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Easy-to-exploit rooting flaw puts Linux computers at risk

Network World

The maintainers of Linux distributions are rushing to patch a privilege escalation vulnerability that's already being exploited in the wild and poses a serious risk to servers, desktops and other devices that run the OS. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-5195, has existed in the Linux kernel for the past nine years.

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The Linux Migration: April 2017 Progress Report

Scott Lowe

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration to Linux (from OS X) as my primary laptop OS. Let me start by saying that I am actively using a Linux-powered laptop as my primary laptop right now, and I have been doing so since early February. Linux Distribution. I’m using Enpass on my OS X, Linux, and iOS devices.

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The Linux Migration: December 2018 Progress Report

Scott Lowe

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration from macOS to Linux as my primary laptop OS. In this post, I’d like to recap where things stand as of December 2018, after 8 months of full-time use of Linux as my primary laptop OS. Linux Distribution. So what’s working well with this configuration?

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Best Laptops Under $200 in 2016-2017

Galido

Today you can get a $200 laptop and get useful functions and hardware like an HD display, Windows 10, HDMI port, a decent hard drive, and sometimes even touch screen. Here are some of our favorite full Windows 10 machines (compatible with Linux) for 2016-2017. HP Stream 11 (2016). Asus E402SA.

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The hard truth about lifecycle management

CIO Business Intelligence

To contrast it with the usual lifecycle management, imagine for the sake of argument that some of your applications run on top of EnGarde Secure Linux. That EnGarde runs on an end-of-life server doesn’t mean it will install on the new hardware you have no choice about buying when your end-of-life server becomes an expired server.

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Rescheduling the Playdate: Portland startup sets 2021 release for unique handheld game device

GeekWire

Panic has used the time from its unplanned delays to continue to tweak both the Playdate’s hardware and its software, including improvements to the Playdate’s Software Development Kit (SDK) and an emulation program for the Playdate that runs on Windows.

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Servers/Hardware. Jeff Geerling has a great article on why he returned his 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar ; it’s definitely worth a read, in my opinion. (I’m

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