Cinnamon 5.2 Desktop Environment Released, This Is What’s New

Cinnamon 5.2 is packed with new features, like an improved Menu applet that offers better keyboard navigation for RTL (Right-to-Left) languages, symbolic icons for all apps, the ability to hide the app buttons by default and when the menu is closed, support for displaying completion results only when the file system path entry is enabled, […]

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ClusterFuzzLite: Google Introduces Fuzzing Testing System

Google presented the ClusterFuzzLite project, which allows users to organize fuzzing testing of code for early detection of potential vulnerabilities. Currently, ClusterFuzzLite can be used to automate fuzzing testing of pull requests in GitHub Actions, Google Cloud Build, and Prow, but support for other CI systems is expected in the future. The project is based […]

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CentOS Alternative Rocky Linux 8.5 Is Out Now with Secure Boot Support

Derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 as a CentOS Linux alternative, Rocky Linux 8.5 is here to introduce new features like Secure Boot support. This is the first release of Rocky Linux to include the official Rocky Linux signed Secure Boot shim, but users need to validate it to ensure that it’s properly activated. […]

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Just Perfection GNOME Shell Extension v16 Released

The popular GNOME Shell extension Just Perfection celebrates one year of success with a brand new version, GNOME Shell Extension v16. With Just Perfection, you can change the visibility of almost all components of GNOME Shell, make behavior tweaks, and…

How to Setup Anonymous FTP in Rocky Linux 8.4

FTP servers file transfers between clients and servers. Typically, ftp servers offer two types of access levels: Authenticated and Anonymous. The first method (Authenticated) requires a valid username and password in order to access the files and directories. The second method ( Anonymous) being anonymous, we can download files without restrictions. You can download files […]

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 14th, 2021

This has been yet another great week with cool Linux news, starting with Valve’s SteamOS 3.0, which will be available for download after Steam Deck’s launch in February 2022, and continuing with the latest Raspberry Pi OS release based on Debian Bullseye. On top of that, I take a look at an unofficial LineageOS build […]

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Ubuntu Brings Thunderbird 91 to Older Releases to Fix Security Flaw

Thunderbird 91 is being back-ported to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. A security vulnerability affecting the Thunderbird 78.x series both builds offer is being actively exploited in the wild. But as upstream support for Thunderbird 78.x has end…

Android Mirror Tool ‘Scrcpy’ Gains New Features, New Icon

Scrcpy is a super-useful Android mirroring tool for desktop PCs. The tool gains physical keyboards simulation and a high-res app icon in the latest update.
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openSUSE is Looking for Candidates to Run for Its Board

Two seats on the board at openSUSE are up for grabs. Candidates will be announced on November 22, and voting begins on December 13.
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Google Removes Restrictions on Students Only from Summer of Code

Google has announced the annual Google Summer of Code 2022 (GSoC) event aimed at encouraging newbies to work on open source projects. The event is being held for the seventeenth time, but it differs from previous programs in the removal of restrictions on non-students. From now on, any adult over 18 can become a GSoC […]

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SparkyLinux 6.1 Released with Updated Packages and Improvements

The SparkyLinux team has announced the release of SparkyLinux 6.1, the latest stable update in the project’s 6.x series. Let’s see what’s new.
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CutiePi Raspberry Pi Based Linux Tablet is Already Sold Out

The CutiePi tablet is based on the diminutive Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. At the heart of CutiePi is a custom-designed circuit board. It’s an open-source hardware solution and offers all the components necessary to make your project portable. Learn more about the already sold-out tablet and how you can get your hands on one […]

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CentOS Project Moves to Development Using GitLab

The CentOS Project announced the launch of a collaborative development service based on the GitLab platform. The decision to use GitLab as the primary hosting platform for CentOS and Fedora projects was made last year. It is noteworthy that the infrastructure was raised not on its own servers, but on the basis of the gitlab.com service. Read on to learn […]

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Last of Original SCO v IBM Linux Lawsuit Settled

Well, that took long enough! But, what’s this? The lawsuit still lingers on in one last case from the company that bought SCO’s Unix operating systems.
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New Multipass Release to Run Ubuntu VMs on Apple M1 Macs

The company behind Ubuntu has updated Multipass to version 1.8, a release that introduces support for setting up and running Ubuntu virtual machines on Apple M1 MacBook devices with minimal effort. In fact, Multipass 1.8 promises to offer Apple M1 MacBook developers interesting apps for the Linux/Ubuntu desktop. This will be the fastest way to […]

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Code Club World: A Way for Kids to Learn Code at Home

The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s latest project, Code Club World, turns learning code into fun games and challenges for kids. Learn about the project here.
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Dependency Combobulator: Open Source Against Dependency Confusion Attacks

Apiiro released Dependency Combobulator, a modular and extensible open-source toolkit to detect and prevent dependency confusion attacks. The toolkit allows organizations to safeguard against this newly uncovered type of risk, which has been on the rise this year as a key vector in supply chain attacks targeting dependencies within software packages. Dependency confusion compromises the […]

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Kubernetes Community Elects Four New Members to Steering Committee

Two new members and two incumbents have been elected to join three continuing members of the Kubernetes Steering Committee. Learn more about the future of Kubernetes leadership here.
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KDE Plasma 5.23.3 Further Improves the Wayland Session

Coming two weeks after KDE Plasma 5.23.2, the KDE Plasma 5.23.3 point release is here to further improve the Plasma Wayland session by making the Mozilla Firefox web browser more responsive to files that are being dragged and dropped. It also fixes the panel’s auto-hide animation, addresses a Plasma crash that occurred when turning an […]

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BusyBox Security Analysis Reveals 14 Minor Vulnerabilities

Researchers at Claroty and JFrog have published a security audit of BusyBox, a widely used embedded device that offers a set of standard UNIX utilities in a single executable file. During the check, 14 vulnerabilities were identified, which have already been eliminated in the August release of BusyBox 1.34. Learn more about the discovered vulnerabilities […]

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