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Russian coders removed from Linux maintainers list due to sanction concerns  Ars Technica

Russians removed from the Linux kernel — Linus Torvalds responds harshly to criticism  ITC

Why remove Russian maintainers of Linux kernel? Here's what Torvalds says  ZDNet

Linus Torvalds slams supporters of delisted Russian driver maintainers as ‘trolls’  Tom's Hardware

When a number of Russian Linux developers were removed from their MAINTAINERS file in the Linux kernel, it was described as due to "compliance requirements" but vague in what those requirements entailed. Linus Torvalds then commented on the Russian Linux maintainers being de-listed and made it clear that they were done due to government compliance requirements / legal issues around Russia. Now today some additional light has been shed on those new Linux kernel "compliance requirements"...

Nvidia Patches High-Severity Flaws in Windows, Linux Graphics Drivers  SecurityWeek

How to examine files on Linux  Network World

RISC-V Generic CPU Vulnerabilities Reporting in Linux 6.12  Electropages

Tor Browser 14.0 amps up privacy, but drops support for older Windows and macOS systems -- are you still protected?  BetaNews

“I’m Finnish. Did you think I'd be supporting Russian aggression?”: Linux creator confirms Russian developers expelled due to sanctions  The Insider

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Delivers Strong Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

Earlier this month Intel announced the Core Ultra 200S "Arrow Lake" processors and today they go on sale. In turn, the review embargo also lifts for these new desktop processors. Up first today on Phoronix is the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux performance review for this flagship 24-core desktop processor.

Debian-based distro Parrot 6.2 intros the Rocket launcher alongside several package updates  Notebookcheck.net

Russian linux kernel maintainers removed due to sanctions  Boing Boing

For the recently launched AMD EPYC 9005 series "Turin" processors there is good support out-of-the-box running on the likes of Linux 6.8 as found with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The one exception is if wanting to engage CPU power monitoring you need a RAPL/PowerCap patch that was just upstreamed in v6.12. But what about using a newer kernel for greater performance in light of all the upstream optimizations to the kernel in general? Here are some Linux 6.8 vs. 6.11 vs. 6.12 kernel benchmarks on a dual AMD EPYC 9755 server...

AMD EPYC 9755 Performance On The Linux 6.11 & Linux 6.12 Kernels  Phoronix

Linux partnering with Task 53 of the IEA on bidirectional EV charging  Renewable Energy Magazine

Linux: Several Russian maintainers kicked out  heise online

Linux starts banning Russian leading kernel developers  Mezha.Media

Intel today released the Intel Media Driver 2024Q3 release to provide updated Video Acceleration API (VA-API) support for Linux systems along with an updated oneVPL GPU Runtime...