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Linux To Report MIPS Vulnerabilities But They Often Go Unreported Or Dead Vendors

Phoronix - Thu, 12/31/2020 - 22:17
The Linux kernel with the likes of ARM and x86 hardware leverage kernel infrastructure for reporting their relevant CPU security mitigations while only now the MIPS kernel code is seeing work to report such vulnerabilities. However, on the MIPS front it's more difficult with some vendors not publicly acknowledging vulnerabilities and other cases of MIPS hardware vendors no longer producing the hardware in question or even in business...

Linux 5.10-ck1 Released With Updated MuQSS Scheduler

Phoronix - Thu, 12/31/2020 - 20:43
Con Kolivas took some time out of his New Year's Eve to release Linux 5.10-ck1 as his independent patch-set applied to the recently minted Linux 5.10 kernel and with that the latest MuQSS scheduler...

Fedora Had A Super Year From Lenovo Preloads To Btrfs To Many Other New Features

Phoronix - Thu, 12/31/2020 - 19:31
The Fedora project had a pretty terrific and exciting year especially with everything happening in the world this year. Fedora began appearing on more Lenovo device pre-loads, many features landed like Btrfs by default in Fedora Workstation, they continue to be leading the Wayland charge, and a lot of great engineering work by the folks from Red Hat...

Fedora 34 Plans To Provide Xfce 4.16 Desktop Packages

Phoronix - Thu, 12/31/2020 - 17:39
While it shouldn't come as much of a surprise given Fedora's tendency to always ship with the freshest open-source packages, but Fedora 34 should be including the latest Xfce 4.16 desktop packages for those seeking that GTK based desktop...

Build your own text editor in Java

opensource.com - Thu, 12/31/2020 - 16:02

There are a lot of text editors available. There are those that run in the terminal, in a GUI, in a browser, and in a browser engine. Many are very good, and some are great. But sometimes, the most satisfying answer to any question is the one you build yourself.


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