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xz Hack Revealed a Looming $8.8 Trillion Infrastructure Disaster
Just like our roads, bridges, electrical grid and airports will deteriorate without public investment, so will our software infrastructure without action. Imagine the security screening system used at your local airport has broken down for the second time this month. Unfortunately, nothing can be done because it is the responsibility of one guy, Bob, to…
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Torvalds On Linux Mitigating Unexpected Arithmetic Overflows/Underflows
For those interested in some insightful Linux kernel mailing list reading this weekend, there’s been a vibrant discussion on the ability for the Linux kernel to mitigate unexpected arithmetic overflows/underflows/wraparounds. Kees Cook with Google has been working on figuring out how to better deal with unexpected arithmetic overflow bugs within the Linux kernel’s C source…
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Fedora Asahi Remix on Apple Silicon
Fedora Asahi Remix 40 is another big step forward for Linux on Apple Silicon Macs. Only one kinda big thing really holds back this impressive collective effort. Asahi Linux, the project that aims to bring desktop Linux to Apple hardware with Apple silicon—the M series of chips—is out with Fedora Asahi Remix 40. More hardware…
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AppImages and How To Use Them
What are AppImages and how do you use them on Linux? This unique format for distributing Linux applications keeps it simple — mostly. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Linux had a bad reputation for not having a large enough app ecosystem. Twenty-plus years later, that complaint no longer holds water. Linux has several…
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RHEL Rethinks the Distro for Container Age
Red Hat wants to bring cloud native-based build and deployment practices to the Linux operating system itself. ust as you use containers to quickly launch applications, Red Hat wants to make it just as easy to boot up entire Linux-based operating systems. The company has made its flagship Linux distribution Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)…
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Neofetch Discontinued
Linux utility Neofetch: Development now officially discontinued, what alternatives are available?The popular command line tool Neofetch has not been actively developed for several years, and the source code has now been archived on GitHub by programmer Dylan Araps. However, there are a number of alternatives for displaying your Linux system information in the terminal. If…
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