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• Mitigations are attack surface, too
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• Timeshift: system restore tool for Linux
• Timeshift 19.08.1 does not apply file/folder exclude/include settings
• New Users and Linux Mint
• T480 Fingerprint Reader?
• Cockpit and ZFS
• Bcachefs prediction feedback
• jc: This tool serializes the output of popular gnu linux command line tools and file types to structured JSON output. This allows piping of output to tools like jq.
• Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century | Brazil’s Blog
• Regular Release Distributions Are Wrong

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• System76 To Release A "New Open-Source Computer"
• Fedora 29 Succeeds At Flicker-Free Boot Experience On Intel Hardware
• Google gets into game streaming with Project Stream and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey in Chrome
• Halloween Documents
• BeOS R5
• R1/beta1 – Release Notes | Haiku Project — It’s been just about a month less than six years since Haiku’s last release in November 2012
• Ars spends too much time trying to work in Haiku, the BeOS successor — What starts as a joke Turned into a fool's errand "I'll work in Haiku."
• The Be Book - The Application Kit
• s-tui: Terminal based CPU stress and monitoring utility — Terminal based CPU stress and monitoring utility
• Lenovo-throttling-fix — Workaround for Intel throttling issues in Linux.
• fwupd - ArchWiki — fwupd is a simple daemon allowing to update some devices firmware, including UEFI BIOS for several machines.
• Virtual Machine Manager Home — The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also manages Xen and LXC (linux containers).
• Kimchi — Kimchi is an HTML5 based management tool for KVM. It is designed to make it as easy as possible to get started with KVM and create your first guest.
• python-imaging Ubuntu Package

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• Richard M. Stallman on the Linux CoC
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• Ubuntu on Lenovo ThinkPad T480
• Lenovo ThinkPad T480 - ArchWiki
• T480s Linux throttling bug
• Workaround for Intel throttling issues in Linux.
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