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Over the past week Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been active on a Linux kernel mailing list thread around avoiding barrier_nospec() in copy_from_user() due to being "overkill and painfully slow." The conversation evolved into low-level discussions over CPU behavior and how to best handle, differing behavior/requirements with new Intel CPUs supporting Linear Address Masking (LAM), and the overall headaches these days around CPU security mitigations...

Linus Torvalds Growing Frustrated By Buggy Hardware & Theoretical CPU Attacks  Phoronix

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.20 for running Windows games/applications on Linux, Hangover 9.20 is now available for this extension of Wine that builds off that codebase while pairing it with an x86/x86_64 emulator for running Windows programs on other CPU architectures like ARM64 Linux. With Hangover 9.20 they have restored the ability for running Win64 applications on ARM64 Linux hosts...

Hangover 9.20 Restores Support For Running Win64 Applications On ARM64 Wine  Phoronix

The Unvanquished 0.55 open-source game that was recently teased for its OpenGL 4.6 renderer work is out today with its shiny new release. As it's been more than one and a half years since Unvanquished 0.54, this new beta comes with a load of improvements especially around optimizing its Daemon open-source engine that is long derived from id Tech 3...

Meson 1.6 was published on Sunday as the newest feature update to this popular cross-platform build system...

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 20th, 2024  9to5Linux

Red Hat reveals major enhancements to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI  ZDNet

Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole takes flight - with a blend of innovation and nostalgia  ZDNet

Linux 6.12's fourth release candidate didn't give Torvalds "the warm and fuzzies"  Neowin

Linux 6.12's fourth release candidate didn't give Torvalds "the warm and fuzzies"  Neowin

Linux admin asked savvy scientist for IT help and the boffin blew it  The Register

The post Setting Up OpenLDAP and phpLDAPadmin in Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

OpenLDAP is an open-source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), which provides a way to manage and access

The post Setting Up OpenLDAP and phpLDAPadmin in Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux Statistics 2024 By Market, Usage And Website Traffic  Coolest Gadgets

The post Rsnapshot: A Powerful Backup Tool Based on Rsync first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Rsnapshot is an open-source local/remote filesystem backup utility written in Perl, which leverages the power of Rsync and SSH to

The post Rsnapshot: A Powerful Backup Tool Based on Rsync first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

PorteuX Linux 1.7 released with smaller ISOs and performance optimizations  BetaNews

Red Hat Accelerates Gen AI Innovation with its Enterprise Linux AI on Lenovo Servers  The Fast Mode

Linux 6.12-rc4 is out today as the half-way point to releasing the Linux 6.12 stable kernel around this time of the month in November...

Linux 6.12-rc4 Released With MSI Claw A1M Controller Support, Intel & AMD Fixes  Phoronix

Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.7 Launches with Linux 6.11, GNOME 47.1, and More  9to5Linux