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Linux 7.3 To Make It Easier To Disable Syscall User Dispatch

Phoronix - Wed, 07/08/2026 - 18:40
Introduced to the Linux kernel nearly six years ago was the Syscall User Dispatch feature to help with Linux gaming. Specifically, Syscall User Dispatch was developed to help Windows games run on Linux more efficiently. While it was upstreamed in Linux 5.11 for more efficiently intercepting system calls from Windows software under Wine, now in the name of security there are patches working their way to the mainline kernel to more easily disable it...

Try uutils-coreutils: Rust Alternative to GNU Coreutils

Tecmint - Wed, 07/08/2026 - 14:02
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For years, I never gave GNU coreutils much thought. They’re the standard Linux commands like ls, cp, mv, cat, sort,

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XWayland 24.1.13 Released To Fix Two More Security Issues In The X.Org Codebase

Phoronix - Wed, 07/08/2026 - 09:44
Two more security issues were made public today concerning the X.Org Server codebase and in turn XWayland also being affected...

Unleashing open innovation: How Diebold Nixdorf reimagined global banking on Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat News - Wed, 07/08/2026 - 08:00
At the OpenShift Commons Amsterdam gathering, the premier "Day zero" event for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, the energy was electric, with a session that perfectly captures the spirit of cloud-native transformation.Joerg Meyer, Software Solution Architect at Diebold Nixdorf, took the stage to deliver a compelling presentation titled, "Diebold Nixdorf Breaks the Shackles of Legacy Payments Infrastructure." Meyer shared how this global leader in banking and retail technology is moving away from the rigid constraints of the past to build a high-availability, future-ready payments platform

The new currency of enterprise velocity

Red Hat News - Wed, 07/08/2026 - 08:00
For more than 20 years in this industry, the conversation around enterprise software procurement followed a highly predictable script. An organisation would buy a subscription for an open source solution, lock down a certified version, and effectively try never to touch it again unless something broke. Security updates arrived on a slow, linear cadence. That era is officially over.Frontier AI models have fundamentally changed the game in security patching. Automated tools can surface thousands of vulnerabilities across open source software ecosystems in practically no time. Therefore, the secu

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