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1. Ubuntu 21.04 'Hirsute Hippo' Now Available for Download: https://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-21-04-hirsute-hippo-now-available-for-download-531156.shtml 2. Ubuntu 21.04: A Brief Overview of the Latest Features: https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-21-04-overview/ 3. Video Guide: How to Install Ubuntu 21.04: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5y5lgV1YpA 4. How to Install and Configure Apache on Ubuntu 21.04: https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-apache-on-ubuntu-21-04/ 5. Ubuntu 21.04 Review: A Solid Linux Distribution for Everyone: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/04/ubuntu-21-04-review
Introduction I was interested to see whether and how well R would run on the new RISC-V architecture. A while ago I read that RISC-V is now a first class architecture for Ubuntu. This got me thinking, instead of having to build R from source maybe the...
I wrote a script which can be used to get the latest AMI for different OS’s on AWS with the help of Amazon Q. I’ve only tested Ubuntu Pro so far. I should start tracking how long it takes me to…
A whole class of speculative execution attacks against CPUs were published in 2018. They seemed pretty catastrophic at the time. But the fixes were as well. Speculative execution was a way to speed up CPUs, and removing those enhancements resulted in significant performance drops. Now, people are rethinking the trade-off. Ubuntu has disabled some protections, resulting in 20% performance boost. After discussion between Intel and Canonical’s security teams, we are in agreement that Spectre no longer needs to be mitigated for the GPU at the Compute Runtime level. At this point, Spectre has been mitigated in the kernel, and a clear warning from the Compute Runtime build serves as a notification for those running modified kernels without those patches. For these reasons, we feel that Spectre mitigations in Compute Runtime no longer offer enough security impact to justify the current performance tradeoff...
I’ve shown how to use xrdp on Ubuntu in prior posts. I mentioned the “snakeoil” certificate in prior posts. Let’s look into this a bit more. When you set up xrdp it uses the snakeoil certificate to…
In the last post I showed how to use an export AWS Certificate Manager certificate with xrdp on Ubuntu: In this post I want to try to replace the Let’s Encrypt cert which is has been kind of a pain…