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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta is Out
The server-centric, open-source Linux distribution’s latest beta is available with plenty of updates, and it could be your new favorite desktop operating system. Here’s why. Written by Jack Wallen, Contributing Writer During my decades with the Linux operating system, I’ve often wondered why server distributions are so rarely considered for the desktop. Okay, okay… I…
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Linus Torvalds on Security, AI, Open Source and Trust
Torvalds retains his lifelong love of open source development even in a world filled with upstream security issues, overhyped AI, and other people’s hardware bugs. SEATTLE–Linux creator Linus Torvalds sat down Wednesday for a “keynote interview” at the Linux Foundation‘s Open Source Summit North America in Seattle. Torvalds was interviewed by Dirk Hohndel, an early…
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