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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

The AppArmor Linux security system has picked up a few improvements and new features with the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel...

AppArmor Adds IO_uring Mediation & Some Performance ...  Phoronix

One of the great open-source achievements for 2023 was DreamWorks Animation open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer as the OpenMoonRay project. Since then DreamWorks along with other open-source stakeholders have continued advancing this open-source renderer and today marks the release of OpenMoonRay 1.4...

DreamWorks' OpenMoonRay 1.4 Released With Intel OIDn GPU ...  Phoronix

Android: Google zeigt ersten Linux-Treiber in Rust - Golem.de  Golem.de

How to Install Arch Linux on Your PC  MUO - MakeUseOf

OpenELA publica un código fuente inicial para crear derivados de (Red Hat) Enterprise Linux  MuyLinux

Západní linux v čínském stylu: Jak naroubovat čínské prostředí na ...  PCTuning.cz

Landlock was merged back in 2021 with Linux 5.13 for unprivileged application sandboxing. Landlock is focused on restricting ambient rights and is implemented as a stackable Linux security module (LSM). With Linux 6.7 the Landlock LSM is now moving beyond just file-system access controls to also introduce initial networking support...

While confidential computing is a hot area right now, there's been a limited amount of cross-vendor cooperation with AMD having their own route with Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) and Intel designing the Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) that is still available in limited form. As one improvement coming with Linux 6.7, "configfs-tsm" has been submitted for pulling as a cross-vendor solution for confidential computing attestation reports...

Linux 6.7 Adds A Cross-Vendor Solution For Confidential ...  Phoronix

Locating Leviathan Files in Linux  Linux Journal

Mint Is Shutting Down, and It's Pushing Users Toward Credit Karma  Slashdot

Following some release delays the past few weeks, it's been decided today that Fedora Linux 39 is now ready to ship next week...

Fedora Linux 39 To Be Released On Tuesday  Phoronix

Forget Windows 12, Nitrux 3.1.0 Linux distribution should be your ...  BetaNews