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Oracle Linux Cloud Developer image kickstarts an all-in-one development environment on OCI  Oracle

The “pure” version of Kodi for Ubuntu Linux is dead  BetaNews

Since the mid-90's with the P6 micro-architecture for the Pentium Pro as the sixth-generation x86 microarchitecture, Intel has relied on the "Family 6" CPU ID. From there Intel has just revved the Model number within Family 6 for each new microarchitecture/core. For example, Meteor Lake is Family 6 Model 170 and Emerald Rapids is Family 6 Model 207. This CPU ID identification is used within the Linux kernel and other operating systems for identifying CPU generations for correct handling, etc. But Intel Linux engineers today disclosed that Family 6 is coming to an end "soon-ish"...

Intel "Family 6" CPU Era Coming To An End Soon: Code Suggests Cooper Forest & Adams Lake  Phoronix

How to enable AMD AVIC and speed up your VMs  Oracle

Linux Foundation Launches Valkey As A Redis Fork  Phoronix

Given the recent change by Redis to adopt dual source-available licensing for all their releases moving forward (Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1), the Linux Foundation announced today their fork of Redis...

Linux Version of DinodasRAT Spotted in Cyber Attacks Across Several Countries  The Hacker News

While the uutils Rust-written Coreutils effort has been chugging along, the upstream GNU Coreutils effort is showing no signs of slowing down. Out today is GNU Coreutils 9.5 with yet more feature work and bug fixes including a security fix for a chmod issue that's been around since the beginning...

Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" Yields Faster Performance With Linux 6.9  Phoronix

While Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" has been working out well under Linux already -- especially with regards to the enticing integrated Arc Graphics -- with the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel it's looking even better for the CPU performance. Here are some initial benchmarks looking at the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H Meteor Lake performance with Linux 6.8 vs. 6.9 Git.

Arm China is looking at upstreaming their "Zhouyi" NPU driver into the Linux kernel via the recently-created accelerator "accel" subsystem. The Arm China Neural Processing Unit (NPU) driver in its current form has both an open-source kernel and user-space stack...

Arm China Looking At Upstreaming Their "Zhouyi" NPU Driver Into The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Squad-based online shooter Enlisted: Reinforced now on Steam with Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Simon McVittie issued the Flatpak 1.15.7 pre-release on Wednesday with a few notable changes for this widely-used open-source app sandboxing and distribution framework...

Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps  GamingOnLinux

Analysis of DinodasRAT Linux implant  Securelist

PUNKCAKE Délicieux just added Linux support to a whole bunch of games  GamingOnLinux

Patches posted today by an Intel engineer allow for importing scanout buffers from other devices with the VirtIO DRM driver that is used in the virtualization space. The importing of scanout buffers from other devices/drivers can allow for more efficient use by avoiding excess copies...

Adding to the Linux 6.9 features is a minor post merge window change: the read-only EROFS file-system is no longer treading its FSDAX support as experimental...