Tag: windows
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Win10 Users Urged To Upgrade
Cybersecurity firm ESET is urging Windows 10 users to upgrade to LINUX or Windows 11 to avoid a “security fiasco” as the 10-year-old operating system nears the end of support in October 2025. “It’s five minutes to twelve to avoid a security fiasco for 2025,” explains ESET security expert Thorsten Urbanski. “We strongly advise all…
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Gaming Distro uses Open Source NVIDIA Driver
Fedora-Based Nobara 41 Gaming Distro Switches to Open-Source NVIDIA DriverThis release also enables support for the Flatpak Beta repo, improves the HTPC/handheld experience, and updates various utilities. The Nobar Project released today Nobara 41 as the latest version of this Fedora-based Linux distribution for gamers that features unique, in-house tools and lots of performance improvements.…
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M$ ‘hijacks’ keyboard for Copilot
Copilot has gone native for Windows Insiders and commandeered a popular keyboard shortcut in the process. The move from a Progressive Web App (PWA) to a native binary – although most of it appears to still be a website, just not running as a PWA – will be welcomed. Microsoft noted that once the app…
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UEFI ‘Bootkit’ hits bootloader
Researchers at security firm ESET said Wednesday that they found the first UEFI bootkit for Linux. The discovery may portend that UEFI bootkits that have targeted Windows systems in recent years may soon target Linux too. Bootkitty—the name unknown threat actors gave to their Linux bootkit—was uploaded to VirusTotal earlier this month. Compared to many…
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Test 71 Distros On Your Web Browser
You can test all the best Linux distros right in your web browser with this site!If you’ve ever wanted to see what Linux was all about but didn’t want to go through the steps of installing it, this site offers a great option. Want to give Linux a try but don’t have the spare hardware…
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Update WSL 2’s Linux kernel
From PC World, By Thorsten Eggeling: There are many open source programs (aka code that’s accessible to the public) out there for both Linux and Windows. For programs and tools where that’s not the case, WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is the ideal solution for using Linux programs on Windows computers. This means that you…
