Unix recap for week 14/2024
From toNewsletter sent every monday with a recap of articles, projects and tutorials from previous week.
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Linux at 4.05% worldwide marketshare! :) 1932 comments in 14 discussions
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A German state is moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice 1614 comments in 7 discussions
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German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice 970 comments in 5 discussions
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Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack? 894 comments in 4 discussions
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"The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers. @Microsoft @MicrosoftTeams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is 'high priority'." 784 comments in 3 discussions
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Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2016) 523 comments in 9 discussions
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research!rsc: Timeline of the xz open source attack 483 comments in 3 discussions
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5 reasons why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity 368 comments in 3 discussions
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German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating 331 comments in 2 discussions
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reflections on distrusting xz (Joey Hess) 330 comments in 3 discussions
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PiVPN: The Final Release 229 comments in 2 discussions
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Dragonbox Pyra: The MIA Successor to the Open Pandora ARM Linux UMPC 224 comments in 5 discussions
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autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon 216 comments in 2 discussions
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Malicious xz release version, upgrade to 5.6.1-2 now 211 comments in 2 discussions
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OpenBSD 7.5 181 comments in 4 discussions
Projects #
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notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor 472 comments in 3 discussions
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Linux on a Commodore C64 165 comments in 4 discussions
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"Lemonade" a successor to Citra Emulator released alpha builds for Linux 86 comments in 2 discussions
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libmui: Classic MacOS & GS/OS widget library for linux (and other?) 82 comments in 2 discussions
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ROCm update - Fairly new to Fedora 58 comments in 3 discussions
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Ohmyksh: A Framework for OpenBSD's Ksh 19 comments in 2 discussions
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My first serious program, Iris, a TUI utility to make theming your Linux Desktop a lot easier 9 comments in 3 discussions
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Cameractrls: camera control software with Logitech and Kiyo Pro extensions 8 comments in 1 discussion
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Update Firefox Developer edition automatically from Linux using Go 6 comments in 1 discussion
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backseat-signed: Verify a source tarball is cryptographically claimed to be the source input for a given Arch Linux or Debian package (and how to match it with VCS) 3 comments in 1 discussion
Videos #
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Latest Office 365 working on Ubuntu 22.04 with wine 9.0 40 comments in 1 discussion
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After more than 6 years of development, my settlement-building game for linux has FINALLY been released!!! 24 comments in 1 discussion
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Nvidia NVK on Baldur's Gate 3 22 comments in 1 discussion
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The largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games 16 comments in 1 discussion
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A Microsoft engineer got suspicious of a slightly slower SSH login time (0.299s to 0.807s), and ended up discovering the infamous XZ backdoor that every Linux subreddit is talking about. 16 comments in 1 discussion
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The Finals + Proton Experimental (Proton 9 Beta) 15 comments in 1 discussion
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Poor performance on RTX3070 11 comments in 1 discussion
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