The non-profit Linux Foundation announced the creation of the Open Metaverse Foundation (OMF), a subsidiary organization that will develop the base for its own metaverse. The challenge will be to coordinate efforts across industries that develop open source software and standards for the metaverse. According to OMF Executive Director Royal...
Juno Computers has been selling Linux laptops and desktops for several years. Now the first tablet on this OS has appeared on the list. We are talking about the Juno Tablet model. At the same time, this tablet does not fully work with the supplied distributions, although it costs a...
According to The Register, Linux creator Linus Torvalds said that the development of the operating system kernel was slowed down due to a breakdown in his computer. Speaking to users on Sunday, Torvalds acknowledged that the process is progressing, but very slowly, as he was forced to move to a...
The Linux kernel 6.0 was recently released and version 6.1 is scheduled to be released soon. However, many users have not switched to it yet. And, as it turned out, one of the old kernels has a problem that affects the video subsystem. It can physically damage the display. This...
Intel has published a series of fixes for Linux aimed at improving the performance of modern Alder Lake processors and those CPUs that will follow them. Alder Lake is known to have a mix of large and small cores, and the performance of such CPUs is highly dependent on optimization....
According to sources, a vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux operating system, and a very serious one. To be more precise, this is the most dangerous vulnerability in this OS discovered in recent years. The vulnerability was named Dirty Pipe (it received the code CVE-2022-0847). It allows attackers to...
Intel Alder Lake processors, as we know, have a heterogeneous architecture, which increases the dependence of the CPU on OS and software optimization. This optimization is native to Windows 11 and is now available to Linux. Tests have shown that the fresh Linux kernel provides superiority over Windows 11 in...
A group of researchers has discovered a never-before-seen backdoor malware that affects systems running Windows, macOS, or Linux, and has failed to be detected by virtually all malware scanning engines. Malware is usually the constant concern of practically all users who use an electronic device. Are able to steal our...
The absence of viruses in Linux is a myth. Given the low presence of this operating system on computers, in relation to other alternatives that are widely used, this type of attack tends to focus on the most widely used software. That is why these cases are less common and,...
Pine64, the company that manufactures one of the alternatives to the Raspberry Pi single-board computer models, in addition to also bringing to the market certain models of smart mobile phones under Linux operating system, now increases its product portfolio with the new PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition, your new model of...
It looks like the Linux operating system may actually become a great choice for gamers over time. Canonical is looking for an employee for the position of product manager for board games at Ubuntu, according to the source. In addition, the job description clearly indicates the company’s plans: Make Ubuntu...
Linux users who own AMD APU-based computers are suddenly given a New Year’s gift in the form of a significant boost in the performance of the integrated graphics core of such processors. The Linux 5.16 kernel is said to provide tangible performance gains for at least the last two generations...
Linux gaming is becoming more and more complete. Nvidia has finally added its DLSS supersampling technology to Proton 6.3-8. For the first time, we learned about such intentions of the company back in the summer. As a reminder, Proton is an open source tool designed for use by the Steam...
The packages were uploaded to the repository on October 15, but were immediately identified by researchers. Sonatype specialists discovered Cryptocurrency mining software in three JavaScript libraries uploaded to the official NPM repository. Malicious packages called okhsa, klow and klown were disguised as User-Agent header parsers and uploaded by the same...
The Pine64 company presented the pinnacle of its smartphone business – the Pine Phone Pro model, which is called the flagship model. However, if you look at the characteristics, then such a device can hardly be called a flagship, especially when compared with the top models on Android. However, in...
The Windows 11 Linux Subsystem (WSL) can be downloaded and installed from the Microsoft Store by Microsoft. Microsoft has turned Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL, compatibility layer for running Linux applications on Windows) into an application that can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store on Windows 11. A preview version...