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Two Methods to Install Slack on Debian 12 Bookworm

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Given Slack’s robust feature set and its potential to elevate team collaboration, it’s a valuable addition to any organization’s toolkit. This guide will elucidate the steps to install Slack on Debian 12 Bookworm, Debian 11 Bullseye, or Debian 10 Buster, guiding you through the process to ensure a smooth installation experience.

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Source: Linux Today – Two Methods to Install Slack on Debian 12 Bookworm

[$] Faster kernel testing with virtme-ng

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Building new kernels and booting into them is an unavoidable—and
time-consuming—part of kernel development. Andrea Righi works for
Canonical on the Ubuntu kernel team, so he does a lot of that and wanted to
find a way to speed up the task. To that end, he has been working
on virtme-ng, which is a
way to boot a new kernel in a virtual machine, and it does
so quickly. He came to the 2023
Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) in Richmond, Virginia to introduce the
project to a wider audience.

Source: LWN.net – [$] Faster kernel testing with virtme-ng

Writing useful terminal TUI on Linux with dialog and jq

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Why a Text User Interface? Many use the terminal on a daily basis. A Text User Interface (TUI) is a tool that will minimize user errors and allow you to become more productive with the terminal interface. Let me give you an example: I connect on a daily basics from my home computer into my […]

Source: LXer – Writing useful terminal TUI on Linux with dialog and jq

FreeBSD 14 Release: Best New Features

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After a long development and testing phase covering four RC cycles, FreeBSD 14 is now officially available to download and upgrade. FreeBSD 14 brings several noteworthy changes that enhance both functionality and user experience. In this article, we will take a look at some of the key updates of this release.

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Source: Linux Today – FreeBSD 14 Release: Best New Features

Lubuntu 22.04 LTS Users Can Now Install the LXQt 1.4 Desktop, Here’s How

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Lubuntu developer Simon Quigley informs us today about the availability of the latest LXQt 1.4 desktop environment for users of the long-term supported Lubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) operating system series.

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Source: Linux Today – Lubuntu 22.04 LTS Users Can Now Install the LXQt 1.4 Desktop, Here’s How

Linux eBook Reader Foliate 3.0 Upgrade: Improves UX With GTK 4 Port

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With the 3.0 release, Foliate has been completely rewritten by using modern platform libraries like GTK 4 and Adwaita. The developers have mentioned expecting a refreshed interface and superior performance than before.

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Source: Linux Today – Linux eBook Reader Foliate 3.0 Upgrade: Improves UX With GTK 4 Port

Intel's "redundant prefix issue"

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Tavis Ormandy has described a bug
in some Intel CPUs that can lead to a crash (or worse):

We believe this bug causes the frontend to miscalculate the size of
the movsb instruction, causing subsequent entries in the ROB [reorder buffer] to be
associated with incorrect addresses. When this happens, the CPU
enters a confused state that causes the instruction pointer to be
miscalculated.

The machine can eventually recover from this state, perhaps with
incorrect intermediate results, but becoming internally consistent
again. However, if we cause multiple SMT or SMP cores to enter the
state simultaneously, we can cause enough microarchitectural state
corruption to force a machine check.

Intel has released
a microcode update to address the issue.

Source: LWN.net – Intel’s “redundant prefix issue”

A GNU COBOL status update

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For the COBOL users out there, James K. Lowden has posted
an update on the current status of the GNU COBOL compiler.

When in November we turn back our clocks, then naturally do
programmers’ thoughts turn to Cobol, its promise, and future.

At last post, nine months ago, we were working our way through the
NIST CCVS/85 test suite. I am pleased to report that process is
complete. As far as NIST is concerned, gcobol is a Cobol compiler.



Source: LWN.net – A GNU COBOL status update

SUSE CTO talks about OpenELA and keeping customer trust

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Head in the sand about the end of CentOS? Have a few more years of support… for a fee. Interview SUSE is serious about Linux in the enterprise, so much so that the veteran penguin-botherer is willing to risk the ire of Red Hat with OpenELA and the offer of CentOS support for users that just can’t let go of the soon-to-be end-of-life operating system.…

Source: LXer – SUSE CTO talks about OpenELA and keeping customer trust

VMware revealed Symantec SASE integration plan before Broadcom finished buying it

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Still no word on when the deal will happen, or what’s holding it up. Two weeks past the expected close of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware and neither party has yet explained what’s holding up the deal, or detailed when it might close. But at last week’s VMware Explore event in Barcelona, VMware offered a teaser of how the two companies’ wares might integrate.…

Source: LXer – VMware revealed Symantec SASE integration plan before Broadcom finished buying it