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Just prior to the Mesa 24.2 code branching / feature freeze on Thursday, two merge requests landed working on cleaning up some Mesa interfaces and code modernization...

Kees Cook submitted all of the hardening updates this week for the Linux 6.11 merge window in beefing up the kernel's defenses against various attack vectors and vulnerabilities...

Linux 6.11 Hardening Makes FineIBT Default Configurable At Build Time  Phoronix

A change proposal was raised this week for upgrading Fedora's LXQt desktop offering to the recently released LXQt 2.0 for the upcoming Fedora 41 release...

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) updates for Linux 6.11 have been merged and it's a very exciting one for AMD EPYC servers with SEV-SNP guest VM support finally being in the mainline kernel...

Initial AMD SEV-SNP KVM Guest VM Support Merged Into Linux 6.11  Phoronix

Palmer Dabbelt on Saturday sent out the RISC-V architecture updates for the ongoing Linux 6.11 merge window...

RISC-V Sees Support For New ISA Extensions In Linux 6.11  Phoronix

RISC-V Sees Support For New ISA Extensions In Linux 6.11  Phoronix

OpenMandriva ROME 24.07: A Linux-based alternative to Microsoft Windows 11 following Crowdstrike BSOD disaster  BetaNews

OpenMandriva ROME 24.07: A Linux-based alternative to Microsoft Windows 11 following Crowdstrike BSOD disaster  BetaNews

CrowdStrike update previously crippled Linux systems, but it went unnoticed  NewsBytes

CrowdStrike update previously crippled Linux systems, but it went unnoticed  NewsBytes

OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 debuted as stable today for this rolling release model of OpenMandriva. With the new release comes the transition to the KDE Plasma 6 desktop but the OpenMandriva developers aren't yet comfortable enough to use Wayland by default and thus the X11 session is preferred...

OpenELA Liberates Red Hat Enterprise Linux Source Code  The New Stack

OpenELA Liberates Red Hat Enterprise Linux Source Code  The New Stack

Greg Kroah-Hartman on Friday sent out all of the USB/Thunderbolt subsystem feature updates destined for the Linux 6.11 kernel of which there are many different patches across the board...

USB & Thunderbolt Improvements Land In Linux 6.11  Phoronix

The crypto subsystem updates have landed for the Linux 6.11 kernel...

AVX-512/AVX10 & VAES Optimized AES-GCM Implementation Lands In Linux 6.11  Phoronix