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New Golang malware plays the Linux field in quest for cryptocurrency  OODA Loop

Palo Alto Networks researchers have discovered a new strain of cryptojacking malware written in the Go programming language. The malware, dubbed Golang, ...

OpenWrt 18.06.4 released with updated Linux kernel, security fixes Curl and the Linux kernel and much more!  Packt Hub

The OpenWrt Community announced the release of OpenWrt 18.06.4, the fourth *service* release of the stable OpenWrt 18.06 series. This release comes with a ...

In my previous article, I explained how to make Python modular by using functions, creating modules, or both. Functions are invaluable to avoid repeating code you intend to use several times, and modules ensure that you can use your code across different projects. But there's another component to modularity: the class.

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How do you usually copy all or part of a text file when working on the Linux desktop? Chances are you open the file in a text editor, select all or just the text you want to copy, and paste it somewhere else.

That works. But you can do the job a bit more efficiently at the command line using the xclip utility. xclip provides a conduit between commands you run in a terminal window and the clipboard in a Linux graphical desktop environment.

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In RedHat Enterprise Linux 8, Python doesn’t come preinstalled. The main reason for this is that the RHEL 8 developers didn’t want to set a default Python version for users. Therefore as a RHEL...

IPFire Open-Source Linux Firewall Now Patched Against SACK Panic Vulnerabilities  Softpedia News

IPFire 2.23 Core Update 134 is now available for download.

LibreOffice 6.2.5 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 115 Bug Fixes  Softpedia News

Now available for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows.

Issued today was the second release candidate for OpenHMD 0.3.0, the open-source project providing a common API and different drivers for VR/AR hardware...

AMD posts Linux kernel patches for Navi 14 GPUs, Navi 10 will see only OpenGL benchmarks on launch day  Notebookcheck.net

AMD has posted Linux kernel patches for Navi 14 even though the GPU is yet to be officially announced. The company has also updated the Mesa graphics ...

The Rust language team is marking this US Independence Day by rolling out Rust 1.36...

Mmm, instant Java: Visual Studio Code 1.36 brings tasty updates – unless you run 32-bit Linux  The Register

Microsoft has brought a bunch of enhancements with version 1.36 of Visual Studio Code, its popular open-source editor. VS Code's updated Java installer will ...

For those using Samba for better Windows interoperability with SMB/CIFS/AD, the forthcoming Samba 4.11 will be a lot more scalable so it can be used within massive organizations...

Now being into Q3, we're waiting to see if Purism will be able to deliver the Librem 5 GNU/Linux smartphone this quarter after being pushed back twice from their original January ship date. They haven't released any finished design yet or the finalized specifications (they still haven't finalized on the RAM, battery, cameras, and speaker(s)), but their latest series of blog posts are showing that GNOME/Linux applications can run on their Librem 5 developer kit...

To Little Surprise, Many Linux Apps Run On The Librem 5 Linux Smartphone  Phoronix

Now being into Q3, we're waiting to see if Purism will be able to deliver the Librem 5 GNU/Linux smartphone this quarter after being pushed back twice from their ...

Microsoft once called Linux 'a cancer,' and that was a big mistake  ZDNet

How things have changed. Back in 2001, the then CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, said that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property ...

Finishing Up the Bash Mail Merge Script  Linux Journal

Finally, I'm going to finish the mail merge script, just in time for Replicant Day. Remember the mail merge script I started writing a while back? Yeah, that was ...

A big set of patches landed this morning in RADV Git for Mesa 19.2...

It looks like CentOS 8 as the "community" version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 is still a few weeks away, but good progress is being made...

While there is the open-source OpenGL driver support in RadeonSI now part of Mesa 19.2 for the Radeon RX 5700 series launching on Sunday, for the open-source Vulkan driver support due to timing you might be needing to wait a little bit...

Valve’s new code cuts AMD GPU compile times by over 45% for Linux games  PCGamesN

AMD graphics cards are getting some Linux love from what might seem like an unlikely source: Valve. Source. Valve. C'mon… Whatever. A team of software ...