Linus Rants, Cryptojacking Protection, openSUSE and Games

News updates from January 23, 2018.

Linus Torvalds slams Intel's Spectre and Meltdown patches, calling them "COMPLETE and UTTER GARBAGE". See LKML for more.

Opera released cryptojacking protection to the ad blocker in its desktop browser earlier this month, and yesterday it added that protection to its Opera Mini app for Android and iOS, making your phones safe from cryptocurrency mining as well.

openSUSE 42.2 will reach its EOL (end of life) this week, so users need to update to 42.3 asap.

Feral Interactive sent out a tweet this morning asking what new "macOS, Linux or mobile games" people like to see for 2018.

Jill Franklin is an editorial professional with more than 17 years experience in technical and scientific publishing, both print and digital. As Executive Editor of Linux Journal, she wrangles writers, develops content, manages projects, meets deadlines and makes sentences sparkle. She also was Managing Editor for TUX and Embedded Linux Journal, and the book Linux in the Workplace. Before entering the Linux and open-source realm, she was Managing Editor of several scientific and scholarly journals, including Veterinary Pathology, The Journal of Mammalogy, Toxicologic Pathology and The Journal of Scientific Exploration. In a previous life, she taught English literature and composition, managed a bookstore and tended bar. When she’s not bugging writers about deadlines or editing copy, she throws pots, gardens and reads.

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