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For this instalment in the series, we examine the power consumption of the DreamQuest N100 Mini PC and compare it to four other machines.

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The OpenWrt project has issued an advisory regarding a vulnerability found in its Attended Sysupgrade Server that could allow compromised packages to be installed on a router by an attacker. No official OpenWrt images were affected, and the vulnerability is not known to be exploited, but users who have installed images created with an instance of this server are recommended to reinstall.

For a detailed description of how the exploit works, see this blog post.

Then, as the hash collision occurred, the server returns the overwritten build artifact to the legitimate request that requests the following packages. [...]

By abusing this, an attacker could force the user to upgrade to the malicious firmware, which could lead to the compromise of the device.

The 6.12.4 and 6.6.64 stable kernels have been released, each with a set of important fixes throughout the kernel tree, as usual.

The 6.13-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "The diffstat looks a bit unusual with 80%+ drivers, and a lot of it one-liners, but that's actually just because of a couple of automated scripts that got run after -rc1 for some cleanups. Nothing particularly interesting, but it makes for a lot of noise in the diff." One of those scripts was the EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() change (to make it use a quoted string for the namespace name) described in this article.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (redis:7, ruby, ruby:2.5, and ruby:3.1), Debian (avahi, ceph, chromium, gsl, jinja2, php7.4, renderdoc, ruby-doorkeeper, and zabbix), Fedora (chromium, python3.11, and uv), Gentoo (Asterisk, Cacti, Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge. Opera, Dnsmasq, firefox, HashiCorp Consul, icinga2, OATH Toolkit, OpenJDK, PostgreSQL, R, Salt, Spidermonkey, and thunderbird), Mageia (kubernetes), Red Hat (grafana, grafana-pcp, osbuild-composer, and postgresql), SUSE (ansible-core, firefox, glib2, java-1_8_0-ibm, kernel-firmware, nanopb, netty, python310-django-ckeditor, python310-jupyter-ydoc, radare2, skopeo, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (tinyproxy).

Arch Linux post-installation steps to set up a desktop environment, configure your system, and add essential packages for everyday use.

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Version:6.12.4 (stable) Released:2024-12-09 Source:linux-6.12.4.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.4.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.4

Version:6.6.64 (longterm) Released:2024-12-09 Source:linux-6.6.64.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.64.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.64

Version:next-20241209 (linux-next) Released:2024-12-09

GhostBSD is a user-friendly desktop operating system based on FreeBSD. Its default desktop is MATE, but a separate community edition with Xfce is available too. It also features a selection of commonly used software, a rolling-release development model, and a bootable live image with an intuitive graphical system installer.

Version:6.13-rc2 (mainline) Released:2024-12-08 Source:linux-6.13-rc2.tar.gz Patch:full (incremental)

Arch Linux is a powerful and flexible Linux distribution, loved by many for its simplicity and control. However, new users often find package management in Arch a bit challenging.

In this guide, we’ll focus solely on pacman, Arch’s default package manager, and AUR (Arch User Repository) helpers, tools that make managing AUR packages easier.

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Nextcloud has unveiled Nextcloud Talk, an open-source alternative to Microsoft Teams. It’s a privacy-compliant collaboration platform for hybrid teams that gives companies complete control over their data.

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AUSTRUMI (Austrum Latvijas Linukss) is a bootable live Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux. It requires limited system resources and can run on any Intel-compatible system with a CD-ROM installed. The entire operating system and all of the applications run from RAM, making AUSTRUMI a fast system and allowing the boot medium to be removed after the operating system starts.

RebeccaBlackOS is a Debian-based live distribution which can be used to run Wayland desktop sessions. RebeccaBlackOS can run a number of popular open source desktop environments on top of a Wayland graphical session. The distribution was (and remains) one of the only Linux distributions to run a Wayland session from live media. The distribution is available in 32-bit and 64-bit builds for the x86 architecture.

Building modern apps can seem overwhelming with the many tools and technologies available. However, having the right tools can make a huge difference in the development process, helping developers work faster and more efficiently.

Whether you’re making a mobile application, a web application, or a desktop application, there are essential tools that can improve your workflow. This article will cover some must-have developer tools for building modern apps and explain how they can help you.

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This article focuses on useful PDF tools which can help you create PDFs as well as small utilities/libraries that help you work with PDF.

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Zenith is software that’s similar to top but displays histograms, and a wealth of other information such as CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage.

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Explore a step-by-step guide for installing, configuring, and running Pydio Cells on Ubuntu to manage and collaborate on your document files.

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Odoo is an open-source Python and Javascript software used to manage business processes. It includes various features such as customer relationship management, e-commerce, accounting, billing, manufacturing, project management, etc. Odoo uses the PostgreSQL database management system to store its data. This blog post will cover all the requirements for the latest Odoo 18 version, such as Python’s latest version, PostgreSQL service, Python requirements, and Odoo service configuration. Learning how to install Odoo 18 on Ubuntu 24.04 is a straightforward process that may take up to 15 minutes. Let’s get started!

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