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Canonical makes Ubuntu for Windows SubSystem for Linux a priority  ZDNet

While lossy compression audio formats like MP3 are not recommended for use within professional audio tasks, for those using the open-source Ardour digital audio workstation (DAW) software as of today there is finally native MP3 import support...

New Linux vulnerability puts VPN connections at risk of hijacking  HackRead

Linux Flaw Allows VPN Hijacking | Decipher  Decipher

Still in preview, but look! You can now develop Azure Sphere apps in Linux – if you dare  The Register

Announced back in September at the All Systems Go event in Berlin was systemd-homed as a new effort to improve home directory handling. Systemd-homed wants to make it easier to migrate home directories, ensure all user data is self-contained, unify user-password and encryption handling, and provide other modern takes on home/user directory functionality. That code is expected to soon land in systemd...

American-Made Librem 5 Phone Costs $1,999  PCMag

Linux security flaw could let VPN connections be hacked  ITProPortal

Purism Librem 5 USA Linux phone costs as much as a Galaxy Fold  SlashGear

With AMD last week having enabled OpenGL 4.6 for their RadeonSI OpenGL Linux driver when enabling the NIR intermediate representation support, you may be wondering how using NIR is stacking up these days compared to the default TGSI route. Here are some benchmarks on Polaris, Vega, and Navi for comparing this driver option that ultimately allows OpenGL 4.6 to be flipped on.

Red Hat has been working on a "general notification queue" that is built off the Linux kernel's pipe code and will notify the user-space of events like key/keyring changes, block layer events like disk errors, USB attach/remove events, and other notifications without user-space having to continually poll kernel interfaces. This general notification queue was proposed for Linux 5.5 but has been pushed back to at least 5.6...

A General Notification Queue Was Pushed Back From Linux 5.5 Introduction  Phoronix

A General Notification Queue Was Pushed Back From Linux 5.5 Introduction  Phoronix

Attackers using Linux Vulnerability to Hijack VPN Connections  TechDator

Linux VPN connections can be hacked  Fudzilla

Nvidia Is Preparing An Unexpected Surprise For Linux Users In 2020  Forbes

Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE) provides a means of encrypting wireless data transfers without having any secret/key. Opportunistic Wireless Encryption is advertised as Wi-Fi Certified Enhanced Open...

Hackers Can Hijack VPN Connections Using A New Linux Vulnerability  Fossbytes

Let's say you want a lightweight desktop environment, with just enough to get graphics on the screen, move some windows around, and not much else. You find traditional desktops get in your way, with their notifications and taskbars and system trays. You want to live your life primarily from a terminal, but you also want the luxury of launching graphical applications. If that sounds like you, then Pekwm may be what you've been looking for all along.

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Vagrant describes itself as "a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases production parity, and makes the 'works on my machine' excuse a relic of the past."

Vagrant works with a standard format for documenting an environment, called a Vagrantfile. According to Vagrant's website:

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