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Canonical engineers on Friday announced they are evaluating "-O3" compiler optimized package builds for Ubuntu Linux. As part of this evaluation of using GCC's -O3 compiler optimization level rather than -O2 when compiling Ubuntu packages, experimental Ubuntu desktop and server ISOs are available for testing with this change. Excitingly I ran some initial benchmarks over the weekend in looking at the performance difference.

A one year old merge request to support Wayland's Tearing Control protocol (tearing-control-v1) has finally been merged into the Sway compositor codebase...

Mozilla Firefox 129.0 is now available for download ahead of its formal release announcement on Tuesday. Making Firefox 129 notable is that for non-local sites it's now replacing HTTP with HTTPS by default. Firefox will now aim for HTTPS as the default protocol on non-local sites...

Novel SLUBStick Linux Exploit Gives Attackers Full System Control  Security Boulevard

A three month old merge request finally landed in mainline LLVM Git this past week to deliver improvements initially for Intel Meteor Lake processors...

Vanilla OS Orchid improves on an already brilliant Linux distribution  ZDNet

New Linux kernel cross-cache attack allows arbitrary memory writes  CSO Online

Manjaro Linux Starts Experimenting With An Immutable Offering  It's FOSS News

New SLUBStick Attack Makes Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities More Dangerous  SecurityWeek

How to build a $240 gaming PC  Boing Boing

I Stopped Using Linux for a Year, Here's What Brought Me Back  How-To Geek

The Linux 6.12 kernel cycle later this year is expected to see a number of new Kconfig options introduced for greater build-time control over what CPU speculative execution security mitigations are included as part of the kernel build...

In-step with the GCC compiler beginning to see Intel AVX10.2 support patches, the LLVM Clang 20 Git code is already seeing initial AVX10.2 code merged for this open-source compiler...

New attack on Linux kernel bypasses modern defense  Techzine Europe

ETA Prime builds sub $250 Linux gaming PC  Notebookcheck.net

At Last, Chumby Is Ready  Hackaday

Fractal 8 Released: The Linux Matrix Messaging App Gets Better!  It's FOSS News

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 4th, 2024  9to5Linux

Forget Microsoft Windows 11, Nitrux 3.6.0 should be your next OS  BetaNews

The second weekly release candidate of Linux 6.11 is now available for testing...