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Arch Linux’s Text-Mode Installer Gets Experimental LVM Support
Archinstall 2.8.1 is now available as the latest update to Arch Linux’s menu-based installer. The Archinstall 2.8.1 text-mode installer for the popular Arch Linux distribution was released today as a hefty update introducing initial LVM support and many other improvements. Archinstall 2.8.1 is the first release of Arch Linux’s installer to offer LVM (Logical Volume…
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LF forms trust for advancing decentralisation
The Linux Foundation has announced plans to establish the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LF Decentralized Trust), a new umbrella organisation aimed at supporting the advancement of decentralised technologies. Building on the foundation’s existing blockchain and digital identity projects, LF Decentralized Trust will encompass the Hyperledger project portfolio and host new open source software, communities, standards,…
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Open Source Libre Chat – all LLMs for all
Open Source LibreChat Offers More Than Just Extra LLMs!LibreChat levels the field for generative AI, allowing users to pick their favorite AI providers, services, and integrations. With an interface inspired by ChatGPT, LibreChat offers an “enhanced” ChatGPT clone, an open source alternative with AI model selection as a main feature — while also providing additional…
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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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