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Last weekend the Linux 6.8 merge window was thrown into a mess with Linus Torvalds losing Internet access and electricity during some significant winter storms battling the Portland, Oregon area. After nearly five days without being able to manage the Git merges for the Linux 6.8 merge window, a few minutes ago activity was restarted...

Linus Torvalds Gets Back To Merging New Code For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

3 Malicious PyPI Packages Hide CoinMiner on Linux Devices  Security Boulevard

The past two months I've been using the Gigabyte (Giga Computing) G242-P36 and it's been a refreshing delight for an ARM64 server platform running well with the mature Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max processors while boasting support for up to two GPUs and up to two DPUs or other PCIe adapters to make for a nice GPU/AI accelerated computing server.

After being in development since 2019, the NetBSD 10.0 stable release looks like it will happen soon. Those wanting to help in last minute testing can find NetBSD 10.0 RC3 now available...

This week the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) signed off on a large number of change proposals for the Fedora 40 release due out in April...

Linux Fu: Where's That Darn File?  Hackaday

Linux is suddenly 6% faster in one respect after a developer spent 5 minutes tinkering with it  TweakTown

For those interested in Linux on IBM Z / s390, there's a small change yielding measurable benefits to the s390 system call entry performance with the forthcoming Linux 6.8 kernel...

Linux On IBM Z "s390" To See ~11% Higher Syscall Entry Performance On Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Could immutability be a Leap too far for openSUSE users?  The Register

Last week I wrote about GTK landing their new unified GPU renderer and as part of that the Vulkan API support is set to be enabled by default. Linux distribution vendors are being encouraged moving forward to indeed ship with the GTK Vulkan support enabled, so we'll be seeing more Vulkan API use on the Linux desktop with OpenGL slowly fading away...

Linux Distributions Now Encouraged To Build GTK With Vulkan  Phoronix

Unveiling the future of open-source generative AI: Insights from the Linux Foundation's 2023 survey  ZDNet

Unveiling the future of open-source generative AI: Insights from the Linux Foundation's 2023 survey  ZDNet

Linux 6.7 introduced the "ia32_emulation=" boot option for enabling/disabling support for x86 32-bit programs and the ability to execute 32-bit system calls. This is part of the effort of some Linux distributions working to restrict x86 32-bit user-space support where not needed in order to reduce the software attack surface while still having a boot-time option for those wanting to enable 32-bit support or to otherwise disable it if your kernel build keeps it enabled...

Linux 6.8 Will Let You Know When x86 32-bit Support Is Disabled  Phoronix

THE FINALS big 1.5.0 update out with new mode - continues working on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

What Is Special About Linux Mint 21.3?  Dataconomy

Jiri Kyjovsky of Red Hat has shared news today of Log Detective, a new tool being developed that will leverage an AI model to help in analyzing build failures for RPM packages...