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Joined Nov 2017
Picture this. A developer submits a patch to improve the kernel's performance, only to be met with the scornful gaze of Linux chieftain Linus Torvalds, who declares: "Ah, but your participle is dangling! How do you expect the kernel to thrive under such conditions?"…
Linux contributors told to sort out their grammar lest they be actively corrected
https://theregister.com/2024/10/08/torvalds_grammar_complaint/
CrowdStrike's now-infamous Falcon Sensor software has also caused crashes of Linux machines
RedHat in June warned its customers of a problem it described as "Kernel panic
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7068083
A second issue titled "System crashed at cshook_network_ops_inet6_sockraw_release+0x171a9" advised users "for assistance with troubleshooting potential issues with the falcon_lsm_serviceable kernel module provided from the CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor/Agent security software suite."
There are a number of chroot environments and containers which can be installed on Android in order to run a minimal desktop Linux distribution on a phone or tablet.
Enter UserLand a utility for running Linux command line and desktop software on mobile Android devices. UserLAnd will even run complete Linux distributions in an isolated environment on your phone.
https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd/wiki/Getting-Started-in-UserLAnd
no root required
/nosanitize
Apple has been using ARM-based Apple Silicon chips in its Macs for a few years now, and ARM Windows laptops are becoming common, but we haven't seen many Linux laptops move away from the x86 architecture. Thankfully, there's at least one option coming soon.
Tuxedo Computers, a company that already sells laptops and desktops built for Linux, confirmed that it is working on an ARM-based Linux laptop using Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Elite chipset.
An extra-robust, novice-friendly distro, with local apps, that's not ChromeOS
EndlessOS 6 is a toughened and much-simplified immutable Debian 12 with a friendly GNOME-based desktop, aimed at kids, education, and novice users.
https://www.endlessos.org/post/getting-started-with-endless-os-6
This is not a ChromeOS rival: it's a general-purpose OS, more useful offline than most, able to run on modestly specified computers and aimed at teaching novices and getting them online safely.
Proton VPN has been one of the best VPNs for years, but the #Linux experience has never quite been up to par with Proton VPN on Mac, Windows, or mobile platforms. That's now changing, as Proton is releasing a feature-complete version of its desktop app for Linux PCs.
If you want to check out the new desktop app, it's officially supported on Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora.
Fedora 39 Release Debuts With a New Immutable Variant
Linux 6.6 will probably become this year's long-term support release – status that's been made unusually contentious by the recent decision to shrink support from six to two years.
ICYMI #Linux
Long-term support for Linux kernels is about to get a lot shorter
https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/26/linux_kernel_report_2023/
After a typically calm development process, Linus Torvalds has given the world a new cut of the Linux kernel – version 6.6 to be precise.
Removes references to the NSA, adds KSMBD in-kernel server SMB networking
"So this last week has been pretty calm, and I have absolutely no excuses to delay the v6.6 release any more, so here it is," Torvalds wrote early on Monday morning,
https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2310.3/06370.html
as version 6.6 debuted as planned
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distribution, has pulled its Desktop release 23.10 after its Ukrainian translations were discovered to contain hate speech.
According to the Ubuntu project, a malicious contributor is behind anti-Semitic, homophobic, and xenophobic slurs that were injected into the distro via a "third party tool."
A new Linux vulnerability known as 'Looney Tunables' enables local attackers to gain root privileges by exploiting a buffer overflow weakness in the GNU C Library's ld.so dynamic loader.
the vulnerability has existed since its introduction in April 2021, putting a significant number of systems at risk
"The following is my 0day. This code, when executed on any website, disconnects the AtlasVPN linux client and leaks the users IP address. I am not yet aware of it being used in the wild. However, it shows that AtlasVPN does not take their users safety serious, because their software security decisions suck so massively that its hard to believe this is a bug rather than a backdoor"
AtlasVPN Linux Client 1.0.3 IP Leak Exploit
Kali Linux 2023.3, the third version of 2023, is now available for download, with nine new tools and internal optimizations.
this reads like the end of a murder mystery novel where you finally found out who the evil villain is
it was Linus all along..
Threat research
ChamelGang and ChamelDoH: A DNS-over-HTTPS implant
https://stairwell.com/news/chamelgang-and-chameldoh-a-dns-over-https-implant/
ChamelGang was first outed by Russian cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies in September 2021, detailing its attacks on fuel, energy, and aviation production industries in Russia, the U.S., India, Nepal, Taiwan, and Japan.
ChamelDoH: New Linux Backdoor Utilizing DNS-over-HTTPS Tunneling for Covert CnC
https://thehackernews.com/2023/06/chameldoh-new-linux-backdoor-utilizing.html
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Fáilte Abhaile 🏴 “a nod’s as guid as a wink tae a blind horse”
ta be aff yer heid helps
Joined Nov 2017