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Rufus options for Windows 11. Rufus supports a variety of bootable .iso files, including various Linux distributions and Windows installation .iso files, as well as raw disk image files (including compressed ones). If needed, it will install a bootloader such as SYSLINUX or GRUB onto the flash drive to render it bootable. [9]
It was merged into the Linux kernel mainline in 2014, in kernel version 3.18. [4] [5] It was improved in version 4.0, bringing improvements necessary for e.g. the overlay2 storage driver in Docker. [6] While most Live CD linux distributions used Aufs as of November 2016, Slackware used overlayfs for its live CD. [7]
Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a type of a Linux installation and the name of a book written by Gerard Beekmans, and as of May 2021, mainly maintained by Bruce Dubbs. The book gives readers instructions on how to build a Linux system from source. The book is available freely from the Linux From Scratch site. [1]
Version Original release date Last release Maintainer EOL Prominent features Notes 4.20 23 December 2018 [129]: 4.20.17 [130]: Greg Kroah-Hartman March 2019 [130]: Named Shy Crocodile [131]
In January 2013, a bug surrounding the UEFI implementation on some Samsung laptops was publicized, which caused them to be bricked after installing a Linux distribution in UEFI mode. While potential conflicts with a kernel module designed to access system features on Samsung laptops were initially blamed (also prompting kernel maintainers to ...
It featured version 3.38 of the GNOME desktop environment, and Linux kernel 5.8.15. For the first time since version 7, Fedora defaulted to a slideshow background (four png images of the Earth, from space) that changes hue according to the time of day. GNU nano became the default text editor for the command-line interface in place of vi. Fedora ...
openSUSE [5] (/ ˌ oʊ p ən ˈ s uː z ə /) is a free and open-source Linux distribution developed by the openSUSE project. It is offered in two main variations: Tumbleweed, an upstream rolling release distribution, and Leap, a stable release distribution which is sourced from SUSE Linux Enterprise.
The perf subsystem of Linux kernels from 2.6.37 up to 3.8.8 and RHEL6 kernel 2.6.32 contained a security vulnerability (CVE-2013-2094), which was exploited to gain root privileges by a local user. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The problem was due to an incorrect type being used (32-bit int instead of 64-bit) in the event_id verification code path.