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Which Distro Is Most Like Windows?
Linux can’t replace Windows, but it can have the look and feel of Windows. The familiarity can help ease your transition from Windows. In no particular order, here is a selection of distros that replicate that familiar experience. Linux is driven by a fundamentally different philosophy than Windows. So while you can pick from dozens… Read more
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Framework Laptop 13 reviewed, again
Intel’s latest chips often fall behind Ryzen, or even older Intel CPUs. Would you believe that the Framework Laptop 13 is back again? Framework’s fifth motherboard for the Laptop 13—which, in typical fashion, can be easily swapped into any existing Framework Laptop 13 of any generation—is mainly significant because it offers Intel’s Meteor Lake-based Core… Read more
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Open Model Initiative
Linux Foundation’s adoption of OMI could pave way for ethical LLMs, analysts say The Open Model Initiative aims to create what it calls community LLMs that are equal or better in quality to proprietary models, but free of restrictive licensing terms that limit their usage. The Linux Foundation’s move to take the Open Model Initiative… Read more
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Kernel Exploit ‘SLUBStick’ Discovered
New Linux Kernel Exploit Technique ‘SLUBStick’ Discovered by Researchers Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel Linux kernel exploitation technique dubbed SLUBStick that could be exploited to elevate a limited heap vulnerability to an arbitrary memory read-and-write primitive. “Initially, it exploits a timing side-channel of the allocator to perform a cross-cache attack reliably,” a… Read more
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Google Chrome to Disable uBlock Origin
Google Chrome Will Soon Disable Extensions like uBlock Origin: Here’s What You Can Do! Google Chrome is gearing up for Manifest v3 by phasing out legacy extensions. Love it or hate it, Google Chrome is the most used web browser in the world, be it desktop or mobile. For users on desktop, they have the… Read more
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Closing in on Immutable Manjaro
Manjaro Linux Starts Experimenting With An Immutable Offering Manjaro Linux could become a more reliable option with immutability at its core. What do you think? Immutable Linux distributions are a type of distro that are future-proof to quite some extent thanks to how they operate. In such systems, the core of the operating system is… Read more
