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Brief: This guide explores how to disable IPv6 on RHEL, Rocky Linux, and AlmaLinux distributions. In computing, there are two types of IP addressing; IPv4 and IPv6. IPv4 is a 32-bit address that contains

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There's a good chance Android 14 will support a new file format  Android Police

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.1-rc4 as the latest weekly test release for the in-development Linux 6.1 kernel...

Linux 6.1-rc4 Released: "Please Jump Right In, The Water Is Fine"  Phoronix

Devuan-Based PeppermintOS November 2022 Release Brings New and Updated Tools  9to5Linux

Flashback: a look back at Intel-powered smartphones and tablets - comments  GSMArena.com

Future Intel CPUs and some existing processors via a microcode update will support a new feature called the Asynchronous EXit (AEX) notification mechanism to help with Software Guard Extensions (SGX) enclave security. Patches for the Linux kernel are pending for implementing this Intel AEX Notify support with capable processors...

Intel AEX Notify Support Prepped For Linux To Help Enhance SGX Enclave Security  Phoronix

Along with the likes of OBS Studio adding NVENC AV1 support for enjoying GPU-accelerated AV1 video encoding with GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs, the widely-used FFmpeg library has merged its support for NVIDIA NVENC AV1 video encoding...

Last month Red Hat engineer Hans de Goede warned that old and "weird" laptops could see broken backlight controls with the upcoming Linux 6.1 kernel. He issued a call for testing and as a result was provided valuable feedback that led to some new fixes now on the way. But there still is more work ahead and he's requested further testing by Linux laptop users to ensure the reworked backlight handling is in good shape...

Linux Laptop Backlight Fixes On The Way For v6.1, More Testing Encouraged  Phoronix

Made public earlier this year was Spectre-BHB / BHI as a speculative execution vulnerability similar to Spectre V2 and affecting Intel and Arm CPUs. At the time Neoverse N2 / N1 / V1 and older cores like Cortex-A15 / A57 / A72 were known to be vulnerable and required software mitigations. The upcoming AmpereOne is also vulnerable to Spectre-BHB and has a patch now on its way to the Linux kernel for mitigating this Spectre class vulnerability...

AmpereOne Getting Mitigated Against Spectre-BHB With Linux 6.2  Phoronix

"BTRFS_RESERVE_FLUSH_EMERGENCY" is on the way for the Linux 6.2 kernel for dealing with some issues that originally turned up within Facebook's data centers where they were seeing routine out-of-space transaction aborts. With BTRFS_RESERVE_FLUSH_EMERGENCY, Btrfs will try harder to avoid aborted transactions when running out of space...

Btrfs "Reserve Flush Emergency" Feature Heading To Linux 6.2  Phoronix

Linux Software Market 2022 Research Analysis : Google, Twitter, Facebook, Amazon  The Knox Reports

‘Search Light’ is Like macOS Spotlight for GNOME Shell  OMG! Ubuntu!

How to Use diff to Compare Text Files in the Linux Terminal  MUO - MakeUseOf

Intel to launch Sapphire Rapids on January 10, more details on paid software-based Xeon upgrades emerge  TechSpot

Create a Local Git Repository on Linux with the Help of SSH  thenewstack.io