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New Linux Worm Attacks IoT Devices - Dark Reading

Google News - Thu, 06/27/2019 - 05:41
New Linux Worm Attacks IoT Devices  Dark Reading

A new Internet of Things (IoT) bricking worm — malware designed to permanently disable the hardware it infects — is hitting Linux-based devices, and it ...

Chrome OS 75 introduces USB support for Android devices in Linux - Neowin

Google News - Thu, 06/27/2019 - 04:14
Chrome OS 75 introduces USB support for Android devices in Linux  Neowin

Google has released another major update for Chrome OS, bringing it to version 75, on par with the Chrome browser. The update includes support for Android ...

Debian Installer Buster RC2 Released

Phoronix - Thu, 06/27/2019 - 03:44
With Debian 10 "Buster" aiming to be released in early July, a second release candidate of the Debian Installer has been made available...

SUSE Manager 4: Traditional server management marries DevOps - ZDNet

Google News - Thu, 06/27/2019 - 03:04
SUSE Manager 4: Traditional server management marries DevOps  ZDNet

The latest SUSE Linux server management program combines the best of older sysadmin approaches with Salt DevOps.

Pay What You Want: The Complete Linux eBook Bundle - Inverse

Google News - Thu, 06/27/2019 - 02:45
Pay What You Want: The Complete Linux eBook Bundle  Inverse

This book has extensive coverage of techniques that will help prevent attackers from breaching your system, by building a much more secure Linux environment.

Chrome OS 75 rolling out with Linux improvements, playing DRM video on external displays - 9to5Google

Google News - Thu, 06/27/2019 - 01:43
Chrome OS 75 rolling out with Linux improvements, playing DRM video on external displays  9to5Google

After rolling out to Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux, version 75 of Chrome OS is now available. Notable features include Linux improvements and more ...

DisplayPort 2.0 Published For 3x Increase In Data Bandwidth Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 06/27/2019 - 00:30
VESA announced their first major update to the DisplayPort interface in three years...

Tracking down library injections on Linux - Network World

Google News - Wed, 06/26/2019 - 23:08
Tracking down library injections on Linux  Network World

Library injections are less common on Linux than they are on Windows, but they're still a problem. Here's a look at how they work and how to identify them.

Tracking down library injections on Linux - Network World

Google News - Wed, 06/26/2019 - 23:08
Tracking down library injections on Linux  Network World

Library injections are less common on Linux than they are on Windows, but they're still a problem. Here's a look at how they work and how to identify them.

Concurrent Real-Time Introduces RedHawk Linux for NVIDIA's Jetson AGX Xavier - PRNewswire

Google News - Wed, 06/26/2019 - 23:00
Concurrent Real-Time Introduces RedHawk Linux for NVIDIA's Jetson AGX Xavier  PRNewswire

POMPANO BEACH, Fla., June 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Concurrent Real-Time, a global provider of high-performance Linux® solutions, today announced a ...

Linux 5.2 + Mesa 19.2 Performance With Polaris/Vega/Vega20 vs. NVIDIA On Ubuntu 19.04

Phoronix - Wed, 06/26/2019 - 22:00
With last week having delivered fresh benchmarks of the mid-range NVIDIA/AMD graphics cards using the very latest drivers, particularly the in-development Linux 5.2 and Mesa 19.2 components with the Radeon graphics cards tested, here is a similar comparison when moving up the spectrum and focusing on the higher-end graphics cards. Here's a look at how the RX 590, RX Vega 56, RX Vega 64, and Radeon VII are performing with the newest open-source AMD driver code compared to the NVIDIA Turing line-up backed by their latest binary driver.

The Effort To Parallelize GCC With Threads Is Starting To Take Shape

Phoronix - Wed, 06/26/2019 - 21:06
Back in April we wrote about a proposal for providing better parallelization within GCC itself to address use-cases such as very large source files. That effort was accepted as part of this year's Google Summer of Code and the student developer pursing this parallelization with threads has issued his first progress report...

Matthew R. Higgins - Linux Journal

Google News - Wed, 06/26/2019 - 21:02
Matthew R. Higgins  Linux Journal

Matthew Higgins is an English PhD student at Georgia State University. His current research interests include literacy studies, technology in higher education ...

Ten Years of "Linux in the GNU/South": an Overview of SELF 2019 - Linux Journal

Google News - Wed, 06/26/2019 - 21:02
Ten Years of "Linux in the GNU/South": an Overview of SELF 2019  Linux Journal

Highlights of the 2019 Southeast LinuxFest. The tenth annual SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF) was held on the weekend of June 14–16 at the Sheraton Charlotte ...

IGEL Drives the Rapid Growth of Linux OS-Based Devices at the Edge - PRNewswire

Google News - Wed, 06/26/2019 - 21:00
IGEL Drives the Rapid Growth of Linux OS-Based Devices at the Edge  PRNewswire

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- IGEL, provider of a next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces, today announced the conclusions of the new ...

Years Late But Saitek R440 Force Racing Wheel Support Is On The Way For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 06/26/2019 - 20:48
If you happen to have a Saitek R440 Force Wheel or looking to purchase a cheap and used racing wheel for enjoying the various Linux racing game ports or even the number of games working under Steam Play like F1 2018 and DiRT Rally 2.0, Linux support is on the way...

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Google News - Wed, 06/26/2019 - 20:31
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The process of Notepad++ installation performed on Ubuntu, however, it will be the same for Linux Mint, Debian and Elementary OS.

GCC 10 Lands Support For Intel Tiger Lake's AVX-512 VP2INTERSECT

Phoronix - Wed, 06/26/2019 - 19:15
Similar to the recent LLVM compiler work, the in-development GCC 10 compiler also now has support for the AVX-512 VP2INTERSECT instructions being introduced on Intel Tiger Lake CPUs...

Fedora's AAC Support Finally Seeing Audio Quality Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 06/26/2019 - 19:09
Fedora's version of the FDK-AAC library that they began shipping in 2017 to finally provide AAC audio support strips out what was patented encumbered functionality. But that gutting of the code did cause some problems like audio playback glitches that are now being addressed...

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