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Intel's Failed 64-bit Itanium CPUs Die Another Death as Linux ...  Slashdot

After A Delay, ISA Drivers Will Be Kept Around Until FreeBSD 15  Phoronix

FreeBSD 14.0-RC4 was issued today and as a last minute change they have decided to keep (non-PNP) ISA and GIANT-locked drivers around until FreeBSD 15...

Everybody Hates Linux  officemagazine.net

Last year Intel made available a packaged "Arc Graphics Driver" for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and later Ubuntu 23.04 to provide a DKMS-backported kernel driver and packaged Mesa driver to make it easier to use Arc Graphics (DG2/Alchemist) during the phase when the upstream kernel support was still stabilizing and not yet found out-of-the-box on Linux distributions at the time. This week marked another rare update for this packaged driver...

Intel Updates Its Packaged Arc Graphics Driver For Ubuntu  Phoronix

Exploited 'Looney Tunables' Linux privileged escalation bug linked ...  SC Media

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes were sent out on Thursday for the Linux 6.7 merge window...

Wayland no Linux Mint e a data de lançamento do KDE Plasma 6.0  Diolinux

CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE unite behind OpenELA to take on Red Hat Enterprise Linux  ZDNet

Intel’s failed 64-bit Itanium CPUs die another death as Linux support ends  Ars Technica

CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE unite behind OpenELA to take on Red Hat ...  ZDNet

Linux developers stumble on macOS bug that makes MacBooks 'unbootable'  Macworld

OpenELA makes Enterprise Linux source available • The Register  The Register

OpenELA flips Red Hat the bird with public release of Enterprise Linux source  The Register

Trying Out & Benchmarking Bcachefs On Linux 6.7  Phoronix

The biggest surprise this week so far with the Linux 6.7 merge window has been the landing of the Bcachefs file-system. Here is an early look at Bcachefs with Linux 6.7 and some preliminary benchmarks.

As with each kernel cycle, the networking subsystem updates for Linux 6.7 are heavy with a wide assortment of core networking infrastructure improvements, (e)BPF features continue to be tacked on, and new wired and wireless network hardware is supported...

Linux 6.7 Networking Adds New Hardware Support, A ~20% Perf Boost For Single TCP Flow  Phoronix

Kinsing Actors Exploit Linux Flaw to Breach Cloud Environments  The Hacker News