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Understanding Linux File Timestamps: mtime, ctime, and atime  MUO - MakeUseOf

15-year-old Linux kernel bugs let attackers gain root privileges  BleepingComputer

If all goes well FreeBSD 13.0 will be officially released before the end of the month while out this weekend is the second release candidate for testing...

How to install Apache, MySQL and PHP on AlmaLinux 8 - Linux Shout  H2S Media

Per reader requests, several software-defined radio (SDR) benchmarks have been added alongside the 640+ other distinct workloads available for benchmarking via the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org...

One year into the pandemic the KDE developers remain as busy as ever advancing their free software desktop solution...

GRUB 2.06 was originally anticipated for release in 2020 but then the BootHole security vulnerability foiled those plans. This long awaited bootloader update though is near with GRUB 2.06-RC1 being issued on Friday and plans to formally release it in about one month's time...

The Raspberry Pi 400 promises to be a boon to the homeschool market. In addition to providing an easy-to-assemble workstation that comes loaded with free software, the Pi 400 also serves as a surprisingly effective videoconferencing platform. I ordered a Pi 400 from CanaKit late last year and was eager to explore this capability.

Easy setup

After unboxing my Pi 400, which came in this lovely package, the setup was quick and easy.

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Even if you haven't heard of a theremin, you're probably familiar with the eerie electronic sound it makes from watching TV shows and movies like the 1951 science fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still. Theremins have also appeared in popular music, although often in the form of a theremin variant.

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Binomial's Basis Universal GPU texture codec for highly-compressed textures is now even faster when ETC1S encoding to this intermediate format...

Linux Operating System Market 2021 Industry Overview, Global Size, Regional Analysis and Competitor Strategy by Key Compines – NeighborWebSJ  NeighborWebSJ

Wine 6.4 is out today as the newest bi-weekly point release for running your favorite Windows applications and games on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

Google has published their proof-of-concept code showing the practicality of Spectre exploits within modern web browsers' JavaScript engines. The code is out there and you can even try it for yourself on the leaky.page web-site...

7-Zip, the open source file archiver, is now available for Linux  XDA Developers

Pi Day history: From Einstein to Linux to Stephen Hawking  CNET

Another feature tacked onto the big GNOME 40 desktop update is a headless native back-end for Mutter and the ability to easily create virtual monitors...

Linux Kernel Found With High Severity Privilege Escalation Bugs  Toolbox

With GCC 11 stable likely to be released next month, here is the latest in our compiler testing against the current GCC 10 stable release. This round of tests was carried out on a System76 Thelio Major with Ryzen Threadripper 3990X HEDT processor.

Users could gain root privilege through three flaws sitting in Linux kernel  SC Magazine

Tuxedo launches Book XP15 / XP17 Linux laptops with Nvidia RTX 3000 GPUs  Notebookcheck.net