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One of the set of tests I have been meaning to carry out for a number of months has been comparing the Mesa Rusticl performance to different dedicated hardware drivers. Rusticl is the Rust-based OpenCL 3.0 driver within Mesa that works across Gallium3D drivers and over the past many months has been maturing rather well. Among the targets I have been wanting to compare is how well Rusticl competes with the AMD ROCm OpenCL implementation for Radeon GPUs. Given all the interest recently around Strix Halo and the Framework Desktop as well, today's benchmarking is looking at the performance between these different OpenCL driver implementations for the Radeon 8060S Graphics.

Lockbit Linux ESXi Ransomware Variant Evasion Techniques, File Encryption Process Uncovered  CyberSecurityNews

DripDropper Linux malware cleans up after itself - how it works  ZDNET

Ukrainian devs Cheers LLC bring puzzle-metroidvania Neanderthallica to Linux and macOS  GamingOnLinux

Accessing Root Directory in Nautilus File Manager  It's FOSS

Bhyve is the BSD hypervisor / virtual machine manager (VMM) developed by FreeBSD that supports a range of operating systems and across CPU vendors. With time Bhyve has also been ported to other BSDs and even Illumos and macOS. The Linux kernel is now in the process of adding guest detection for the Bhyve hypervisor in order to support VMs with 255+ vCPUs...

Linux Adding Detection For BSD's Bhyve Hypervisor To Support 255+ vCPUs  Phoronix

Webcam-based head & eye tracking app for gaming, LookPilot gets improved Linux compatibility  GamingOnLinux

While the Linux v6.17 merge window only wrapped up earlier this month, Apple Silicon DeviceTree "DT" updates have already begun queuing for the Linux 6.18 merge window that will happen in October...

Apple SoC DT Updates Already Begin Lining Up For Linux 6.18  Phoronix

Intel's newest contribution to the upstream LLVM compiler stack is XeVM as their Multi-Level Intermediate Representation "MLIR" dialect catering to modern Intel graphics processors...

Patches were posted on Monday for Kernel Stack Watch, a new lightweight debugging tool for detecting kernel stack corruption in real-time on Linux...

Kernel Stack Watch Proposed As New Linux Debugging Tool  Phoronix

Lockbit Linux ESXi Ransomware Variant Reveals Evasion Techniques and File Encryption Process  GBHackers News

CVE-2025-38571 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps  wiz.io

Unmasking the Secrets of Lockbit’s Linux ESXi Ransomware – Evasion Tactics and File Encryption Revealed  cyberpress.org

Windows Update Is Killing SSDs! Should You Switch to Linux?  It's FOSS News

Google engineer Roman Gushchin has proposed the ability for the Linux kernel to customize the out-of-memory "OOM" behavior using BPF programs...

New Linux Patches Allow Manipulating Out-Of-Memory Behavior Using BPF  Phoronix

This series takes a look at the people and planning that went into building and releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. From the earliest conceptual stages to the launch at Red Hat Summit 2025, we’ll hear firsthand accounts of how RHEL 10 came into being.At Red Hat Summit 2025, we announced the latest version of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10. This release was much more than a few minor enhancements or feature additions; RHEL 10 delivers AI-powered Linux management, post-quantum cryptography capabilities and containers as the native languag