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Kubernetes 1.15 Releaased, Offensive Security Reveals the 2019-2020 Roadmap for Kali Linux, Canonical Releases a New Kernel Live Patch for Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04 LTS, Vivaldi 2.6 Now Available, and Mathieu Parent Announces GitLabracadabra  Linux Journal

News briefs for June 20, 2019. Kubernetes 1.15 was released yesterday. This is the second release of the year and contains 25 enhancements. The two main ...

More AMD Navi GPUs show up in a Linux driver  TechRadar

A since-deleted commit for a Linux driver update hints at 4 new AMD Navi GPUs.

Security-Oriented Alpine Linux Receives Serial & Ethernet Support for ARM Boards  Softpedia News

Natanael Copa's security-oriented Alpine Linux operating system has been updated to version 3.10.0, a major release that brings several new features, various ...

Linux Cryptominer Uses Virtual Machines to Attack Windows, macOS  BleepingComputer

A new cryptocurrency mining malware dubbed LoudMiner uses virtualization software to deploy a Linux XMRig coinminer variant on Windows and macOS ...

Optane SSD RAID Performance With ZFS On Linux, EXT4, XFS, Btrfs, F2FS  Phoronix

This round of benchmarking fun consisted of packing two Intel Optane 900p high-performance NVMe solid-state drives into a system for a *fresh* round of RAID ...

This round of benchmarking fun consisted of packing two Intel Optane 900p high-performance NVMe solid-state drives into a system for a fresh round of RAID Linux benchmarking atop the in-development Linux 5.2 kernel plus providing a fresh look at the ZFS On Linux 0.8.1 performance.

Canonical Outs New Linux Kernel Live Patch for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS  Softpedia News

Canonical released a new Linux kernel live patch for the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system series to ...

Kali Linux sets out its roadmap for 2019/20  BetaNews

Offensive Security, the team behind the security-focused, Debian-based, penetration testing Linux distro Kali Linux. has set out the roadmap for the operating ...

Botnets shift from Windows towards Linux and IoT platforms  OODA Loop

Distributed denial-of-*service* (DDoS) attacks carried out by botnets continue to be a major threat to websites, although attacks on Windows systems are declining ...

Fresh off yesterday's Qt 5.13 tool-kit release, The Qt Company today announced the Qt Creator 4.10 beta as their primarily Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment but that has been growing thanks to its Language Server Protocol support...

Digging into the new features in OpenZFS post-Linux migration  Ars Technica

ZFS on Linux 0.8 (ZoL) brought tons of new features and performance improvements when it was released on May 23. They came after Delphix announced that ...

Digging into the new features in OpenZFS post-Linux migration  Ars Technica

ZFS on Linux 0.8 (ZoL) brought tons of new features and performance improvements when it was released on May 23. They came after Delphix announced that ...

Firefox Users Warned to Patch Critical Flaw  TechNewsWorld

Firefox users should update their browsers immediately to fix a critical zero-day vulnerability. Anyone using Firefox on a Windows, macOS or Linux desktop is at ...

Debian GNU/Linux port for RISC-V 64-bits: Why it matters and roadmap  Packt Hub

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo, a Debian contributor and developer talked about the Debian GNU/Linux riscv64 port at the RISC-V workshop.

Intel Graphics Driver Ready For HDR Support In Linux 5.3, Other Last-Minute Features  Phoronix

While there still is a few weeks until the Linux 5.2 kernel will debut and thus the opening of the Linux 5.3 merge window, due to DRM-Next halting new feature ...

While there still is a few weeks until the Linux 5.2 kernel will debut and thus the opening of the Linux 5.3 merge window, due to DRM-Next halting new feature code from merging prior to that point, in preparation Intel open-source developers sent in their final batch of feature work aiming for Linux 5.3...

SUSE/openSUSE continues embracing the Btrfs file-system and now their YaST installer/manager can deal with multi-device Btrfs configurations...

Containers have shifted the way we think about virtualization. You may remember the days (or you may still be living them) when a virtual machine was the full stack, from virtualized BIOS, operating system, and kernel up to each virtualized network interface controller (NIC). You logged into the virtual box just as you would your own workstation. It was a very direct and simple analogy.

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The first article in this series introduced hashes, encryption/decryption, digital signatures, and digital certificates through the OpenSSL libraries and command-line utilities. This second article drills down into the details. Let’s begin with hashes, which are ubiquitous in computing, and consider what makes a hash function cryptographic.

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