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As part of the GNOME Foundation funded Digital Wellbeing project, the GNOME Shell for GNOME 50 has merged options to prevent unlocking the desktop session past their bed time. The intent here is on rounding out GNOME's parental controls functionality...
A patch for the open-source exFAT file-system driver for Linux can boost the sequential read performance by about 10% in preliminary tests...
Let’s Encrypt has made IP address TLS certificates generally available, allowing secure HTTPS connections directly to IPs.
Origami Linux pairs the Cosmic desktop with a Fedora Atomic base and a deliberately sparse default install, leaving most of the customization to you. The post Origami Linux’s COSMIC Desktop on Fedora Atomic Almost Wins Me Over appeared first on FOSS Force.
This open source app delivers one-tap Arch Linux installation with development tools, file sharing, and desktop software support.
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While there are several rootkits that target Linux, they have so far not fully embraced the open-source ethos typical of Linux software. Luckily, Matheus Alves has been working to remedy this lack by creating an open-source rootkit called Singularity for Linux systems. Users who feel their computers are too secure can install the Singularity kernel module in order to allow remote code execution, disable security features, and hide files and processes from normal administrative tools. Despite its many features, Singularity is not currently known to be in use in the wild — instead, it provides security researchers with a testbed to investigate new detection and evasion techniques.
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Looking to run .NET 10 on Noble Numbat? The .NET 10.0.1 update is now available for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Latest SDK and runtime improvements – an apt command away.
COSMIC Desktop now supports rounded corners and window shadows across all apps, with new appearance options available in Settings.
It comes with your choice of Linux distribution, or Windows if you need it.
An open-source developer has worked through the last of the issues preventing the Adobe Creative Cloud installers for Windows from running on Linux via Wine. With pending patches, Adobe Photoshop 2021 and Photoshop 2025 are expected to install and run on Linux...
Linux Mint 22.3 has been released with a pair of new tools for system admins and some pretty cool new features.
VoidLink, a new Linux malware, should be of real concern because of its stealth and customization.
Queued yesterday into the platform-drivers-x86.git's "for-next" branch are the patches for the Lenovo ThinkPad ACPI driver to begin reporting damaged device detection. This code being in the "for-next" branch makes it material for the next version of the Linux kernel and initially will be able to report to the user on damaged USB-C ports...
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