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The latest feature enablement work happening by Intel for the Linux kernel with next-generation Diamond Rapids server processors are the adjustments to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) for readying the new CPU ISA capabilities for a virtualized world...
Rust based new commands or classic Linux commands?
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Hardware architectures; Fedora Flatpaks; Debian hardware support; sockaddr structure; NUMA nodes; Homebrew. Briefs: LightDM security; Debian Libre Live; Xubuntu postmortem; Blender 5.0; Git 2.52.0; Rust in Android; Thunderbird 145; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
I've covered installing Arch Linux on a system, but installing it on VirtualBox is a bit more tricky. Technically, there is only one very important aspect of installing on it on VirtualBox that is different. I have tested this quite a bit for installations and cloning a machine also works well. Download To start, you need the ISO file for the installation. The website is at ‘https://archlinux.org/download/’. Towards the bottom of the page is a listing that is sorted by... https://www.linux.org/threads/installing-arch-linux-in-virtualbox.57435/
Immich 2.3, a self-hosted photo and video management platform, adds multilingual OCR models and introduces maintenance mode.
A lot of power in a sleek form factor.
A patch series sent out today on the Linux kernel mailing list proposes "MEMINSPECT" as a new mechanism for helping with memory analysis...
Initially upstreamed into the Linux 6.18 kernel is Tyr as a Rust-based GPU kernel driver for Arm Mali hardware. This is in effect a Rust alternative to the Panthor DRM kernel driver for newer Arm Mali GPUs with the Command Stream Firmware (CSF). With the latest development code for Tyr, it's moved onto running the GNOME desktop and basic games like SuperTuxKart...
Project Hummingbird aims to remove the worry and streamline the deployment of secure container images for cloud-native teams. The post Red Hat Project Hummingbird For CVE-Free, Ready-to-Deploy Container Images appeared first on FOSS Force.
Xen 4.21 open-source type-1 hypervisor adds a new PDX compression algorithm, updated toolchain requirements, and improvements across x86, Arm, and RISC-V.
The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is probably the biggest legislative intervention ever made in the beleaguered field of computer security. In a unique regulatory move, the public now has access to the detailed standards under consideration. This article briefly describes ... Read more The post Early Comments Open on the Cyber Resilience Act appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
KDE Slimbook VII Linux laptop launches with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 CPU, integrated AMD Radeon 880M graphics, and up to 128 GB RAM.
The Linux kernel supports a large number of architectures. Not all of those are supported by Linux distributions, but Debian does support many of them, officially or unofficially. On October 26, Bastian Blank opened a discussion about the minimum version of these architectures that Debian should support: in particular, raising the de-facto minimum versions in the next Debian release ("forky"). Thread participants were generally in favor of keeping support for older architecture variants, but didn't reach a firm conclusion.
In mid-October, the Xubuntu download site was compromised and had directed users to a malicious zip file instead of the Torrent file that users expected. Elizabeth K. Joseph has published a postmortem of the incident, along with plans to avoid such a breach in the future: To be perfectly clear: this only impacted our website, and the torrent links provided there. If you downloaded or opened a file named "Xubuntu-Safe-Download.zip" from the Xubuntu downloads page during this period, you should assume it was malicious. We strongly recommend scanning your computer with a trusted antivirus or anti-malware solution and deleting the file immediately. Nothing on cdimages.ubuntu.com or any of the other official Ubuntu repositories was impacted, and our mirrors remained safe as long as they were also mirroring from official resources. None of the build systems, packages, or other components of Xubuntu itself were impacted.
You might say these are the heavyweights of the lightweight DE genre.
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