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OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE To Provide A Security & Performance Win For Dealing With Containers

Phoronix - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 03:44
A new feature expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle is adding an OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE flag for the open_tree() system call. This OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE option can provide a nice performance win with added security benefits if you are dealing a lot with containerized workloads on Linux...

Mozilla Now Providing RPM Packages For Firefox Nightly Builds

Phoronix - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 00:18
In late 2023 Mozilla began providing Debian packages of Firefox Nightly builds complete with an APT repository. Those on Debian/Ubuntu distributions have a much easier path for enjoying Firefox Nightly since then and now Mozilla engineers are providing similar RPM builds of Firefox nightly too...

CAKE_MQ Slated For Linux 7.0 To Adapt SCH_CAKE For Today's Multi-Core World

Phoronix - Mon, 01/19/2026 - 23:55
Queued into the Linux networking subsystem's "net-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 merge window next month is cake_mq as a multi-queue aware variant of the sch_cake network scheduler. The intent with cake_mq is to better scale the network traffic rate shaper across multiple CPU cores...

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