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Networking Support For Intel's Lunar Lake Coming With Linux 5.15  Phoronix

Back in March I wrote about Intel open-source engineers already beginning Linux bring-up for "Lunar Lake" as a future client platform not due out until 2023 at least. That work began with enabling Lunar Lake within the existing e1000e network driver and that hardware enablment work will finally be mainlined this autumn with Linux 5.15...

Root kernel vulnerability threatens many Linux distributions  Market Research Telecast

Three months after GCC 11.1 arrived as the first stable release of GCC 11, GCC 11.2 is set to be released soon while out today is the first and only planned release candidate...

Here’s how to check your phone for Pegasus spyware using Amnesty’s tool  The Verge

Digital health pass developments worldwide: Canada, Slovenia, Linux Foundation  Biometric Update

1. Patch now: Linux file system security hole, dubbed Sequoia, can take over systems  ZDNet
2. Two Linux vulnerabilities give exploiters root privileges  IT World Canada
3. New Linux kernel bug lets you get root on most modern distros  BleepingComputer
4. Researchers flag 7-years-old privilege escalation flaw in Linux kernel (CVE-2021-33909)  Help Net Security
5. Sequoia: Linux kernel security flaw gives unprivileged users root access  BetaNews
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Patch now: Linux file system security hole, dubbed Sequoia, can take over systems  ZDNet

DragonFlyBSD has integrated the NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor (NVMM) hypervisor that can be used with QEMU...

What are the Best Linux Built-in Tools for Backup and Recovery? - Online Free Press release news distribution  TopWireNews

The Terrible Tuesday For Both Linux And Windows Sysadmins  PC Perspective

In addition to NVIDIA releasing new open-source GameWorks projects this week for the Game Developers Conference, AMD with their GPUOpen initiative has released several updated Radeon Windows/Linux tools...

How to run Steam games on your Chromebook in 2021  XDA Developers

KDE is to Linux what 7 was to Windows  TechRepublic

AMD earlier this week quietly published a new version of its AOCC code compiler that is now rebased against the upstream LLVM/Clang 12.0 compiler state...

Let the Linux kernel Rust  TechRepublic

Squeezing More Performance Out Of The Linux Kernel With Clang + LTO  Phoronix

With the Linux 5.12 kernel bringing support for building the kernel with link-time optimizations (LTO) when using the LLVM Clang compiler, here are some benchmarks looking at that performance impact as well as more generally seeing how the LLVM Clang compiler performance is looking when building the Linux kernel relative to GCC.

It's Linux – But On An ESP32  Hackaday