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Systemd 255-rc1 is out this morning and it's packed with even more features for this dominant Linux init system and a growing list of other system utilities. Systemd 255 even is introducing systemd-bsod as a "Blue Screen of Death" for displaying important error messages during boot failure, systemd-vmspawn as a new tool to spawn virtual machines, and other new features...

systemd 255-rc1 Brings "Blue Screen of Death" Support & New Tool ...  Phoronix

After more than two years of work, a patch series was posted this weekend for a "fully functional" ffmpeg multi-threaded command-line application with multi-threaded transcoding pipelines being wired up...

FFmpeg Patches Allow For "Fully Functional" Multi-Threaded CLI  Phoronix

Heroic Games Launcher 2.10.0 released with plenty of essential fixes  GamingOnLinux

"FIREFOX DEVELOPMENT IS MOVING FROM MERCURIAL TO GIT," began the email today from Mozilla announcing Firefox is finally shifting over to Git!..

Mozilla Firefox Development Finally Moving Entirely To Git  Phoronix

A wide variety of x86 platform driver changes were merged for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel from new hardware support to improving the state of Linux on various Intel/AMD laptops...

Elon Musk Says SpaceX's Starlink Achieves Breakeven Cash Flow  Slashdot

ASUS Screenpad Support, More MSI Laptops & Intel IFS Gen2 Changes In Linux 6.7  Phoronix

Released last week was the newest version of Hangover, the project from Wine developers for helping Wine run on non-x86 CPU architectures for ultimately helping to make it easier to run x86/x86_64 Windows games/applications more easily on Linux AArch64, POWER, and RISC-V environments. The main focus still so far though is about allowing these Windows apps/games on ARM Linux systems...

Hangover 8.19 Improves Box64 Integration For Running Windows ...  Phoronix

Since the AMD Inception vulnerability was made public in August there were kernel patches merged that day and since then there's been a few rounds of clean-ups and fixes for this mitigation code formally known as the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO). With Linux 6.7, more SRSO mitigation clean-ups have been merged...

AMD Inception / SRSO Mitigation Further Cleaned Up With Linux 6.7  Phoronix

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 5th, 2023  9to5Linux

The NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver is an open-source independently-developed project that implements the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) atop NVIDIA's NVDEC interface so that software like Mozilla Firefox can enjoy video hardware acceleration on Linux using NVIDIA's proprietary driver...

NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.11 Delivers Various Fixes  Phoronix

Itanium retired from Linux by Torvalds  Fudzilla

Linux 服务器监控  CSDN

EC2 Image Builder adds Amazon Linux 2023 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS managed image support  AWS Blog