latest version of their utility for packaging and distributing Snaps, the Ubuntu-preferred route for sandboxed apps...

How to Install Dropbox on Ubuntu Linux  It's FOSS

The Freedesktop SDK as a platform and SDK run-time for Flatpak apps/run-times is out with its first major stable update in one year...

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has upstreamed its GNU Binutils support...

The latest security effort being pursued by Google's Kees Cook is to provide full compile-time and run-time coverage of all detectable buffer overflows...

Linux 5.15 Working Towards Comprehensive Compile-Time & Run-Time Detection Of Buffer Overflows  Phoronix

While Linux 5.15 has added KSMBD as an SMB3 in-kernel file server, the NFS code within the Linux kernel continues advancing as well for network file sharing needs. With NFS in Linux 5.15 are a few notable improvements...