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Manjaro Linux Graduates From A Hobby Project To A Professional Project - It's FOSS

Google News - Mon, 09/09/2019 - 20:32

Manjaro Linux Graduates From A Hobby Project To A Professional Project It's FOSS

Manjaro is taking things professionally. A company has been formed to work as its legal entity and handle the commercial agreements and professional ...

Intel To Try Flipping IOMMU On By Default For Linux Graphics

Phoronix - Mon, 09/09/2019 - 19:33

Longtime Intel open-source graphics driver developer Chris Wilson today sent out a set of patches attempting to enable IOMMU coverage for graphics by default...

Navi 14 Will Work Its Way Into A Workstation Graphics Card

Phoronix - Mon, 09/09/2019 - 19:04

When it comes to Navi graphics processors in workstation cards, there's now confirmation of at least one coming with the "Navi 14" GPU...

Linux Kernel atalk_proc_exit Function Use-After-Free Vulnerability [CVE-2019-15292] - SystemTek

Google News - Mon, 09/09/2019 - 18:55

Linux Kernel atalk_proc_exit Function Use-After-Free Vulnerability [CVE-2019-15292] SystemTek

CVE number – CVE-2019-15292. A vulnerability in the Linux Kernel could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial ...

Outreachy Applications Open For The Winter 2019 Round

Phoronix - Mon, 09/09/2019 - 18:50

Outreachy's summer round recently wrapped up while their winter round for participants in the southern hemisphere is now open...

GCC 10 Lands The eBPF Port For Targeting The Linux In-Kernel VM

Phoronix - Mon, 09/09/2019 - 18:41

Up to now the LLVM compiler stack has been used when wanting to target the Linux's eBPF in-kernel virtual machine while now the port for the GNU Compiler Collection has been deemed in good enough shape and merged...

Mumble 1.3 VoIP/Chat Program Released With ~3,000 Changes

Phoronix - Mon, 09/09/2019 - 18:28

For fans of the Mumble open-source VoIP communication program that is popular with gamers, Mumble 1.3 was released as their first major release in years...

5 Reasons Why Charging Money For Linux Distributions Makes Sense - Analytics India Magazine

Google News - Mon, 09/09/2019 - 17:05

5 Reasons Why Charging Money For Linux Distributions Makes Sense Analytics India Magazine

Even though Linux is synonymous with open-source and free, the concept is slowly moving out of the picture.Charging money for Linux distro makes sense now.

Getting started with the Linux tac command

opensource.com - Mon, 09/09/2019 - 15:02

The tac command is essentially the cat command, but its purpose is to concatenate files in reverse. Like cat, it has a convenient fallback mode to print to standard output (STDOUT) if no output file is provided, making it one of those commands that are more often used as a lazy pager—like less and more—than the function it is named for.

4 to-do list managers for the Linux desktop

opensource.com - Mon, 09/09/2019 - 15:02

Ah, the humble to-do list. When used badly, it becomes a source of stress and a trigger for procrastination. When used well, the to-do list can help you focus on what you need to do, when you need to do it.

There are a few ways to keep a to-do list. You can use pen and paper. You can run a command-line to-do list manager. Or, you can use a to-do list on your desktop.