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Btrfs Preps Performance Improvements & Experimental Large Folios For Linux 6.17  Phoronix

With the Linux 6.16 stable kernel potentially being released this coming Sunday, the Linux 6.17 merge window is quickly approaching. Btrfs maintainer and SUSE engineer David Sterba sent out the Btrfs pull request already of new feature code for this copy-on-write file-system in Linux 6.17...

For those making use of Open Virtual Machine Firmware (OVMF) such as for UEFI booting of VMs with KVM+QEMU, the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is set to offer a convenient new driver to help in debugging the system boot when needed...

Pogocache 1.0 was released today as a fast open-source caching software that aims for low latency and great CPU efficiency. Pogocache supports Memcache / Valkey / Redis / HTTP / Postgres wire protocols while claiming to offer much better throughput and lower latency than these caching alternatives...

From Kernel to Cloud: Open Source Takes On Security Trade-Offs  LinuxInsider

Firefox 141 relieves chronic Linux pain in the neck  theregister.com

Firefox 141 relieves chronic Linux pain in the neck  theregister.com

Hackers Injected Malicious Firefox Browser Packages to Arch Linux User Repository  CyberSecurityNews

Cloud Hypervisor is the open-source, Rust-based VMM started originally by Intel engineers but under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation has evolved into a nice multi-vendor initiative with the likes of Microsoft, Cyberus, Arm, and others all contributing. Even with Intel's cutbacks due to their ongoing corporate restructuring, the Cloud Hypervisor project is thriving as a multi-vendor open-source project for a security-focused hypervisor...

Cloud Hypervisor 47 Provides Nicer Error Messages  Phoronix

The newest open-source Linux kernel driver being worked on for the growing accelerator "accel" subsystem is a new hardware driver courtesy of Arm for enabling their Ethos U65 and U85 NPUs...

Arm Publishes Open-Source Accelerator Driver For Ethos-U65/85 NPUs  Phoronix

Hackers Target Arch Linux with Malicious Firefox Packages  Cyber Press

Kali Linux Introduces Two New Tools for Raspberry Pi to Boost Wi-Fi Performance  gbhackers.com

Mastering Custom Linux for Raspberry Pi 5: A Yocto Project Guide, Part 2  Design News

The Rise of Immutable Linux Distros: A New Era of Security and Stability  ITPro Today

Kali Linux Unveils Two New Tools to Boost Wi-Fi Performance for Raspberry Pi Users  CyberSecurityNews

Hackers Injected Malicious Firefox Packages in Arch Linux Repo  gbhackers.com

Someone Slipped a RAT into Arch Linux!  It's FOSS News

The crew working on enhancing the FreeBSD laptop support is hoping to have an install option within the installer of FreeBSD 15 that will easily provide a KDE Plasma based desktop environment...