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A change sent in this Sunday ahead of the Linux 6.3-rc3 release is a late addition adding a throttling mechanism to protect the hypervisor from potentially malicious AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) guests. The change is to protect the AMD Secure Processor from being potentially overloaded with requests by nefarious guest VMs...

Linux 6.3-rc3 Adding Protection From Malicious Guests Hammering ...  Phoronix

Serpent OS as the new Linux distribution project by Solus Linux founder Ikey Doherty has made public its build infrastructure as it begins building more packages and opening up packaging work to outside contributors...

Serpent OS Build Infrastructure Launched  Phoronix

The third and potentially last release candidate of FreeBSD 13.2 is now available for testing ahead of the planned stable 13.2-RELEASE around the end of March...

Week in review: Kali Linux gets Purple, Microsoft zero-days get ...  Help Net Security

Following Windows 11, AMD Ryzen getting performance-efficiency boost in Linux  Neowin

Amazon Linux 2023, a cloud-optimized Linux distro, is now available  Neowin

How to use PowerShell on a Chromebook  XDA Developers

How to Connect to a Wi-Fi Network on Ubuntu Server  MUO - MakeUseOf

AMD P-State Guided Autonomous Mode Coming For Linux 6.4  Phoronix

While Linux 6.3 adds AMD P-State EPP as the "Energy Performance Preference" mode for enhancing the power/performance on recent Ryzen and EPYC systems on Linux, with Linux 6.4 the P-State Guided Autonomous Mode is coming to round out AMD's current CPU frequency scaling driver efforts...

The focus of this new effort isn't to immediately rewrite the Xen virtualization hypervisor in Rust but to begin gradually working toward rewriting some of the smaller Xen Project components in the Rust programming language and to see how everything pans out...

6 Ways to Find a Raspberry Pi's IP Address  MUO - MakeUseOf

Stellaris: First Contact Story Pack and the free 3.7 update are out now  GamingOnLinux

Wine 8.4 rolls out with initial Wayland graphics driver work  GamingOnLinux

6 Apps and Software to Jumpstart Your Podcast Creation Journey  MUO - MakeUseOf

MNT Pocket Reform: New 7-inch Linux laptop launches from US$899  Notebookcheck.net

A pull request of early AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes was submitted for DRM-Next on Friday as some of the early feature work accumulating for the Linux 6.4 kernel cycle...

Linux 6.4 AMD Graphics Driver Picking Up New Power Features For The Steam Deck  Phoronix