In recent years, researchers have discovered a multitude of vulnerabilities in x86, POWER and even ARM processors. In most cases, these problems have been resolved, with the detriment of performance, through patches at the level of firmware or software that have mitigated or canceled possible damages. For example, Meltdown, a security vulnerability that affects a wide range of systems, including[…]
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KDE Plasma 5.17.3 – It’s another KDE Plasma update!
The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 5.17.3. This is the third maintenance update added to the famous desktop environment and it brings bugs and issues fixes, also newly updated translations. Plasma 5.17 was released in October 2019 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds new translations and bugfixes, including: An improved[…]
Read moreThe macOS Catalina KVM release is now available for Linux users
You can now develop iPhone apps on your cozy and comfortable Linux machine. Using KVM, you can have a fully working macOS Catalina virtual machine and with GPU (and other) passthrough you can also have decent performance. Until today to use macOS, you had to use an original Apple hardware (but, so you should spend a lot of money! 💰[…]
Read moreHow to move ‘snap’ folder away from home location in Linux
In the past, I had a lot of troubles with the snap ecosystem and I suggested to not use it for the production systems. All my first attempts to use snap failed, all my PCs became unresponsive, all the applications in snap version proved to be much slower than others. But I want to give snap another chance, so I’m[…]
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