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Red Hat and Google Cloud: Bringing the datacenter and public cloud closer together

Red Hat News - Wed, 08/30/2023 - 08:00
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

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

Phoronix - Wed, 08/30/2023 - 07:56
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...

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

Phoronix - Wed, 08/30/2023 - 05:10
The Linux 6.6 modules infrastructure is changing to better protect against the illicit behavior of NVIDIA's proprietary kernel driver...

XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.17.1 Released With Accent Color Support

Phoronix - Wed, 08/30/2023 - 03:29
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...

GNU Coreutils 9.4 Adds Experimental "--enable-systemd" Option, Faster Split

Phoronix - Wed, 08/30/2023 - 00:28
GNU Coreutils 9.4 is out today as the latest version of this collection of utilities common to GNU/Linux systems and other platforms...

Intel Gale Peak, New BPF Features & Other Networking Changes For Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Tue, 08/29/2023 - 23:55
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...

Linux 6.6 Adding Randomized Kmalloc Caches For Further System Hardening

Phoronix - Tue, 08/29/2023 - 23:28
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...

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