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Back for the Linux 6.12 kernel EROFS introduced support for file-backed mounts to help with container and sandboxing use-cases. As part of the EROFS "fixes" merged yesterday to the Linux 6.13 kernel, file-backed mounts are now using buffered I/O by default to speed-up container start times...

Xfce 4.20 is out: Wayland support lands, but some pieces are still missing  The Register

The latest house cleaning of the Linux kernel is looking to drop support for IBM Cell Blade servers for those platforms from the better part of two decades ago with Cell BE processors that also had worked their way into some supercomputers at the time...

Linux Looks To Drop Support For IBM Cell Blade Servers  Phoronix

These Are The Most Useful Linux Apps I Discovered in 2024  It's FOSS News

A drm-intel-gt-next pull request was sent in today to DRM-Next of the latest batch of Intel kernel graphics driver updates destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle...

Intel Linux Graphics Driver To Do A Better Job Of Keeping Track Of Its Engine Busyness  Phoronix

Fedora Asahi Remix 41 Release Adds Support for AAA Gaming  It's FOSS News

Latest VMware update is free with no license, fixes Windows 11 and Linux freezes, crashes  Neowin

A few weeks back I reviewed the SilverStone XE360-SP5 and XE04-SP5 cooling solutions catering to AMD EPYC 9004/9005 Socket SP5 processors. These coolers worked well with 400 Watt EPYC processors and especially the XE360-SP5 all-in-one liquid cooling was very performant and practical with today's server CPU TDPs ever increasing. After that SilverStone mentioned to me they had a new heatsink that could run up to 13 degrees cooler than the XE04-SP5 4U air cooler... Talk about intriguing. Meet the new SilverStone XED120S-WS for high-end air cooling for up to 450 Watt processors while working with multiple Intel and AMD CPU sockets.

How to use the Hydra password-cracking tool  TechTarget

Hackers Exploit Linux SSH Servers Using Screen & hping3 Tools With “cShell” Bot  GBHackers

Lenovo Legion Linux Driver Posted For Handling Power/Performance Settings  Phoronix

A patch posted on Tuesday for the Linux kernel would introduce new Lenovo Legion WMI driver options for supporting Lenovo Legion laptops as well as the Legion Go handheld gaming console to support different power/performance settings...

AOMP 20.0-1 was released on Tuesday as the newest version of this LLVM/Clang downstream focused on shipping the latest AMD patches around Radeon/Instinct OpenMP accelerator offload support...

Inside Linux Foundation’s Vision for Open-Source Models  AIM

Helltaker creator's new game Awaria to get macOS and Linux builds, with beta versions now available on Itch  AUTOMATON WEST

Merged today to the Linux kernel are fixes for two vulnerabilities with the Xen hypervisor. One of them concerns a malicious network backend being able to crash a guest after a suspend/resume cycle of a Linux guest. The other more pressing issue addressed is a Xen hypercall page being unsafe against speculative CPU attacks...

Linux Patched For Unsafe Xen Behavior Around CPU Speculative Attack Protections  Phoronix

New DDoS Malware “cShell” Exploit Linux Tools to Attack SSH Servers  CybersecurityNews