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ViewSonic has launched its latest wireless presentation display (WPD) solution. With a modern, sleek design and slim bezel, ViewSonic’s CDE20 series are powerful front-of-the-room displays in collaboration spaces, reducing accessibility problems and making it simple to share content in person or remotely. In a working environment, these Wireless Presentation Displays (WPDs) can help the team develop, interact, and connect. Underlining its distinctive attributes such as remote management, immed...

A group of researchers snuck vulnerabilities into the Linux kernel code base - violating ethics by experimenting on humans without consent.

12 May 2021, 01:05 am (Photo : Screenshot From Commons.Wikipedia.org) Linux Kernel Linux 5.13 Will Support Apple M1 System-on-Chip | Now Available for Public Testing The Apple M1 chip has recently started to gain much traction and is now fully recognized as another possible processor to choose for high-end performance. It seems like the recognition now stems past Apple as the latest version of the popular Linux kernel known as the Linux 5.13 would introduce support for Apples M1! Apple M1 on Li...

on May 7, 2021 A year has passed since the pandemic left us spending the better part of our days sheltering inside our homes. It has been a challenging time for developers, Sysadmins, and entire IT teams for that matter who began to juggle the task of monitoring and troubleshooting an influx of data within their systems and infrastructures as the world was forced online. To do their job properly, free, open-source technologies like Linux have become increasingly attractive, especially amongst O...

Linux Technical Advisory Board Issues Findings On UMNs Shady Kernel Conundrum In April, we first reported on Linux Kernel dev and maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman banned submissions from the University of Minnesota due to new concerning patches. It has also come to light that UMN has done questionable research on the Linux kernel team, and people were already wary. Now, the Linux Technical Advisory Board (TAB) has published its findings of the events and recommendations for the future. Over the r...

live-bootstrap An attempt to provide a reproducible, automatic, complete end-to-end bootstrap from a minimal number of binary seeds to a supported fully functioning operating system. Get me started! git submodule update --init --recursive Provide a kernel (vmlinuz file) as the name kernel in the root of the repository. ./rootfs.py - ensure your account has kvm privileges and qemu installed. Alternatively, run Alternatively, run ./rootfs.py but don’t run the actual virtualization and instead...

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The University of Minnesota Banned by Linux – Why Open Source is Problematic Recently, two researchers from the University of Minnesota and fellow graduates could upload intentionally buggy code and junk code into the Linux Kernel and accepted by the community. Why did the researchers do this, how did the Linux community react, and what does this demonstrate about open source software? Researchers Upload Buggy Code to Demonstrate Security Flaws Recently, a paper was released by the University...

| About | Andy Patrizio is a freelance technology writer based in Orange County, California. Hes written for a variety of publications, ranging from Toms Guide to Wired to Dr. Dobbs Journal. Venerable Linux distro Slackware comes back to life Slackware Linux, first released in 1993, is different from the more popular flavors, and that might be its appeal. Being first doesnt guarantee success in the technology industry. Remember the Netscape browser? Still, it can have its advantages, s...

Jeremy Andrews Founding Partner/CEO Jeremy founded Tag1 Consulting in 2007. He has been a contributing core Drupal developer since 2002, and helped establish Drupal as a successful CMS through the early popularity of his personal blog, KernelTrap.org. Over the years, he authored and maintained the core statistics module and throttle module, as well as the pager logic and the initial Drupal 5 installer. He continues to contribute to the Drupal caching layer, offers optimizations to the bootstrap...