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Thunderspy attack: How to protect your Mac, Windows or Linux computer from hackers  The Independent

FlightGear 2020.1 is out as the newest release to this long-running project providing an open-source flight simulator...

FlightGear 2020.1 Released For This Open-Source Flight Simulator  Phoronix

PineLoader: PinePhone's New Multi Bootloader To Boot Linux Mobile OSes  Fossbytes

Lnav Log Files Navigator Helps You Analyze Log Files in a Mac OS or Linux Terminal  CNX Software

Microsoft doc formats are the bane of office suites on Linux, but SoftMaker's Office 2021 beta may have a solution  The Register

Looking back to the start of the year, we could never have predicted what would befall our world as a result of COVID-19. Back then, the coronavirus was spreading in China, and while there were warnings of its potential to escalate across the world, few could imagine the tremendous shift it would bring to the status quo.

Today, we find ourselves living in a new normal. Working from home has become standard, the global economy is uncertain, hospitals are working harder than ever, and the world is waiting for a vaccine to provide reassurance that we can stop social distancing.

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Have you ever thought about how secure your Linux machine really is? There are numerous Linux distros, each with its own default settings, on which you run dozens of software packages with different version numbers, and numerous services running in the background, which we hardly know or care about.

To find the security posture—the overall security status of the software, network, and services running on your Linux machine—you could run a few commands and get bits and pieces of relevant information, but the amount of data you need to parse is huge.

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Stuck indoors like most of the rest of the world, a group of Opensource.com editors and correspondents—Seth Kenlon, Matt Broberg, Alan Formy-Duval, Jessica Cherry, and Chris Hermansen—decided to use their far-flung locations and variable-quality internet connections to try out several open source video-conferencing solutions.

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IPv6 addressing was developed in anticipation of depletion of the IPv4 addresses. It is meant to solve the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses through the use of a much wider network addressing space. An IPv6...

Linux Software Market Trend Expected To Guide From 2020-2027Growth Analysis By Manufacturers, Regions, Type And Application  Cole of Duty

How to Install DOSBox For Linux to Play Old DOS Games  stopthefud

Pineloader Is a Brand-New Multi Bootloader for Your Favorite Linux Phone  Softpedia News

Wraith Master 1.0 Released For Controlling AMD RGB Fans On Linux  Phoronix

Wraith Master 1.0 has been released as the "feature complete" version of this Linux GUI application for providing RGB lighting controls for the AMD Wraith Prism heatsink under Linux...

The Google-backed SESES pass for LLVM to help fend off speculative execution vulnerabilities has been merged for LLVM 11, but in opting to enable this patch you lose much of your system's performance...

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) today approved the plans for Fedora 33 to enable systemd-resolved by default...

Open source laptop runs Linux on i.MX8M  LinuxGizmos.com

Open source laptop runs Linux on i.MX8M  LinuxGizmos.com

PUPPY and Saving to USB? - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer