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Alpine Linux 3.18 Released - Powered By Linux 6.1 LTS, Musl Libc 1.2.4

Phoronix - Wed, 05/10/2023 - 07:03
Alpine Linux 3.18 is out today as the newest feature release for this lightweight Linux distribution built with musl libc and Busybox while being popular for embedded and container use-cases...

Corsair MP700: PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD But Not Without Issues

Phoronix - Wed, 05/10/2023 - 01:39
Last week Corsair announced the MP700 series as their first PCIe 5.0 NVMe solid-state drives. While the performance is quite speedy for sequential reads and writes, in practice this drive struggled under Linux with real-world workloads. When not adding an after-market heatsink, the MP700 was quick to exhibit EXT4 file-system errors.

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Affected By Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Phoronix - Wed, 05/10/2023 - 01:10
Intel today published 38 new security advisories in their first Patch Tuesday roundabout since February. Among the new disclosures today are CVE-2023-28410 as an i915 Linux kernel graphics driver vulnerability that could lead to local privilege escalation...

ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E Hero Sensor Monitoring To Come With Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Tue, 05/09/2023 - 20:49
Sadly missing out on the Linux 6.4 kernel merge window by a few days is support for sensor monitoring with the ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E Hero motherboard...

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