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For more than one year Arm engineers have been working on Guarded Control Stack "GCS" support for the Linux kernel as a means of protecting against return-oriented programming (ROP) sttacks with modern AArch64 processors. It looks like for Linux 6.13 this Arm GCS support will be ready for upstreaming...

Arm's Guarded Control Stack "GCS" Support Looks Like It Will Be Ready For Linux 6.13  Phoronix

‘Rocky Linux from CIQ’ Arrives, Built for Enterprises with Compliance Requirements for Indemnification, Security SLOs  Telecom Reseller

CIQ Releases Enterprise-Grade Rocky Linux with Security and Compliance Features  HPCwire

openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 Launches with Self-Install and Full Disk Encryption Images  9to5Linux

‘Rocky Linux from CIQ’ Launched  insideHPC

'Rocky Linux from CIQ' Arrives, Built for Enterprises with Compliance Requirements for Indemnification, Security SLOs  PR Web

With the Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids benchmarking at Phoronix the past few weeks it's been in a dual socket (2S / 2P) configuration. For those curious about the Intel Xeon 6980P 128-core server performance for a single socket (1S) configuration, here are those complementary results out today and for both DDR5-6400 and MRDIMM-8800 memory configurations. Thus a well-rounded look at the single Xeon 6980P performance compared to other single and dual socket Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC server processors.

Intel's oneAPI Rendering Toolkit with the likes of OSPRay, Embree, OpenVKL, Open Image Denoise, and others has been open-source for years. But it's not been exactly an open-source development model with making it easy for independent contributors to propose code changes. But Intel has now decided to make these projects more like traditional open-source projects and welcoming community contributions -- including from different hardware vendors...

Tails 6.8 Introduces File System Repair When Unlocking Persistent Storage  9to5Linux

Linux creator complains about developers who write commits incorrectly on GitHub  Mezha.Media

ZOOM Platform store announces new tool to run Windows games on Linux with Proton  GamingOnLinux

Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good  The Register

Space Marine 2 fixes online for Steam Deck but may need launch option on desktop Linux  GamingOnLinux

Gamescope gets improved ROG Ally support hinting at more progress for SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

Why Desktop Linux Matters, Even If (Almost) No One Uses It  How-To Geek

KDE Plasma 6.2 is now available as the latest refinement to the modern Plasma 6 desktop environment...

KDE Plasma 6.2 Desktop Environment Officially Released, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Merged as part of last week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) graphics/display driver fixes for Linux 6.12-rc2 are a few performance tuning updates for Intel Xe2 graphics to benefit the recently released Core Ultra 200 Series "Lunar Lake" laptops...

A Few Intel Xe2 Graphics Tuning Updates Found In Linux 6.12-rc2  Phoronix