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Linux 5.13 Lands Support For Randomizing Stack Offsets Per Syscall

Phoronix - Wed, 04/28/2021 - 20:53
One of the new security features in Linux 5.13 is the ability to randomize kernel stack offsets at each system call. This optional feature is now mainlined...

openSUSE Leap 15.3 RC Available For Testing

Phoronix - Wed, 04/28/2021 - 20:42
The release candidate phase has begun for openSUSE's upcoming Leap 15.3 Linux distribution release...

Linux is Turning 30 Years Old & Printk Is Still Being Refined

Phoronix - Wed, 04/28/2021 - 19:07
The printk() function dates all the way back to the original Linux kernel release and even with Linux turning thirty years old this week, work on printk is not over...

AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 Brings Minor Improvements But No Vulkan Ray-Tracing Yet

Phoronix - Wed, 04/28/2021 - 18:15
AMD engineers today published AMDVLK 2021.Q2.2 as their latest open-source public code drop of their official Linux Vulkan driver...

Linux 5.13 Introducing Misc Cgroup Controller

Phoronix - Wed, 04/28/2021 - 17:59
The Linux 5.13 development kernel is introducing a new "misc" cgroup controller. The misc cgroup controller is to be used for resources that are controlled by simply counting / limiting the number of resource instances in a scalar manner...

Share files between Linux and Windows computers

opensource.com - Wed, 04/28/2021 - 15:02

If you work with different operating systems, it's handy to be able to share files between them. This article explains how to set up file access between Linux (Fedora 33) and Windows 10 using Samba and mount.cifs.


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5 ways to process JSON data in Ansible

opensource.com - Wed, 04/28/2021 - 15:01

Exploring and validating data from an environment is a common practice for preventing service disruptions. You can choose to run the process periodically or on-demand, and the data you're checking can come from different sources: telemetry, command outputs, etc.


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