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Slackware 15 Beta Process Begins

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 17:49
Back in February Slackware 15.0 went into alpha, nine years since Slackware 14.0 made its debut or even five years since Slackware 14.2. Now Slackware 15.0 is up to its beta phase...

Create an encrypted file vault on Linux

opensource.com - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 15:02

Recently, I demonstrated how to implement full-drive encryption on Linux with LUKS and the cryptsetup command. While encrypting a whole drive is useful in many cases, there are reasons you might not want to encode an entire drive. For instance, you might require a drive to work across several platforms, some of which may not have Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) integration.


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What's new with Drupal in 2021?

opensource.com - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 15:01

The success of open source projects is largely carried by the pillars of the community and group collaborations. Without putting a stake in the ground to achieve strategic initiatives, an open source project can lose focus. Open source strategic initiatives should aim at solving impactful problems through collaboration involving the project's stakeholders.


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Secret Memory Areas For Linux Might Finally Be Ready With memfd_secret

Phoronix - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 15:00
In development for more than one year has been the ability to create secret memory areas on Linux that would be visible only to the owning process and is not mapped for other processes or the kernel page tables. That "memfd_secret" system call has finally materialized in Linux-Next and looking like it could be ready for mainline...

Make Conway's Game of Life in WebAssembly

opensource.com - Tue, 04/13/2021 - 15:00

Conway's Game of Life is a popular programming exercise to create a cellular automaton, a system that consists of an infinite grid of cells. You don't play the game in the traditional sense; in fact, it is sometimes referred to as a game for zero players.


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