Linux's Landlock Security Module Lands New Maintainers To Avoid Bit Rot
Upstreamed to the Linux kernel back in 2021 was Landlock as a new means of unprivileged application sandboxing. It aimed to be very powerful and since being upstreamed four years ago has seen some minor enhancements and fixes but has been without any formal code maintainer. Thankfully two developers have stepped up to oversee this Linux security module going foreward...
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: Java-like move could land those expecting free trial with a new billLindsay Clark (The Register)
GNU C Library 2.42 is out, bringing ISO C23, POSIX.1-2024, faster malloc tcache, and dozens of bug fixes and CVE patches.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
AMD Threadripper 9980X + 9970X Linux Benchmarks: Incredible Workstation Performance
Ahead of the Threadripper 9000 series hitting store shelves tomorrow, today the review embargo lifts on these new high-end desktop/workstation Zen 5 processors. I have been testing out the Threadripper 9970X and 9980X this month and have been extremely excited about the generational uplift and all-around performance of these new AMD Ryzen Thread…
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Linux 6.17 Drops Pktcdvd Driver, Many Block & IO_uring Improvements
Merged already for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel were the many block subsystem and IO_uring changes for enhancing I/O on Linux as we roll toward the H2'2025 Linux distribution releases...
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AMD Hardware Feedback Interface & CPUID Faulting Merged For Linux 6.17
Two notable AMD CPU feature additions were merged overnight for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel...
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Linux 6.17 Now Makes Multi-Core/SMP Support Unconditional
Earlier this year Linux kernel patches were posted for making SMP support unconditional so the kernel is always built for multi-core capabilities. With uniprocessor core environments being extremely rare especially for those that would be using an up-to-date, upstream Linux kernel, dropping non-SMP support would allow simplifying code paths within the kernel. Well, for Linux 6.1…
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AMD Zen 5 CPUs See First Microcode Updates In Linux-Firmware.Git
AMD yesterday upstreamed a batch of new CPU microcode files to linux-firmware.git as the de facto repository where component firmware/microcode is easily distributed to Linux distributions. This also marks the first time that Family 1Ah (Family 26) CPU microcode is updated there for the latest Zen 5 processors...
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Arch Linux Installer Adds Bluetooth Support & U2F Authentication
Archinstall 3.0.9 released today as the newest iteration of this text-based Arch Linux operating system installer...
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: Some users keen while others point out pile of unresolved bugs in core productTim Anderson (The Register)
Discover a step-by-step guide to remove (or hide) the home folder icon on Ubuntu Desktop, including an option to disable desktop icons.Ubuntu Shell
Last week I ran the last planned benchmarks of Intel CPU performance on Clear Linux vs.lxer.com
Linux 6.17 Improves NUMA Locality For SMP Call Rather Than Deferring To Random CPU Core
After all of these years of Linux dominating the high performance computing (HPC) space and other industries, one might think (most) all the interesting performance nuggets have been uncovered and well thought out and robust fallbacks in place across all important code paths. As we showcase almost each cycle, interesting new performance bits to b…
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Longtime Linux Kernel Engineer With 14 Years At Intel Is Now At Meta
Facebook's Meta already employs an all-star team of Linux kernel engineers and it doesn't appear that they are over in recruiting top-tier Linux kernel talent. One of Intel's senior Linux software engineers is now the latest high profile kernel developer onboard at Meta...
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Proton 10.0-2 Beta Delivers More Enhancements For Linux Gaming
Proton 10.0-2 beta was released today by Valve and CodeWeavers for furthering this Wine-derived software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux with great success...
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Discover how to print command line arguments in a Bash script on Linux. Learn multiple methods like loops, arrays, and more.Luke Reynolds (LinuxConfig)
: 5 V-tolerant GPIO opens the way to some intriguing retro-nerderyRichard Speed (The Register)
Linux 6.17 Staging Continues Cleaning The Realtek RTL8723BS Driver
The staging area of the Linux kernel, where preliminary code initially appears to mature until being promoted out, continues seeing a lot of code churn. With Linux 6.17 the staging updates were submitted and now merged with one driver in particular standing out...
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The CRC32C cyclic redundancy check code path within the Linux kernel for error detection is much, much faster with the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel when running on modern Intel and AMD AVX-512 processors.lxer.com
Xtraceroute Ported To GTK4 + Vulkan For Demonstrating The Open-Source Potential For AI
Christian Schaller, a Fedora developer and Director of Software Engineering at Red Hat, recently began exploring the potential of AI usage more from the open-source/Linux perspective. He was left impressed from his ability to easily generate a Python application for internal Red Hat use to porting the venerable Xtraceroute program to GTK4 and Vulkan...
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xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 Released With Two Years Worth Of Fixes
It had been two years since the last update to the AMDGPU X.Org DDX driver but now xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 is now available for those relying on this driver/hardware-specific driver for X.Org enabled Linux systems rather than the xf86-video-modesetting generic driver or a Wayland-based desktop...
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DietPi 9.15, a Debian-based Linux distro for SBCs, lands with Debian 13 upgrade support, Orange Pi 3 non-LTS images, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
For those shopping for a Linux friendly laptop powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series 'Strix Point' with Zen 5 cores and integrated Radeon graphics plus allowing up to 128GB of RAM, the 15.3-inch InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 was announced this morning.lxer.com
AMD Streaming SDK Updated With Linux Support - But Recommending X.Org Over Wayland
AMD's GPUOpen group today released the AMD Interactive Streaking SDK 1.1 release that now delivers Linux support alongside the existing Microsoft Windows support. The AMD Interactive Streaming SDK is designed to provide pieces for developers to build-out low-latency streaming solutions for cloud gaming, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and embedded appli…
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I assume Wayland's higher latency is part responsible for this?
(So many X11 critics live in 1991 and think it still requires everything local be transmitted over a network socket.)
OBS Studio 31.1.2 patches a bug on Linux that caused Video Capture Devices to stop working unexpectedly.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Farewell Benchmarks Of Intel's Clear Linux On AMD EPYC Shows More Performance Left To Tap
Last week I ran the last planned benchmarks of Intel CPU performance on Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu with Intel having ceased development of Clear Linux following the restructuring at the company. In today's article is a final look at how the AMD EPYC performance compares on Clear Linux relative to Ubuntu Linux and AlmaLinux. An AMD EPYC 9965 "Turin" dua…
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Discover the multiple ways to execute JavaScript code or files with basic to advanced functionality in the Python program with practical examples.Linux TLDR
Linux 6.17 Lands New file_getattr & file_setattr System Calls
Along with the better handling of multi-device file-systems such as Btrfs' native RAID capabilities and now allowing more efficient writing of zeroes to modern storage devices, the number of VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 also added some other extra goodies...
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A 10x Workaround & Less Network Egress Downtime Change Submitted For Linux 6.17
The kernel locking changes submitted today for Linux 6.17 contain a temporary change worth discussion for yielding a 10x speed-up of a particular function call and as part of that yielding less network egress downtime until a better solution is developed...
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The kernel locking changes submitted today for Linux 6.17 contain a temporary change worth discussion for yielding a 10x speed-up of a particular function call and as part of that yielding less network egress downtime until a better solution is devel…www.phoronix.com
Discover a step-by-step guide to check if your Linux system is running on Systemd or some other init system with practical examples.Ubuntu Shell
While the Broadcom V3D driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the graphics found on recent Raspberry Pi boards, currently it doesn't support run-time power managementlxer.com
TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Laptop Announced - Powered By AMD Strix Point
For those shopping for a Linux friendly laptop powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" with Zen 5 cores and integrated Radeon graphics plus allowing up to 128GB of RAM, the 15.3-inch InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 was announced this morning...
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For those shopping for a Linux friendly laptop powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series 'Strix Point' with Zen 5 cores and integrated Radeon graphics plus allowing up to 128GB of RAM, the 15.3-inch InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 was announced this morning.www.phoronix.com
Huge Speedups For CRC32C With Modern AVX-512 CPUs Merged To Linux 6.17
The CRC32C cyclic redundancy check code path within the Linux kernel for error detection is much, much faster with the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel when running on modern Intel and AMD AVX-512 processors...
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Linux 6.17 Will Allow Writing Zeroes More Efficiently To SSDs
In addition to the VFS changes merrged yesterday for allowing multi-device file-systems to better cope with losing a disk, another notable change as part of the VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 allows more efficiently zeroing out a range on modern NVMe SSDs or SCSI drives...
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