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While Cloudflare is in the process of replacing Nginx with their in-house, Rust-written alternative, the Cloudflare infrastructure is vast and has many different services at play. For one of the areas they are still currently relying on Nginx, this week they published a blog post outlining how they rewrote an Nginx module in the C programming language to instead make use of Rust...

Cloud Hypervisor as a reminder is what started out as an open-source Intel project to develop a modern hypervisor focused on cloud workloads and with security being among the leading concerns. Cloud Hypervisor more recently is developed as a Linux Foundation project but with Intel's software engineers being among the leading contributors to the project along with the likes of Arm, Tencent, Bytedance, and Microsoft...

Intel-Led Cloud Hypervisor 30 Released With CLI Changes To ...  Phoronix

The cryptography subsystem updates for the Linux 6.3 merge window landed earlier this week with a few notable additions this cycle...

Linux 6.3 Crypto Brings ARIA AVX2/AVX-512, TRNG Driver For StarFive SoCs  Phoronix

FreeBSD 13.2 Beta 3 is now available in providing the latest test release for this forthcoming update to the FreeBSD 13 stable series...

FreeBSD 13.2 Beta 3 Brings Support For More 4G Modems, Linux ...  Phoronix

Linux Lite 6.4 to Adopt Zstd Compression for Its Apps for Lightning Fast Updates  9to5Linux

If you didn't like Linux and you go back to Windows, you should keep ...  Gearrice

8 things you can do with Linux that you can't do with MacOS or ...  ZDNet

How Puppy Linux Saved the Day for a Windows User  LinuxInsider.com

Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak - Slashdot  Slashdot

How to Quickly Change Default Apps on Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Install Ruby on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

The RISC-V architecture updates were merged this Saturday for the Linux 6.3 merge window...

RISC-V With Linux 6.3 Lands Optimized String Functions Via Zbb Extension  Phoronix

TUXEDO OS 2 Launches with KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS and Linux Kernel 6.1 LTS  9to5Linux

SSDFS Is The Newest Linux Filesystem & Catering To NVMe ZNS SSDs  Phoronix

Sent out for review on Friday evening were 76 patches implementing SSDFS, the newest open-source Linux file-system and catering to flash-friendly drives and particularly those with NVMe Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) support...

For modern Intel platforms supporting Coreboot whether it be for Chromebooks or on server platforms, they are still beholden to the Intel Firmware Support Package (FSP) binary blobs. But Google and Intel engineers have been working to enable more flexibility around the FSP binaries by being able to optionally reduce the amount of proprietary firmware executed on the CPU, optionally weeding out some of the optional FSP components, and optimizing the status quo to achieve greater boot speeds...