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RHEL’s Car OS Achieves Industry Certification
In 2022, Red Hat announced plans to extend RHEL to the automotive industry through Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System (providing automakers with an open and functionally-safe platform). And this week Red Hat announced it achieved ISO 26262 ASIL-B certification from exida for the Linux math library (libm.so glibc) — a fundamental component of that Red…
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New Security Focused Mailing List
The Linux Foundation’s “Open Source Security Foundation” (or OpenSSF) is a cross-industry forum to “secure the development, maintenance, and consumption of the open source software”. And now the OpenSSF has launched a new mailing list “which aims to monitor the threat landscape of open-source project vulnerabilities,” reports I Programmer, “in order to provide real time…
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Reset Forgotten Root Password on Ubuntu
You had set up root password in Ubuntu but cannot remember it now? Here’s how to reset forgotten root password in Ubuntu and hopefully in other Debian-based distros. It’s only human to forget passwords, especially if you are not using it frequently. It happens with Ubuntu, Linux, or any other operating system you use. If…
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SysAdmins Rejoice with OpenSUSE 15.6
openSUSE Leap 15.6 is here 🥳!!!! A minor update after openSUSE 15.5, but with a couple of significant improvements. With this release, openSUSE brings in some goodness of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 6. And, they also plan to have an update for Service Pack 7 later this year before Leap 16 arrives in…
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Various BSDs vs Linux Compared (on AMD)
This is an article that pits FreeBSD 14.1 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.4 vs. NetBSD 10 vs. Linux Benchmarks. After last week looking at how FreeBSD 14.1 has improved performance over FreeBSD 14.0, here is an expanded cross-OS comparison now looking at how the new FreeBSD 14.1 stable release compares to the recently released NetBSD 10.0, the…
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Best Laptops for Linux (ZDNet)
The best Linux laptops are user-friendly with high-end components and great battery life. We tested models from Lenovo, Dell, and more to find the top options. Years ago, we were lucky to have one or two Linux laptop options. Now, you’d be surprised at how many laptops are sold with Linux installed, making it a…
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