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Now-fixed Linux kernel vulnerabilities enabled local privilege escalation (CVE-2021-26708) - Help Net Security  Help Net Security

Researchers discover and patch Linux kernel vulnerabilities | 2021-03-03  Security Magazine

OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 Alpha started rolling out in December while today the beta builds have begun for this next openSUSE Leap installment...

OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 Alpha started rolling out in December while today the beta builds have begun for this next openSUSE Leap installment...

Malicious NPM Packages Steal Linux and Unix Password Files of Amazon, Slack, and More  Tech Times

For those wanting to help in testing out the Linux 5.12 kernel, at least it should no longer eat your data now if you rely on a swapfile...

Linux 5.12 Lands Fix For File-System Corruption Caused By Swapfile Issue  Phoronix

For those wanting to help in testing out the Linux 5.12 kernel, at least it should no longer eat your data now if you rely on a swapfile...

The experimental NIR back-end for the R600 Gallium3D driver as an alternative to the default TGSI code-path has now enabled OpenGL 4.5 support for capable GPUs...

The experimental NIR back-end for the R600 Gallium3D driver as an alternative to the default TGSI code-path has now enabled OpenGL 4.5 support for capable GPUs...

Linux-based Set Top Box Market Growth, Analysis of Key Players, Trends, Drivers  AlgosOnline

Thycotic Announces Endpoint Privilege Management Solution for Unix/Linux  Security Boulevard

Privilege Manager 11: New privilege management capabilities for Unix and Linux  Security Boulevard

While DXVK has been receiving much attention these days for implementing Direct3D 9/10/11 atop the Vulkan API that can be consumed in a driver agnostic manner, Gallium Nine as a D3D9 state tracker going back years for Mesa continues to receive new work too...

While VKD3D has been receiving much attention these days for implementing Direct3D 9/10/11 atop the Vulkan API that can be consumed in a driver agnostic manner, Gallium Nine as a D3D9 state tracker going back years for Mesa continues to receive new work too...

Raspberry Pi's single-board machines have set the mark for cheap, real-world computing. With its model 4, the Raspberry Pi can host web applications with a production-grade web server, a transactional database system, and dynamic content through scripting. This article explains the installation and configuration details with a full code example. Welcome to web applications hosted on a very lightweight computer.

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I'm a fairly recent convert to Rust, which I started to learn around the end of April 2020. But, like many converts, I'm an enthusiastic evangelist. I'm also not a very good Rustacean, truth be told, in that my coding style isn't great, and I don't write particularly idiomatic Rust. I suspect this is partly because I never really finished learning Rust before diving in and writing quite a lot of code (some of which is coming back to haunt me) and partly because I'm just not that good a programmer.

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In this edition of our open source news roundup, learn about open source on Mars, System76's new keyboard, a 5G open source stack, and more.

Open source goes to Mars

When NASA's latest Mars rover hit the Red Planet in February, it was partially powered by open source software.

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How to create a bootable USB with Windows or Linux  Explica

Global Linux Operating System Market 2021 – IBM, Ubuntu Linux, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, openSUSE – KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper  KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper