Linux NewsLet’s Encrypt to Cut Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days by 2028
Let’s Encrypt begins a multi-year transition to shorter certificate validity, moving from 90-day to 45-day certificates.
Linux 6.18 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel
Not exactly a big surprise but the recently released Linux 6.18 kernel is now officially promoted to being this year's Long Term Support "LTS" kernel...
Raspberry Pi 5 1GB Variant: Is It Worth $45?
Other SBCs offer more RAM at this price point. So, should you still pay $45 for a 1 GB Pi?
Microsoft ACPI Fan Extensions & Configurable Hibernation Threads For Linux 6.19
The pull requests landing the power management subsystem updates for Linux 6.19 along with the ACPI and thermal control code have landed. There is new hardware support, Microsoft ACPI Fan Extensions support, and other new features for Linux power management in this new kernel...
LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha 1 Released For Testing
The first alpha release of the LibreOffice 26.2 open-source and cross platform office suite is now available for testing ahead of its official release in February...
Mission-Center Delivers a Polished System Monitor for Linux Power Users
Mission-Center offers a single interface for tracking resource usage and managing processes and services, making routine system checks easier from the desktop. The post Mission-Center Delivers a Polished System Monitor for Linux Power Users appeared first on FOSS Force.
Swiss Data Protection Group Says US Cloud Giants Can't Meet Privacy Standards
Lack of end-to-end encryption makes international cloud services unsuitable, privatim says.
Sound Open Firmware 2.14 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake & Nova Lake Support
Sound Open Firmware is one of the projects started originally by Intel but has grown into a multi-vendor initiative for open-source audio digital signal processing (DSP) firmware and development tooling for a variety of platforms under the Linux Foundation umbrella...
Scoped User Access In Linux 6.19 To Reduce Speculation Barriers & Its Performance Hit
Merged yesterday to the Linux 6.19 Git codebase was the "core/uaccess" pull that introduces new scoped user-mode access with auto-cleanup functionality. This can reduce the number of speculation barriers encountered when needing to access user-mode memory and thereby avoiding some of the performance penalties incurred by speculation barriers...
AES-GCM Optimizations Land In Linux 6.19 - Benefiting AMD Zen 3, AVX-512 CPUs Too
Google engineer Eric Biggers who is known for his many Linux crypto subsystem performance optimizations has seen his latest pull requests land in Linux 6.19. Notable among them are some AES-GCM optimizations benefiting AMD Zen 3 processors and separately AVX-512 processors also benefit too from this latest round of optimization work...
X.Org Server's xkbcomp Updated For Four Security Issues Dating Back Years
Red Hat's Peter Hutterer announced the release today of xkbcomp 1.5, the CLI utility used for compiling X Keyboard Extension (XBD) keyboard descriptions for the X.Org Server. Driving this new xkbcomp release are fixes for four security issues...
Linus Torvalds Defends Windows' Blue Screen of Death
And he is not wrong actually.
WordPress 6.9 Introduces Block-Level Notes, Faster Editing
WordPress 6.9 “Gene” introduces block-level Notes, faster editing tools, refined dashboard navigation, and the new Abilities API.
VLC 3.0.22 Released With Qt6 Support, Dark Mode Option, and More
VLC 3.0.22 media player adds a dark palette option, Qt6 build support, Windows ARM64 builds, and the largest set of security fixes in the 3.0 series.
FreeBSD 15 now available, revamps package management and drops 32-bit hardware
Another operating system says farewell to 32-bit x86.