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Flax Typhoon targeting Taiwan, Ransomware Emphasizing Linux-Centric Payloads  Security Boulevard

As organizations continue to move towards hybrid and multicloud, investing in cloud-ready software platforms has become a top priority to establish a more solid, flexible and adaptable foundation for growth in the cloud1. However, many organizations also face economic pressure to make the most of existing budgets while continuing to scale business and deliver results. Red Hat and Google Cloud have been collaborating for over 11 years to pave the way for customers migrating to the cloud. At the core of this relationship is Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the world’s leading enterprise Li

Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) has been part of the mainline kernel for two decades to provide a security module implementing access control security policies and is now widely-used for enhancing the security of production Linux servers and other systems. Those that haven't been involved with Linux for a long time may be unaware that SELinux originates from the US National Security Agency (NSA). But now with Linux 6.6 the NSA references are being removed...

SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA  Phoronix

The Linux 6.6 modules infrastructure is changing to better protect against the illicit behavior of NVIDIA's proprietary kernel driver...

Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver  Phoronix

XDG-Desktop-Portal as the portal front-end for Flatpaks is out with a new development release that brings accent color support to sandboxed desktop apps as well as other new features...

XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.17.1 Released With Accent Color Support  Phoronix

1. Linux 6.5 kernel arrives with exciting new features  ZDNet
2. Linus Torvalds couldn't find an excuse to hold back Linux 6.5, so here it is  The Register
3. Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver  Phoronix

GNU Coreutils 9.4 is out today as the latest version of this collection of utilities common to GNU/Linux systems and other platforms...

GNU Coreutils 9.4 Adds Experimental "--enable-systemd" Option ...  Phoronix

The big set of Linux networking subsystem updates were sent out today for the recently-started Linux 6.6 kernel merge window. There are a number of core networking improvements this cycle, support for various new wired and wireless chipsets, and improvements made to existing Ethernet and WiFi drivers...

WiFi, PWM Backlight, And Graphics On Updated Chumby Kernel  Hackaday

To help harden the Linux kernel from memory vulnerabilities and in particular heap spraying, set to be merged into the Linux 6.6 kernel is optional support for randomized slab caches for kmalloc() calls...

AlmaLinux chair confirms foundation was never approached to be a ...  ITPro

FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds  The Register

Among the exciting early pull requests to land in the new Linux 6.6 kernel cycle are some nice improvements to the IOmap code that should yield some substantive I/O benefits with this new kernel...

Google is using their NEXT'23 conference today to announce that C3A instances are debuting in private preview form for these new AArch64 VMs powered by AmpereOne processors...

Mageia 9 Released With Linux Kernel 6.4 and PulseAudio Support  It's FOSS News

The EEVDF scheduler code has been merged for the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel. EEVDF replaces the existing CFS scheduler code. There is the likelihood of some performance regressions initially though but the developers will be working to address them as they arise. Additionally, this scheduler pull also re-introduces cluster scheduling for Intel Core hybrid processors...