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GNU C Library Adds Linux "mseal" Function For Memory Sealing  Phoronix

Valve says Steam Machine success will help to push devs to properly support anti-cheat on Linux  FRVR

Following the mainline Linux kernel support for the VisionFive 2 RISC-V single board computer from StarFive, Linux kernel patches are on the way for their new VisionFive 2 Lite low-cost offering. With the StarFive VisionFive 2 Lite this RISC-V board can be procured for as little as $19.9 USD as one of the cheapest yet fairly capable RISC-V SBCs...

Mainline Linux Patches For The VisionFive 2 Lite: RISC-V For As Little As $19.9 USD  Phoronix

Intel driver engineer Suraj Kandpal presented at the recent X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC2025) on the challenges around supporting content protection on Linux such as for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) and Protected Audio Video Path (PAVP)...

The Headaches Supporting Content Protection With Linux GPU Drivers  Phoronix

Ubuntu's New 15-Year Commitment Targets Long-Lived Enterprise Systems  It's FOSS

Fedora 44 is looking at replacing the Linux kernel's console "FBCON" with the user-space-based KMSCON implementation. Eventually the hope remains to deprecate the FBCON/FBDEV code within the Linux kernel...

Kraken Ransomware Targets Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi in Enterprise Environments  GBHackers News

Compiler engineer Marek Polacek of Red Hat recently proposed making the C++20 language specification (or rather the GNU++20 dialect) the default C++ version when not otherwise specified...

Steam Machine Will Spark A Whole New Generation of Linux-Based PCs, Says Baldur's Gate 3 Dev  Tech4Gamers

Kraken Ransomware Expands Attacks to Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi Systems  Cyber Press

Critical Imunify360 AV Vulnerability Exposes 56 Million+ Linux-hosted Websites to RCE Attacks  CyberSecurityNews

Imunify360 AV Critical Flaw Exposes 56M Linux Websites to Remote Code Execution  Cyber Press

Critical Imunify360 Vulnerability Exposes Millions of Linux-Hosted Sites to RCE Attacks  gbhackers.com

Kraken Cross-Platform Ransomware Attacking Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi Systems in Enterprise Environments  CyberSecurityNews

Someone ran a modern Linux OS on a 30-year-old CPU, and it's surprisingly usable  XDA

Tiny386 On An Espressif ESP32-S3  Hackaday

Valve reportedly cooking native Linux version of Half-Life: Alyx, optimized for Steam Frame VR  TweakTown

The EROFS read-only file-system started by Huawei and now maintained by a growing number of contributors continues attracting even more interest. EROFS has exhibited much potential for mobile devices as well as container use-cases while proving itself to be quite robust since its mainlining back in 2019...