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For those with some extra time around the US Thanksgiving holiday, the Arcan display server/environment is out with a new release. This is the interesting project that's powered in part by a game engine, offers X11 and Wayland compatibility, ported to BSDs, and more recently has been exploring VR and other desktop innovations...

Git is a popular version-control system, primarily used for code but popular in other disciplines, too. It can run locally on your computer for personal use, it can run on a server for collaboration, and it can also run as a hosted service for widespread public participation. There are many hosted services out there, and one of the most popular brands is GitHub.

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Best forensic and pentesting Linux distros of 2020  TechRadar

The latest episode of The Open Source Creative Podcast is good for anyone interested in using HDRIs in their work (typically 3D art and VFX), but may also be of interest to folks with an interest in photography and the process of creating their own high dynamic range images. In this episode, Greg Zaal shares about HDRI Haven, a place where you can get free, high-quality 360-degree HDR images under a CC0 license.

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Best forensic and pentesting Linux distros of 2020  TechRadar

Best forensic and pentesting Linux distros of 2020  Techradar

Best forensic and pentesting Linux distros of 2020  TechRadar

AV Linux 2020.11.23 Released, Based On MX Linux 19.3 'Patito Feo'  Fossbytes

The Godot Game Engine has been funding work on a GPU-based texture compressor to deal with the issue that importing textures to this leading open-source game engine can often be painfully slow...

Thonny is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Python beginners. It is created with Python and released under MIT License. It is cross-platform and can run in Linux, macOS, Windows. Related Article: 10 Best

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backspace keeps reverting to deleting only a single character - Linux & Unix  BleepingComputer

ZDNet and Linux often provide a good chance for a laugh  iTWire

Tuxera First to Bring Network Bandwidth-Saving SMB Compression Feature to Linux Environments  Yahoo Finance

Tuxera First to Bring Network Bandwidth-Saving SMB Compression Feature to Linux Environments  PRNewswire

Tuxera First to Bring Network Bandwidth-Saving SMB Compression Feature to Linux Environments  Yahoo Finance

Blender has been gaining a lot of ground this year with numerous prominent organizations now backing its development (just most recently, Facebook) and just at the end of summer they delivered Blender 2.90 while out today is Blender 2.91...

Linux Botnet Disguises Itself as Apache Server  BankInfoSecurity.com

PHP 8.0 is scheduled for release tomorrow on the US Thanksgiving day. PHP 8.0 brings with it many new language features on top of the opt-in JIT compiler support. Here is a look at some of the PHP 8.0 changes along with a quick look at the near final performance of PHP 8.0 on an AMD EPYC Linux server...

The Performance Impact To POWER9's Eager L1d Cache Flushing Fix  Phoronix

Last week a new vulnerability was made public for IBM POWER9 processors resulting in a mitigation of the processor's L1 data cache needing to be flushed between privilege boundaries. Due to the possibility of local users being able to obtain data from the L1 cache improperly when this CVE is paired with other side channels, the Linux kernel for POWER9 hardware is flushing the L1d on entering the kernel and on user accesses. Here are some preliminary benchmarks looking at how this security change impacts the overall system performance.