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Researchers Warn of Facefish Backdoor Spreading Linux Rootkits  The Hacker News

Chrome 91 released this week with WebAssembly SIMD by default, new JavaScript APIs, and other improvements. Plus there are also some performance improvements too, here are some benchmarks...

Chrome 91 Benchmarks On Linux Showing Off Even Better Performance  Phoronix

Last year we wrote about Dell working on a hardware privacy driver for Linux as with 2021 laptops they are beginning to add hardware-based privacy buttons for disabling microphone and camera support. That Dell Hardware Privacy platform support is now set to be introduced to the mainline kernel with Linux 5.14...

Dell Hardware Privacy Support Slated For Linux 5.14  Phoronix

The Linux 5.14 kernel this summer is going to bring a reworked user-space API for Intel's DG1 graphics card and their future discrete graphics offerings. This change to the Intel kernel graphics driver's user-space API, which is currently flagged as "broken" until it has been proven sufficiently capable for user-space needs and stable, is principally needed for handling of device local memory (dedicated vRAM)...

Linux 5.14 To Bring Reworked User-Space API For Intel Discrete Graphics  Phoronix

Major open source projects abandon Freenode following hostile takeover  TechRadar

Major open source projects abandon Freenode following hostile takeover  Techradar

Added to the Arch Linux install media back in April was Archinstall as a quick/easy installer for the Linux distribution. Released today is now Archinstall 2.2 as the latest advancement for this convenient Arch Linux installer...

Archinstall 2.2 Released For Improving This Easy-To-Use Arch Linux Installer  Phoronix

Punjabi University to work on operating system based on Linux  The Tribune

Punjabi University to work on operating system based on Linux  The Tribune

Microsoft releases the Linux-style Windows Package Manager v1.0 (Winget) as a Store alternative  BetaNews

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FreeBSD is a Free Unix-like operating system from Berkeley Software distribution, which is available for all major platforms x86_64, IA-32, PowerPC, ARM, etc, and mainly focuses on features, speed, and performance stability. FreeBSD used

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Part of publishing services on the cloud is providing users and developers easy access to those services through easy and reliable means. One of the most popular methods of interfacing with applications online is through an application programming interface (API), a fancy term that means you allow users to interact with your app through code.

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This isn't the first article I've written about trusted computing bases (TCBs), so if the concept is new to you, I suggest you have a look at What's a trusted compute base? to get an idea of what I'll be talking about here.

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Impact of Covid-19 on MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market –  Business-newsupdate.com

MS Office Alternative Software for Linux Market Overview 2021, Analysis by Leading Keyplayers| Google, Apple Inc, Yozodcs, Softmaker (freeoffice), Shimo, Tencent – The Courier  The Courier

Punjabi University to work on operating system based on Linux  The Tribune