Category Archives: Linux

Linux Mint 21.1

Posted on 2022-12-26 by guenni

[German]Brief addendum from last week: On December 21, 2022, the team released the official upgrade of Linux Mint 21 to version 21.1. Blog reader Wolle had already informed me by mail that the version was available for the Cinnamon, MATE … Continue reading →

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Multiple vulnerabilities [CVE-2022-38023, CVE-2022-37966, CVE-2022-37967, CVE-2022-45141] in Samba

Posted on 2022-12-17 by guenni

[German]There are serious vulnerabilities in older versions of the Samba software, which provides access from Linux to Windows file and print services. The developers have issued a security advisory as of December 15, 2022, and released corrected versions of Samba … Continue reading →

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Chrome 107.0.5304.110/107 security updates

Posted on 2022-11-09 by guenni

[German]Google has released a slew of security updates for Google Chrome in the 107 branch in the stable channel for Mac, Linux and Windows as well as for Android (and iOS) on November 8, 2022. Ten vulnerabilities are closed in … Continue reading →

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Chrome 107.0.5304.87/ 107.0.5304.88/107.0.5304.91 security updates

Posted on 2022-10-28 by guenni

[German]Google has released security updates for Google Chrome in the 107 branch in the stable and extended channel for Mac, Linux and Windows as well as for Android on October 27, 2022. It does so in an update that closes … Continue reading →

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Chrome 107.0.5304.62/63/68 released

Posted on 2022-10-26 by guenni

[German]Google has released the update of Google Chrome to the 107 branch in the stable channel for Mac (107.0.5304.62), Linux (107.0.5304.68) and Windows (107.0.5304.62/63) on October 25, 2022. It is a new development branch, but it also fixes bugs and … Continue reading →

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Chrome 106.0.5249.119

Posted on 2022-10-12 by guenni

[German]Google has released the Google Chrome 106.0.5249.119 update in the stable channel for Mac , Linux and Windows on October 11, 2022. It is a bug fix update that addresses vulnerabilities. Advertising

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Chrome 106.0.5249.61/62 released

Posted on 2022-09-29 by guenni

[German]Google has released the update of Google Chrome 106.0.5249.61 for Mac/Linux and Chrome 106.0.5249.61/62 for Windows on September 28, 2022. It is a new development branch, with the update fixing 20 vulnerabilities. Advertising

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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS beats Windows 11 on AMD's Ryzen 5800X3D processor

Posted on 2022-09-20 by guenni

[German]Amazing results recently revealed by a performance comparison between Microsoft's Windows 11 and an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux on an 8-core Ryzen 5800X3D processor from AMD. The benchmarks were run by Phoronix with various workloads, using fresh installations of the … Continue reading →

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Chrome & Edge may send personal data (including passwords) to Google and Microsoft respectively

Posted on 2022-09-19 by guenni

[German]Unpleasant discovery that a security researcher has made public the days. The Google Chrome browser, and also the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser, may transmit in some cases personal data from forms to Google and Microsoft (in the case of Edge). … Continue reading →

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VMware ESXi: Retbleed fixes cause 70% performance loss in Linux VMs running kernel 5.19

Posted on 2022-09-14 by guenni

In performance regression testing, VMware testers found a severe performance drop for Linux guests when running kernel 5.19 in a VMware ESXi virtual machine with the Retbleed fixes installed. The degradation was up to 70% for computing, up to 30% … Continue reading →

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