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Kernel Credential Guards Merged For Linux 6.19

Phoronix - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 18:50
Merged yesterday for the Linux 6.19 kernel were "substantial" improvements to the kernel's credential infrastructure to provide guard-based management that allows for kernel code simplification and avoiding manual reference counting across many subsystems...

How to Manage Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificates with Certbot Commands

Tecmint - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 14:57
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When someone visits your website, their browser and your server exchange information back and forth. Without encryption, this conversation happens

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Steam On Linux Use Easily Hits An All-Time High In November

Phoronix - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 09:05
The Steam Survey results are out for November 2025 and continue to be very positive for the growing adoption of Linux gaming thanks to the success of the Steam Deck, the underlying Steam Play (Proton) software, and now further excitement thanks to the upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame...

FreeBSD 15.0 Now Officially Available With Many Software Updates, Reproducible Builds

Phoronix - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 08:50
FreeBSD 15.0 is officially released as the newest major update to this leading BSD operating system...

Optimizing cloud spend with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)

Red Hat News - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 08:00
Rising virtualization costs, licensing constraints, and operational complexity are driving teams to evaluate more flexible and cost-effective paths to the cloud. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, combined with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), supports hardware overcommit in the cloud, allowing customers to run more virtual machines (VMs) on fewer cloud resources. By aligning resource consumption more closely to actual usage patterns, organizations can significantly reduce compute costs. This provides a practical way to consolidate VM footprints and maximize the value of cloud investmen

Btrfs In Linux 6.19 Adds Experimental Features, Continues Preparations For FSCRYPT

Phoronix - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 04:47
SUSE engineer David Sterba submitted the Btrfs pull request for Linux 6.19 on Friday, ahead of the Linux 6.18 stable kernel release that took place on Sunday. This copy-on-write file-system continues seeing some enticing feature work and other improvements for this next version of the Linux kernel...

Fedora 44 Granted Approval For A Nicer NTSYNC Experience For Wine & Steam Play

Phoronix - Tue, 12/02/2025 - 03:19
Fedora stakeholders have been eyeing a nicer experience for NTSYNC usage with Wine and Steam Play by being able to have the NTSYNC kernel module load when it's likely to be used. That approval has now been granted by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) for the Fedora 44 release...

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