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AppArmor For Linux 6.17 Set To Introduce AF_UNIX Mediation, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 08/04/2025 - 20:45
Canonical engineer John Johansen sent out the AppArmor pull request today for the Linux 6.17 merge window that is heavy on changes for this Linux kernel security module...

Google Preparing To Ship Chrome With "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" For Wayland

Phoronix - Mon, 08/04/2025 - 18:44
Google Chrome/Chromium is preparing to ship with "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" functionality by default so the web browser will play nicer out-of-the-box with Wayland...

Linux 6.17 Making Kdump Crash Kernel More Reliable, Less Wasted Memory

Phoronix - Mon, 08/04/2025 - 18:30
In addition to the many MM changes merged this weekend for Linux 6.17, Andrew Morton on Sunday also sent out his "non-MM" pull request for this new kernel. Notable there is improving the Kdump code to allow for crash kernel reservation made from the contiguous memory allocator to help yield less wasted RAM and greater reliability...

GNOME Shell 49 Beta Brings Restart/Shutdown Support To The Lock Screen

Phoronix - Mon, 08/04/2025 - 18:15
Along with the release of the Mutter 49 beta, GNOME Shell 49 beta was released on Sunday in preparation for the imminent GNOME 49 beta release. Notable here is long sought after support for having the ability to restart or shutdown the computer from GNOME's lock screen...

NetBSD 11.0 Preparing For Release With Improved Linux Emulation, Better RISC-V Support

Phoronix - Mon, 08/04/2025 - 17:54
NetBSD 11.0 release preparations have begun. The NetBSD developers are hoping to officially release NetBSD 11.0 in October and for that to happen the release candidate would be out in September and daily beta builds can already be tested...

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