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The Linux Concept Journey — Zero Device (/dev/zero) | by Shlomi Boutnaru, Ph.D. | Nov, 2024  Medium

Red Hat Officially Coming to WSL  WebProNews

The AMDXDNA kernel driver for Linux systems that was made open-source in January for supporting the Ryzen AI NPU on laptop SoCs going back to the Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" series is now one step away from appearing in the mainline Linux kernel in the near future...

AMDXDNA Driver For Ryzen AI Now Ready To Appear In The Linux kernel  Phoronix

Linux update adds support for 128 terabyte SD cards— SDUC and UHS-II SD cards are now supported  Tom's Hardware

Just Starting in the Linux Terminal? Here Are Some Setup Tips  How-To Geek

Earlier this week was the main power management updates for Linux 6.13 that included switching AMD EPYC Turin to using the amd_pstate driver on supported systems. Sent out this weekend was another set of power management updates that also includes a notable addition: the virtual CPUFreq driver...

Virtual CPUFreq Driver Coming With Linux 6.13 For Better Power/Performance Within VMs  Phoronix

Following all of the MM patches earlier this week sent in by Andrew Morton, on Sunday morning he sent out all of the non-MM patches that he manages for the Linux kernel. Notable for Linux 6.13 with this pull request is presenting the hung task counter as well as finishing off the folio conversion in the NILFS2 code...

Linux 6.13 Will Report The Number Of Hung Tasks Since Boot  Phoronix

Week in review: 0-days exploited in Palo Alto Networks firewalls, two unknown Linux backdoors identified  Help Net Security

Ahead of FreeBSD 14.2 hopefully releasing in just over one week, FreeBSD 14.2-RC1 is out this weekend as the last planned development release for testing ahead of that much anticipated point release...

How to Pipe and Redirect Like a Pro in the Linux Command Line  Review Geek

Warp Is a Power User’s Dream Terminal for Linux  The New Stack

Microsoft Continues "Demikernel" Development LibOS For Kernel-Bypass I/O  Phoronix

A Microsoft Research project that was quietly announced a few years ago to some fanfare but not hearing much about since has been Demikernel as their library OS architecture for kernel-bypass I/O. A Phoronix reader brought up Demikernel this week and while it hasn't been talked about much in recent years it does remain under active development with the most recent commits as of hours ago...

IBM isn't formally releasing Power11 processors until next year, but their software engineers continue being quite busy preparing the Linux kernel and other open-source software for Power11. The newest on the kernel side is enabling support for KVM nested guests on IBM Power11 platforms...

China-linked APT Gelsemium uses a new Linux backdoor dubbed WolfsBane  Security Affairs

For those still running a 1st Generation Xeon Scalable "Skylake" era server, support for it within the open-source Coreboot firmware may continue to improve all these years later thanks to firmware consulting firm 9elements...

Wine 9.22 is out this weekend ahead of the Wine 10.0-rc1 in two weeks...