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Week in review: Kali Linux 2020.4, AWS Network Firewall, speeding up malware analysis  Help Net Security

For over one year the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) has supported case-folding for optional case-insensitive file/folder support. The past number of years F2FS has also supported FSCRYPT-based file encryption. But now as we roll into 2021, support is finally seemingly ready for mainline in supporting casefolding with encryption enabled...

Out this weekend is Phoronix Test Suite 10.2-Harstad Milestone 1 as the first development snapshot of this next quarterly feature update to our cross-platform, open-source benchmarking software...

Best Microsoft tools created for Windows 10 power users Image  BleepingComputer

Within Intel's vast open-source software ecosystem and much of the attention being on oneAPI as their preferred programming model for developers these days and there being multiple different open-source Intel graphics compiler back-ends, one that is often forgotten about is the Intel C for Metal Compiler that on Friday saw a new release...

How to install FileZilla Server on Ubuntu 20.04/18.04 Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

How to Save the Command Output to a File in Linux Terminal  It's FOSS

In addition to squaring away the Radeon RX 6000 series RDNA 2 support and promoting the Arcturus support for the new GPU found within the AMD MI100 accelerator, this month AMD open-source Linux driver developers have been devoting a fair amount of work towards power optimizations...

AMDGPU Linux Driver Seeing A Lot Of Power Saving Optimization Work  Phoronix

Ahead of the holidays the KDE development work is as busy as ever from Plasma 5.21 to its large desktop application set...

Clang LTO Support For The Linux Kernel Spun Up A Seventh Time  Phoronix

Google engineers have sent out their latest patches for allowing the mainline Linux kernel to be built with LLVM Clang link-time optimizations (LTO) for greater performance and possibly size benefits...

EasyOS 2.5 Linux Distro Released With A New Game, Bluetooth Manager  Fossbytes

When the COVID-19 pandemic began canceling live music events in spring 2020, it wasn't just the big arena shows, music festivals, and small, local venues that suffered—the big annual marching band competition leagues, like Drum Corps International (DCI) and WGI World Championships, were also called off. This was a huge disappointment for the thousands of musicians and band directors who were already preparing for the spring and summer competition season.

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How to use free Microsoft 365 office Lite online version on Linux - Linux Shout  H2S Media

It's been seven years since the release of libX11 1.6.0 for this central X11 library while on Friday was replaced by the libX11 1.7 series. The release is primarily made up of fixes but leading to the version bump is a new API that allows for applications to recover from I/O error conditions rather than being forced to exit...

Monitoring failed login attempts on Linux  Network World

How to report security vulnerabilities to the Linux Foundation  LXer

We should be getting near the end of the Wine 5.xx development releases with the timed Wine 6.0 release likely to come in early 2021, but for now Wine 5.22 is out with the latest feature work for running Windows programs and games on Linux and macOS...

Why You Should Trust Open Source Software Security  ITPro Today