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After years being used by Ubuntu Server/Cloud, Ubuntu 23.10 began making use of Canonical's Netplan declarative network configuration software and now Netplan is fully ready to take on all duties with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. After seven years of development, Netplan 1.0 is ready for primetime use from servers to desktops...

The Linux xz Backdoor Episode: An Open Source Mystery  The New Stack

Earlier this week Wine developer Gabriel Ivăncescu with CodeWeavers laid out a great proposal: leveraging AI for assisting with the code review process for more punctual review and upstreaming of patches into the Wine codebase for this software that allows Windows games and apps to run on Linux and other platforms. While great in theory, at this stage just amounted to an April Fools' gag for Wine...

Intel Xeon Max Sees Some Performance Gains For OpenVINO & ONNX With Linux 6.9  Phoronix

Last week being surprised to see a number of AMD EPYC performance gains with Linux 6.9 using that in-development kernel, I was curious about what other platforms may be benefiting from better performance on this kernel that will debut as stable in May. This week I turned to running some fresh benchmarks of Intel Xeon Max using the Supermicro Hyper SuperServer SYS-221H-TNR. More than 230 benchmarks were carried out of Linux 6.8 stable versus Linux 6.9-rc2 in looking for any performance differences.

German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice  The Register

For years the PostgreSQL database server has been adding various JSON features while now the latest addition for dealing with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) structured data is the JSON_TABLE() SQL function...

The Power Profiles Daemon software under the UPower project has released version 0.21 which now is automatically battery-state aware for adjusting the CPU power/performance behavior depending upon whether your Linux laptop is connected to AC or battery power...

UPower Power Profiles Daemon v0.21 Automatically Adapts For Linux Laptop Battery Use  Phoronix

Statcounter: Linux increases desktop market share to 4.05%  Neowin

CVE-2024-3094: XZ Utils Backdoor Threatens Linux Systems  Tanium Endpoint

German state decides to move away from Microsoft to Linux and LibreOffice  Neowin

Discover the New XZ Backdoor Scanner: Your Solution for Implant Detection in Linux Binaries  Medium

Following the release of the Qt 6.7 toolkit earlier this week, released today is the Qt Creator 13 integrated development environment. Qt Creator is the Qt/C++ tailored IDE aimed to help accelerate developer productivity with tight Qt integration and supporting a variety of features...

LLVM's BOLT is an amazing tool for optimizing the layout of binaries and in turn can lead to some mighty useful performance improvements. But now an Arm compiler engineer has taken to leveraging BOLT for creating a binary analysis tool to vet the correctness of security hardening options...

Queued up recently into the crypto subsystem's development branch ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window is support for VFIO live migration with Intel's QuickAssist Technology (QAT) driver...

Intel QAT Driver Preps Live Migration Support For Linux 6.10  Phoronix

Battlefield V now broken on Steam Deck / Linux with EA anticheat live  GamingOnLinux

FOSS Weekly #24.14: Homelab Special Edition (and Discussing XZ Backdoor in Linux)  It's FOSS

An anonymous coder nearly hacked a big chunk of the internet. How worried should we be?  The Conversation Indonesia