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It's taken until now to add FreeBSD to the X.Org Continuous Integration (CI) automated testing so that all proposed changes to the X.Org Server can now be build-tested on FreeBSD rather than just Linux...

FEX 2409 has been released for this open-source project that's known for allowing x86_64 Linux binaries -- including both games and applications -- to run rather well on AArch64. It's also been working on enabling x86_64 programs on RISC-V but there due to architectural differences it's more of a challenge than with ARM...

Back in 2018 Oracle introduced Libresource as a standardized API for accessing system resource information around memory / network / device statistics and other metrics. Libresource v2 was announced this week as largely a rewrite of the project...

Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules Abused to Create Backdoors  CybersecurityNews

Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules Abused to Create Backdoors  CybersecurityNews

How I Found the Perfect Linux OS and Stopped Distro-Hopping  Yahoo! Voices

PoC Exploit Released for Linux Kernel Vulnerability that Allows Root Access  CybersecurityNews

PoC Exploit Released for Linux Kernel Vulnerability that Allows Root Access  CybersecurityNews

Does ‘Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2’ Run On Steam Deck?  Forbes

Following the recently covered patches on Phoronix that enabled Intel Xe2 graphics out-of-the-box / by-default for Lunar Lake and Battlemage with the Mesa 24.3-devel Git code, Mesa 24.2.2 is out today in stable form that back-ports these Xe2 support changes...

Mesa 24.2.2 Enables Intel Lunar Lake & Battlemage Xe2 Graphics Out-Of-The-Box  Phoronix

KDE e.V. announced the availability today of their annual report for covering 2023. While they made a lot of accomplishments and worked a lot on KDE Plasma 6 development, it was another year they unfortunately operated in the red funding wise...

Chromebooks Might Soon Work Better With External Drives  How-To Geek

Setting up pfSense at home is the best network upgrade I've done  XDA Developers

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI Now Available Across Hybrid Cloud for Gen AI Model Development  Datanami

Dell serves Gen AI-optimized Linux from Red Hat  Blocks & Files

Will Android-OS work more seamlessly (filesharing) with Linux, Win-OS, Apple-OS desktops?  ASEAN NOW

AmpereOne Performance On Linux 6.11 Kernel, 4K vs. 64K Page Size Comparison  Phoronix

Continuing on with the AmpereOne performance benchmarking while having the AmpereOne A192-32X in the lab within a Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD server, the next set of benchmarks is looking at the performance when using the near-final Linux 6.11 kernel. Additionally, quantifying the performance impact of using the ARM64 64K page size kernel as an alternative to the default 4K page size.

Last year to much excitement in our community was the new AMD project announcement of openSIL as an open-source CPU silicon initialization project that is an advancement for open-source firmware and to eventually replace AMD's AGESA across both client and server processors. This week an exciting new update on AMD OpenSIL was shared and that they are still on-track for having it production-ready next year...