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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 21st, 2024  9to5Linux

New Linux Variant of Play Ransomware Targeting VMware ESXi Systems  The Hacker News

New Linux Variant of Play Ransomware Targeting VMWare ESXi Systems  The Hacker News

CrowdStrike has caused PCs to become unable to boot in the past on Linux distributions as well  GIGAZINE（ギガジン）

CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes  The Register

CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes  The Register

CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes  The Register

Back in March were a set of patches to the Linux kernel's XZ embedded compression implementation with the project having switched from public domain to the BSD Zero Clause License along with other changes to update that in-tree code. Since then the notorious XZ backdoor situation was discovered in the upstream XZ project. With those major issues behind, Lasse Collin today sent out an updated set of patches for updating the in-tree XZ code for the Linux kernel...

I installed Kubernetes on my old PC - here’s how I did it  XDA Developers

CrowdStrike also broke Debian and Rocky Linux earlier this year – hackers are taking advantage of Friday's chaos  TechSpot

CrowdStrike also broke Debian and Rocky Linux earlier this year – hackers are taking advantage of Friday's chaos  TechSpot

OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 “ROME” Released with KDE Plasma 6.1 and Linux Kernel 6.10  9to5Linux

OpenMandriva Lx 24.07 “ROME” Released with KDE Plasma 6.1 and Linux Kernel 6.10  9to5Linux

Just prior to the Mesa 24.2 code branching / feature freeze on Thursday, two merge requests landed working on cleaning up some Mesa interfaces and code modernization...

Kees Cook submitted all of the hardening updates this week for the Linux 6.11 merge window in beefing up the kernel's defenses against various attack vectors and vulnerabilities...

Linux 6.11 Hardening Makes FineIBT Default Configurable At Build Time  Phoronix

A change proposal was raised this week for upgrading Fedora's LXQt desktop offering to the recently released LXQt 2.0 for the upcoming Fedora 41 release...

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) updates for Linux 6.11 have been merged and it's a very exciting one for AMD EPYC servers with SEV-SNP guest VM support finally being in the mainline kernel...

Initial AMD SEV-SNP KVM Guest VM Support Merged Into Linux 6.11  Phoronix

Palmer Dabbelt on Saturday sent out the RISC-V architecture updates for the ongoing Linux 6.11 merge window...