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As a follow-up to A Fix Is Pending For That Linux 5.15 Performance Regression, Linus Torvalds decided to pull the fix directly into Linux 5.15 Git today for addressing this real-world, measurable performance regression...

Elastic Announces New Threat Prevention Capabilities for Windows, macOS and Linux, and Host Isolation for Cloud Native Linux Environments  Joplin Globe

Elastic Announces New Threat Prevention Capabilities for Windows, macOS and Linux, and Host Isolation for Cloud Native Linux Environments  Business Wire

Android to take an “upstream first” development model for the Linux kernel  Ars Technica

Steam Deck, Linux and Mac Get Easy Anti-Cheat Support  Tom's Hardware

Steam Deck, Linux and Mac Get Easy Anti-Cheat Support  Tom's Hardware

BPF-Based Linux Firewall "bpfilter" Shows Impressive Performance Potential  Phoronix

Generating much excitement back in 2018 was bpfilter for the potential to better Linux's firewall and packet filtering by making it more robust and performance. Recently work on this BPF-based firewall solution was renewed and the performance potential over iptables and nftables is looking very good for the future...

How to create Let's Encrypt SSL certificates with acme.sh on Linux  TechRepublic

Not too surprising given the Steam Deck is inching closer towards release and we've known Valve has been working to improve the anti-cheat situation for games on Linux, but today EAC owner Epic Games officially announced Easy Anti-Cheat for both Linux and macOS...

Linux Systems Specialist  IT-Online

The promising FUTEX2 work focused on improving the Linux performance for running Windows games via Wine/Proton by extending futex to wait on multiple locks is still moving forward...

AMD's Older Radeon GPUs Get Ray Tracing Support on Linux  Tom's Hardware

AMD's Older Radeon GPUs Get Ray Tracing Support on Linux  Tom's Hardware

The Linux Foundation & edX Teach Open Source to 2 Million Learners  PRNewswire

A Fix Is Pending For That Linux 5.15 Performance Regression  Phoronix

Last week was the article on noticing various workloads performing slower on the Linux 5.15 development kernel. There is now a patch pending that in testing so far does indeed correct the performance drop on this forthcoming kernel.

Microsoft's "CLOn12" effort to allow OpenCL over DirectX 12 by leveraging Mesa now has landed a major rework to its code within Mesa...

EnduraData Updates File Synchronization for Ransomware & Linux Containers  PRNewswire

EnduraData Updates File Synchronization for Ransomware & Linux Containers  KPVI News 6