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Ubuntu Officially Available on the Updated Windows Subsystem for Linux  GBHackers

Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust Introduces New Initiatives  CoinTrust

Someone got Linux running inside a PDF file, because its users are something else  MSN

The modern Intel "Xe" Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver as the clean successor to the i915 driver has been an experimental option for Tigerlake and newer but only for Xe2 graphics (Lunar Lake / Battlemage) and newer is it used by default. But Google at least for their Chromebook use-cases is entertaining the idea of switching over to the Xe driver rather than the long-used i915 kernel driver for Alder Lake era hardware...

Google Interested In The Modern Intel Xe Linux Kernel Driver On Alder Lake  Phoronix

Linux Foundation Energy releases SEAPATH version 1.0  IT Brief Australia

Editor’s note: Earlier today, president and chief executive officer of Red Hat, Matt Hicks, shared the following email with Red Hatters.--Hi all,Today, we’re sharing that Red Hat and IBM will join forces to secure the future of the Java application ecosystem for our customers. The Red Hat middleware engineering and product teams will join the IBM Data Security, IAM, and Runtimes organization, forming a single team.* This move supports and grows our combined customer footprint, and builds a unified product strategy for the future of Java applications and Integration solutions in the era of

Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer  The Register

Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer  The Register

Top 7 Most Secure Linux Distro for Privacy in 2025  New Jersey Digest

Yesterday I showcased Linux 6.14 Git performance worse than Linux 6.13 and 6.12 in a number of multi-threaded workloads. Due to that initial discover being on the lone AMD EPYC Turin 2P server that is always busy running through new benchmarks for future content as well as I am being persistently short on time and constantly under pressure due to the state of the web/ad industry, I didn't expect to get around to digging deeper into the problem in the near-term. But as I ended up being able to reproduce some of the regressions on a System76 Thelio Major workstation at my desk with the still mighty powerful Ryzen Threadripper 7980X, I was able to turn around a quick bisect...

Bisecting The Linux 6.14 Performance Regression With System76 Thelio + AMD Threadripper  Phoronix

U.S. CISA adds Linux kernel flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog  Security Affairs

Intel Is Reportedly Preparing New Battlemage Graphics Cards, New Device IDs Appear In Linux Graphics Driver Code  Wccftech

Ubuntu Linux on WSL gets massive upgrade with new tar-based install that makes Microsoft Store optional  BetaNews

NVIDIA Engineer Talks Up sched_ext Linux Scheduler Possibilities At FOSDEM  Phoronix

Merged last year for the Linux 6.12 kernel was sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler possibilities by allowing schedulers to be implemented as eBPF code and dynamically loaded into the kernel. This allows for rapidly developing new schedulers as well as exploring other new possibilities around more intelligent kernel scheduling decisions. Meta, Google, Canonical (Ubuntu), and others have been big proponents of sched_ext and NVIDIA is also increasingly vocalizing their support for these extensible scheduler opportunities...

CISA orders agencies to patch Linux kernel bug exploited in attacks  BleepingComputer

CISA Adds Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Vulnerability (CVE-2024-53104) to Known Exploited Vuln Catalog  CybersecurityNews

Blocking Linux / Steam Deck in Apex Legends led to a 'meaningful reduction' in cheaters  GamingOnLinux