Coordinated Disclosure: 1-Click RCE on GNOME (CVE-2023-43641) (github.blog)
Today, in coordination with Ilya Lipnitskiy (the maintainer of libcue) and the distros mailing list, the GitHub Security Lab is disclosing CVE-2023-43641, a memory corruption vulnerability in libcue. We have also sent a text-only version of this blog post to the oss-security list....
How to disable S0ix and enable S3 Sleep on Ubuntu 22.04 on Dell Latitude 3410
Hello. I just want to ask, I already tried search many resources, but I still can’t find a way to reduce battery drain while sleep on Ubuntu on Dell laptop....
EndeavourOS Moving to KDE Plasma by Default (endeavouros.com)
EndeavourOS is moving to KDE Plasma for its live environment and offline installer from Xfce. You’ll hear no complaints from me!
Linux TVs (thomsonhome.in)
Which Linux distro is running in Thomson TVs. What are the capabilties.
Microsoft published a guide on how to install Linux. (programming.dev)
SpiralLinux - It's really Debian underneath the hood! (lemmy.ca)
I recently ran across SpiralLinux - GitHub page, and found the concept of how the maintainer is packaging it very cool....
Why is Debian the way it is? (blog.liw.fi)
Debian is a large, complex operating system, and a huge open source project. It’s thirty years old now. To many people, some of its aspects are weird. Most such things have a good reason, but it can be hard to find out what it is. This is an attempt to answer some such questions, without being a detailed history of the...
Linux holds a market share of approximately 14% in India. (programming.dev)
I’m not sure how accurate StatCounter is, given that most Linux users use adblockers. However, according to it, Linux has almost a 14% desktop share in India.
TIL You can use `systemd-analyze plot > plot.svg` to plot the service startup time to find bottlenecks (lemmy.world)
Apparently the reason my computer has been taking 2 minutes to boot was a faulty network mount
Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode
I get that it’s open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting
Linux market share on Steam over time (Sep 2023 - 1.63%) (lemmy.ml)
Source: www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/
Update handling after rebasing Fedora Silverblue
So I am trying out fedora silverblue and recently rebased it to uBlue to get access to hardware decoding for non-free codecs and for some QoL improvements. Before rebasing, I used to get both system updates(update to image that silverblue is based on) and flatpak updates through the gui package manager(gnome-software in this...
A visual guide to ACL Access-Control Lists (lemmy.g97.top)
Migrated from Windows to Linux. Decided to share list of answers/statements I was looking for before did it (and could not find).
Finally migrated from Windows to Linux. For anyone wondering, what is the state of Linux as your primary OS for home PC\laptop in 2023....
The Linux Foundation Launches New Event: AI.dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit (www.prnewswire.com)
cross-posted from !aistuff
You can use emojis as credentials (feddit.de)
You can totally use emojis as passwords. You can probably even make this a policy at your company....
Peppermint Introduces PepMini: Minimal OS with Debian (debugpointnews.com)
From DebugPoint
Linux Mint Debian Edition officially released (blog.linuxmint.com)
LMDE 6 has been officially released. The big deal about this is that it’s based on the recently released Debian 12 and also that being based on Debian LMDE is 100% community based....
Free software pioneer Richard Stallman is battling cancer (www.theregister.com)
The Register www.theregister.com/…/richard_stallman_cancer/ #GNU #Linux
Richard Stallman has cancer
From his website stallman.org:...
Dotfiles matter! Please stop dumping files in users’ $HOME directories. (dotfiles-matter.click)
Raspberry Pi - Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5 (www.raspberrypi.com)
modern unix (github.com)
I accidently rebooted during pacman update and now my system dosen't show option to boot into endeavour os. Systemd just shows option to boot into firmware interface please help!
I’ve lost everything and I don’t know how to get it back. How can I repair my system all I have is a usb with slax linux. I am freaking out because I had a lot of projects on their that I hadn’t pushed to github as well as my configs and rice. Is there any way to repair my system? Can I get a shell from systemd?