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Linux 6.8.5 & Other Stable Kernel Updates Due To Native BHI Vulnerability

Phoronix - Wed, 04/10/2024 - 23:25
Due to yesterday's Native BHI vulnerability disclosure affecting all Intel processors with this variant of Branch History Injection (BHI) not requiring BPF to exploit, a slew of new Linux kernel stable releases are out today to back-port this security mitigation...

Gentoo Linux Now An SPI Project

Phoronix - Wed, 04/10/2024 - 23:11
While the Gentoo Foundation has long existed, to reduce the organizational complexity and overhead as well as becoming effectively a tax deductible non-profit at the US federal level, Gentoo Linux has become an associated project with Software in the Public Interest (SPI)...

Microsoft Rolls Out Azure Linux 2.0.20240403 With Security Fixes & Other Patches

Phoronix - Wed, 04/10/2024 - 19:00
Microsoft's Azure Linux formerly known as CBL-Mariner for their in-house Linux distribution is out with a new version. Azure Linux 2.0.20240403 was released overnight and comes with a number of security updates and other fixes...

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces New Collaboration With Qualcomm

Phoronix - Wed, 04/10/2024 - 18:45
Following yesterday's news of Canonical launching Ubuntu Pro For Devices, the latest mobile/embedded news in the Ubuntu space this week is Canonical partnering with Qualcomm...

Intel Updates OpenCL Intercept Layer With New Abilities

Phoronix - Wed, 04/10/2024 - 18:35
For several years Intel has been developing the OpenCL Intercept Layer to assist in debugging OpenCL software. It's been nearly two years since the last release of this open-source OpenCL interception layer while today brings v3.0.4 with a number of optimizations and new features...

Intel HID Driver Ready For Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake Laptops With Linux 6.9

Phoronix - Wed, 04/10/2024 - 18:13
Sent out this morning were a batch of x86 platform driver fixes by Intel engineer and platform-drivers-x86 co-maintainer Ilpo Järvinen. Besides a couple of fixes, worth mentioning is the Intel HID driver seeing support added for upcoming Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake platforms...

How to Install ImageMagick 7 on Debian and Ubuntu

Tecmint - Wed, 04/10/2024 - 14:12
The post How to Install ImageMagick 7 on Debian and Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

ImageMagick is a free and open source, feature-rich, text-based, and cross-platform image manipulation tool used to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It runs

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UPower 1.90.4 Fixes Excessive Disk Writes & High CPU Usage

Phoronix - Wed, 04/10/2024 - 08:08
UPower as the abstraction layer for enumerating power devices on Linux systems and allowing various battery / power supply features is out with a new feature update...

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