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GEICO Insurance Company Developing TuxTape - A New Linux Kernel Livepatching Solution

Phoronix - Tue, 02/04/2025 - 05:06
Red Hat's Kpatch, Oracle's Ksplice, and SUSE's kGraft are the most well known solutions currently for Linux kernel live-patching primarily for applying security patches to running Linux servers. It wasn't on my bingo card for insurance giant GEICO working baking their own Linux kernel live-patching solution, but they announced it this weekend and it will soon be open-source...

Cloud Hypervisor 44 Released With New Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 02/04/2025 - 03:43
Cloud Hypervisor 44 is now available as the newest version of this security and cloud minded Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) that operates atop Linux's KVM and the Microsoft MSHV Hypervisor...

Three New Intel Battlemage Device IDs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 02/04/2025 - 02:20
Three more PCI device IDs were added today to the Intel open-source Mesa 3D graphics driver code for Battlemage that could be for future higher-end products or along the lines of Data Center GPU Flex Series or other products...

Alpine Linux In An Infrastructure Crisis With Equinix Metal Sunsetting

Phoronix - Tue, 02/04/2025 - 02:00
Last week I wrote about the crisis plaguing X.Org / FreeDesktop.org with losing out on their cloud/server infrastructure due to losing out on their free server resources provided by Equinix at the end of April. It's not only FreeDesktop.org and all those hosted projects now rushing to find hosting alternatives and sponsorships to cover new costs, but it turns out the Alpine Linux project is also in a similar position...

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