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MOVING DOCUMENTS from sda1 to sdb1 - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

Earlier this month were benchmarks looking at GCC 11 performance with varying optimization levels and features like link-time optimizations. Stemming from reader requests, here are now similar reference benchmarks off LLVM Clang 12.0 on the same system with going from -O0 to -Ofast and toggling -march=native and LTO usage.

Earlier this month systemd 249-rc1 arrived with a variety of new features and improvements. Now for closing out the month is a second release candidate...

If all is looking well on Sunday, Linus Torvalds will be releasing Linux 5.13 as stable rather than going with a 5.13-rc8 test release and pushing the final version back by an additional release. In either case, Linux 5.13 is coming out soon and with many new features in tow...

Linux on Chromebooks: Underappreciated versatility as an app solution  About Chromebooks

A Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is a complete, formally structured list of components, libraries, and modules required to build (i.e., compile and link) a given piece of software and the supply chain relationships between them. These components can be open source or proprietary, free or paid, and widely available or restricted access. SBOMs that can be shared without friction between teams and companies are a core part of software management for critical industries and digital infrastructure in the coming decades.

SBOMs are especially critical for a national digital infrastructure used within government agencies and in critical industries that present national security risks if penetrated. SBOMs would improve understanding of those software components’ operational and cyber risks from their originating supply chain.

This SBOM readiness survey is the Linux Foundation’s first project addressing how to secure the software supply chain. The foundation of this project is a worldwide survey of IT professionals who understand their organization’s approach to software development, procurement, compliance, or security.  Organizations surveyed will include both software producers and consumers. An important driver for this survey is the recent Executive Order on Cybersecurity, which focuses on producing and consuming SBOMs.

The objectives of the survey are as follows:

• How concerned are organizations about software security?
• How familiar are organizations with SBOMs?
• How ready are organizations to consume and produce SBOMs?
• What is your commitment to the timeline for addressing SBOMs?
• What benefits do you expect to derive from SBOMs?
• What concerns you about SBOMs?
• What capabilities are needed in SBOMs?
• What do organizations need to improve their SBOM operability?
• How important are SBOMS relative to other ways to secure the software supply chain?

Data from this survey will enable the development of a maturity model that will focus on how the increasing value provided by SBOMs as organizations build out their SBOM capabilities.

The survey is available in seven languages:

• English
• Chinese
• Japanese
• Korean
• German
• French
• Russian

To take the 2021 State of SBOM Readiness Survey, click the button for your desired language/region below:

Take Survey (EN) (ZH) 民意调查 (FR) Enquête (DE) Umfrage (JA) 調査 (KO) 서베이 (RU) Oпрос

BONUS

As a thank-you for your participation, you will receive a 20% registration discount to attend the Open Source Summit/Embedded Linux Conference event upon completion of the survey. Please note this discount is not transferable, and may not be combined with other offers.

PRIVACY

Personally identifiable information will not be published. Reviews are attributed to your role, company size, and industry. Responses will be subject to the Linux Foundation’s Privacy Policy, available at https://linuxfoundation.org/privacy. 

VISIBILITY

We will summarize the survey data and share the findings at the Open Source Summit/Embedded Linux Conference in September.

QUESTIONS

If you have questions regarding this survey, please email us at research@linuxfoundation.org. 

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The Linux kernel may not be quite as secure as it should be  Techradar

The Linux kernel may not be quite as secure as it should be  Techradar

The Linux kernel may not be quite as secure as it should be  TechRadar

Among the many projects under the GNU umbrella, the GNU Health official project has been about working on the libre digital health ecosystem and their most recent effort is on MyGNUHealth as an effort around libre personal health records...

Announcing the GA of Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows  ARC Viewpoints

Following the announcement this week that AMD is dropping pre-Polaris GPU support (or pre-Raven Ridge support for APUs) from their mainline Radeon Software driver on Windows, the AMDVLK open-source Vulkan driver has also now similarly discontinued that older GPU support...

Linux Operating System Market Scenario & Prominent Key Players Analysis 2021 to 2027 – WEIS  WEIS

Sometimes, a program needs enough parameters that putting them all as command-line arguments or environment variables is not pleasant nor feasible. In those cases, you will want to use a configuration file.

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When I first started using DOS, I enjoyed writing games and other interesting programs using BASIC, which DOS included. Much later, I learned the C programming language.

I immediately loved working in C! It was a straightforward programming language that gave me a ton of flexibility for writing useful programs. In fact, much of the FreeDOS core utilities are written in C and Assembly.

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As a longtime volunteer and mentor (and current board member) at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and vice president of the Apache Incubator, I'm proud to offer my insights into the unique processes and values with which the ASF operates.

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The post Linux Mint 20.1 Installation, Review, and Customization first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Linux Mint is arguably one of the easiest and most user-friendly Linux-based operating systems to come by in the Linux world, and while it might be second to Ubuntu in popularity, it remains the

The post Linux Mint 20.1 Installation, Review, and Customization first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Simon Ser has released Sway 1.6.1 as the newest version of this popular i3-inspired Wayland compositor...

Rocky Linux Is Ready For Prime Time!  Hackaday

There's the next chapter to the unfortunately rather sad state of the AMD Sensor Fusion Hub (SFH) driver support under Linux...