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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

OpenELA Announces Release of Enterprise Linux Source Code to ...  HPCwire

LibreOffice 7.5.8 Is Here as the Last Update in the Series, Upgrade to LibreOffice 7.6 Now  9to5Linux

One of the last major blockers before the remaining real-time "PREEMPT_RT" patches can be upstreamed is sorting out threaded / atomic console printing. With the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel, there's been more work upstreamed in that endeavor...

Linux 6.7 Continues Work On printk Threaded Printing  Phoronix

You Can Now Upgrade from Ubuntu 23.04 to Ubuntu 23.10, Here’s How  9to5Linux

Audacity 3.4 Released with Music Workflows, New Exporter, and More  9to5Linux

Microsoft Azure's update mechanism now supports a snapshot service in Ubuntu  Neowin

Last week with the AMDVLK 2023.Q4.1 driver, AMD removed support for Polaris and Vega GPUs from this official open-source Vulkan driver. But as mentioned this doesn't impact the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver maintained by Valve, Red Hat, and other open-source developers. In fact, this week another optimization for Vega/GFX9 was merged for Mesa 24.0-devel...

AMDVLK Dropped Vega While Mesa's RADV Is Continuing To Make ...  Phoronix

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has signed off on shipping KDE Plasma 6.0 as the KDE desktop option for Fedora 40. Additionally, as part of this change, the plan is to drop the KDE X11 session to leave only the KDE Plasma Wayland session available...