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Linux 6.1 Feature Would Have Caught All memcpy Based Buffer Overflows Of Recent Years

Phoronix - Tue, 10/04/2022 - 01:30
A kernel hardening security improvement on the way for Linux 6.1 is the ability to provide warning of possible memcpy() based overflows. Right now this is only a warning but it's work towards being able to address "trivially detectable" buffer overflow conditions within the kernel and in the future may be able to block such overflows from happening...

AMD Rembrandt CPUFreq vs. AMD P-State Linux Testing

Phoronix - Mon, 10/03/2022 - 23:30
Before getting busy with the AMD Ryzen 7000 "Zen 4" desktop testing, I recently wrapped up some benchmarks looking at the ACPI CPUFreq vs. AMD P-State frequency scaling drivers and various governor options for the AMD Ryzen 6000 "Rembrandt" mobile SoCs. If you are curious about the impact of CPUFreq/P-State and the various governors for the latest AMD laptops running Linux, this round of testing is for you.

IceWM 3.0 Released For This Speedy & Simplicity-Minded X11 Window Manager

Phoronix - Mon, 10/03/2022 - 23:30
IceWM 3.0 was released today as the latest major update to this X11 window manager that has been development since the late 90's with a particular focus on simplicity and speed...

OpenMandriva's Rolling Release Reaches "Gold", Continues With AMD Zen Optimized Version

Phoronix - Mon, 10/03/2022 - 20:47
OpenMandriva ROME is a rolling-release version of this Linux distribution whose roots trace back to the days of Mandriva and before that Mandrake Linux. This rolling release flavor of OpenMandriva is now up to a "gold" candidate status...

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