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A quick look back at Microsoft's lawsuit against the Linux-based Lindows OS  Neowin

Following the work on enhancing the scalability of the MQ-Deadline I/O scheduler, Linux storage expert Jens Axboe has applied similar scalability improvements to the BFQ I/O scheduler...

Along with the USB/Thunderbolt changes for Linux 6.8, Greg Kroah-Hartman also submitted the char/misc changes during the back-half of the week for this new kernel version...

AWS Nitro Secure Module Driver Headlines char/misc Changes For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Merged this week were the USB and Thunderbolt driver changes for the nearly-closed Linux 6.8 merge window...

Linux 6.8 Brings Intel Lunar Lake Thunderbolt, New Qualcomm USB AltMode Mux Driver  Phoronix

Linux Foundation tapped to develop open source EV charging tech  ENGINEERING.com

New Bluetooth Vulnerability Let Hackers Takeover of iOS, Android, Linux, & MacOS Devices  CybersecurityNews

New Bluetooth Vulnerability Let Hackers Takeover of iOS, Android, Linux, & MacOS Devices  CybersecurityNews

How A Steam Bug Once Deleted All Of Someone's User Data  Hackaday

The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X Boasts Some Big AI Wins & More With Linux 6.7  Phoronix

For those on a new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series system at least, the recently released Linux 6.7 stable kernel is looking mighty good at least for the Threadripper 7980X when testing on the newly-launched System76 Thelio Major...

How to Back Up Your Linux System With rsync  How-To Geek

Hardware Should Lead Software, Right?  Hackaday

Secure Remote Linux Server Logins with SSH Key Authentication  The New Stack

Serpent OS as the latest Linux distribution project of well known developer Ikey Doherty is off to a great start for 2024. Following all their Rust infrastructure work last year, that infrastructure work has continued while also taking on new challenges for the new year...

Serpent OS To Require x86_64-v2 CPUs While Offering x86_64-v3 Packages Too  Phoronix

Running Out of Disk Space on Linux? Check Your Logs!  MUO - MakeUseOf

While the new PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs may feel fast with pushing 11~12k MB/s sequential reads and writes, a Ceph storage cluster has just broken the 1 TiB/s threshold...

Submitted and merged on Friday for the ongoing Linux 6.8 merge window were the LoongArch processor changes for this new kernel version. Most singificant for these Chinese processors is now supporting the Rust Linux kernel integration...