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  • Linux on Car Safety & Driver Assistance

    Linux on Car Safety & Driver Assistance

    Linux can finally run your car’s safety systems and driver-assistance features.Increasingly, our cars will be controlled by a small number of powerful computers. There’s a new Linux distro on the scene today, and it’s a bit specialized. Its development was led by the automotive electronics supplier Elektrobit, and it’s the first open source OS that… Read more

  • How The Media Treats Linux in 2024

    How The Media Treats Linux in 2024

    The “Reluctant Anarchist” creates insightful videos about Linux and his experiences with our beloved Operating System. This week’s video explores the often contentious relationship between mainstream media coverage and Linux, particularly focusing on how some writers approach reviewing products like the Steam Deck. It highlights a trend of negative language and bias, with some reviewers… Read more

  • Release of Fedora Linux 40

    Release of Fedora Linux 40

    Oh, wow. This feels like a big number! I’m proud to announce the 40th release of Fedora Linux, a community-built and community-maintained operating system that belongs to all of us. I’m also happy to note that we’re back on track with an on-time release. Thank you to all Fedora contributors who made that possible, and… Read more

  • Why Microsoft is a U.S. ‘National Security Threat’

    Why Microsoft is a U.S. ‘National Security Threat’

    This week the Register spoke to former senior White House cyber policy director A.J. Grotto — who complained it was hard to get even slight concessions from Microsoft: “If you go back to the SolarWinds episode from a few years ago … [Microsoft] was essentially up-selling logging capability to federal agencies” instead of making it… Read more

  • Send Text Msg by ICMP Tunnel x SCAPY

    Send Text Msg by ICMP Tunnel x SCAPY

    Written by Levko Kravchuk, VanLUG Member DISCLAIMER: Please use this article for study purposes only. I provide this information for Administrators who want to be more effective in their job. Folks, I want to share with you an amazing technology — ICMP Tunnels. It was developed to bypass firewalls, DLP systems, and the main reason… Read more

  • Firefox Nightly is Now Available for ARM64

    Firefox Nightly is Now Available for ARM64

    Using Linux on a 64-bit ARM device and longing to use Firefox Nightly builds? Well, you’re in luck — Mozilla has finally made ARM64 Linux builds available to download. As I understand it most Linux distributions that support ARM64/AArch64 offer a native ARM version of Firefox in their repos (in Ubuntu that’s via snap) though… Read more