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This year there has been a lot of Linux kernel work around improving the handling of tiered memory servers, namely those with traditional system RAM augmented by Intel Optane DC persistent memory. There has been work to demote pages during reclamation to the slower persistent memory, improving NUMA balancing around such systems to optimize memory placement, transparent page placement and related work around tiered memory Linux servers...

Speculative NUMA Fault Support Proposed For Improving Tiered Memory Linux Performance  Phoronix

Coming with future Intel CPUs is Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) to further enhance the security of virtual machines (VMs) and it's sounded a lot like AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) in many regards and in fact now for the Linux kernel Intel is looking at leveraging some of that SEV code to allow for more code sharing between these CPU features to improve virtualization security...

Aside from the separate work around experimental Vulkan Video decode support, thanks to Intel recently there have been a number of Vulkan improvements to the FFmpeg code around new accelerated filters...

One year after Apple introduced the M1 SoC and the effort began to bring-up this Apple Silicon under Linux, the effort remains ongoing and more code is inching closer to the mainline kernel...

Week in review: Apache Log4j 0day exploited, Kali Linux 2021.4 released, Patch Tuesday forecast  Help Net Security

I make it no secret that I love Lego, but I've moved far away from my Lego collection, and shipping a closet full of classic Lego sets all the way around the world is currently a problematic proposal. I've done a lot of virtualization to solve this problem, from building models in Lego CAD to styling models with a Lego texture in Blender. Recently I discovered Goxel.

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Guidance for preventing, detecting, and hunting for CVE-2021-44228 Log4j 2 exploitation  Microsoft

Is Linux a More Secure OS Than Windows?  Medium

How to Download and Install Linux on a Chromebook  BollyInside

How to download and install AnyDesk on Debian 11 Bullseye Linux  BollyInside

Rust for Linux Progresses with New Abstractions and Infrastructure  InfoQ.com

Rust for Linux Progresses with New Abstractions and Infrastructure  InfoQ.com

What you missed in New York last month (according to Linux)  BollyInside

How to Update Discord  How-To Geek

Rust in the Linux Kernel: 'Good Enough' – The New Stack  thenewstack.io

2 ways to install Oracle Java 17 on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04 LTS  Linux Shout

The recent activity around x86 (x86_64 included) straight-line speculation mitigation handling is set to culminate with this security feature being set for mainline with the upcoming Linux 5.17 cycle...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS isn't expected to run on aging IBM POWER8 hardware as Canonical is shifting its PPC64EL architecture baseline to POWER9 for building packages...

SeaBIOS as the open-source x86 BIOS implementation commonly used by QEMU as well as a Coreboot payload is out with a new release...