The design of the new Ubuntu installer has been made public by the Canonical design team. We reported in February that Ubuntu was developing a new installer. And now, Canonical has disclosed the relevant...
Last summer, ARM Company disclosed the Straight Line Speculation (SLS) vulnerability, and they soon introduced safeguards against SLS in the GCC and LLVM compilers. Compiler-based SLS mitigation measures include adding speculative barrier sequences around...
Intel’s 11th-generation Rocket Lake desktop processor will be officially launched in the middle of this month, the Intel Linux-driven development team, known for its punctual support, has begun to prepare early code around its...
Flutter will become Canonical’s default choice for future mobile and desktop application development. It is necessary to briefly introduce Flutter to users who don’t know much about it. Flutter is an open-source UI SDK...
Last week, Linux Kernel 5.12-rc1 released after several twists and turns, but just the day after the release, Linus immediately sent a warning email to the kernel mailing list, telling everyone not to use...
Recently, Alexander Popov, a Linux security developer from Positive Technologies, discovered and fixed five security vulnerabilities in the implementation of Linux kernel virtual sockets. Attackers can use this vulnerability (CVE-2021-26708) to obtain root permissions...
The open-source Linux operating system is changing the world in its own way, but surveys show that more open-source software and the Linux kernel need to do more work on security. For example, the...
Last month, Red Hat announced that it would provide free RHEL for small production environments, and now they have expanded the free RHEL to include projects, communities, standards bodies, and other open-source non-profit software...
Recently, Microsoft engineers contributed an integrity subsystem update for Linux 5.12, which has been merged into the main branch. The Linux Integrity Measurement Architecture (IMA) subsystem introduces hooks in the inner core to support...
OpenBSD developer, Mark Kettenis recently revealed on the mailing list openbsd-arm that someone donated Apple M1 hardware to the OpenBSD team, giving them the opportunity to try to boot and load OpenBSD in native...
The official Linux Mint blog recently issued a notice to remind users to install security updates. The Linux Mint team mentioned that these security updates are very important because they will fix vulnerabilities in...
Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS has been released for a while, and the developers of Ubuntu found that they were in a tricky position to deal with the popular open-source email client: Thunderbird 68 is no...
According to the mailing list, in the upcoming Linux 5.12 merge window, the USB 4/Thunderbolt changes have been merged into the USB-next tree. These changes come from Intel, including changes to Thunderbolt and the...
Linux PC manufacturer System76 announced in March last year that it would build a customized Linux keyboard, and successively revealed the overall concept and content of the keyboard. Recently, Phoronix reported that System76 is...
More than ten years ago, Intel had high hopes for MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) as mobile Internet devices and their early launch of Menlow and Moorestown platforms. But looking back, Intel’s MID was ultimately...
Ubuntu Core 20 is the smallest containerized version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for IoT devices and embedded systems, and it is now fully available. Canonical said that this major version enhances device security through...
