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Linux 6.10 introduces DRM Panic for providing a new panic screen in case of kernel errors and situations where the VT support may be disabled. This new kernel functionality is akin to Windows' Blue Screen of Death or thanks to open-source can be adapted to take on other forms such as a black screen of death and conveying monochrome logos rather than ASCII art. New patches provide for the ability to show QR codes of error messages within the DRM Panic screens...

Linux's DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Sees Patches For QR Code Error Messages  Phoronix

Insecurity Corner Bonanza! Intel, Linux, Cisco And Apple All Unwillingly Participate  PC Perspective

For years Meta/Facebook has been exploring using BOLT with the Linux kernel to optimize the layout of the Linux kernel binary. Since BOLT was upstreamed into LLVM, they've continued work around BOLT'ing the kernel. There is now a public guide for carrying out a BOLT-optimized Linux kernel build and roughly 5% better system performance to expect from such an optimized kernel...

Will Linux's New run0 Command Run sudo Out of Town?  How-To Geek

While CentOS 7 reached end of life a few days ago, CentOS Stream 10 as the future basis of RHEL 10 continues advancing along with other ongoing initiatives in the CentOS Stream space...

Celebrate Independence Day this Fourth of July by switching from Microsoft Windows 11 to Linux  BetaNews

CentOS Stream 10 Taking Shape, Fedora-Flavored Kernels From Kmods SIG  Phoronix

Linux Mint 22 beta sprinkles Cinnamon desktop on Ubuntu  The Register

1. Linux Mint 22 beta sprinkles Cinnamon desktop on Ubuntu  The Register
2. Linux Mint 22 beta arrives - with improved Software Manager, language support, and more  ZDNet
3. Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' gets a Beta release  GamingOnLinux

RISC-V chips will support replacing RAM sticks without powering off the system — hot plugging functionality arriving in ...  Tom's Hardware

"Indirector" Attack Disclosed For Intel Alder Lake & Raptor Lake CPUs  Phoronix

UC San Diego researchers have gone public with Indirector, high-precision branch target injection attacks on the indirect branch predictor. This UCSD security researchers found Indirector impacting recent Intel Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors. Intel believes though that no further mitigations are required...

Two years after originally posting patches for working on Unified Shared Memory (USM) support for OpenMP with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), there is finally an updated patch-set for implementing this shared memory functionality with both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs...

A new Ubuntu utility seeing an uptick in development recently is crypto-config as a means of system-wide cryptography configuration...

A developer somehow got an entire OS running on Google Drive  TechSpot

A developer somehow got an entire OS running on Google Drive  TechSpot

The GNU Hurd team has put out their Q2'2024 status update to outline recent activity around this micro-kernel platform...

The RADV Radeon Vulkan driver in Mesa 24.2-devel has received support for task shaders with the NVIDIA Device Generated Commands "DGC" extension...

A new preview release is available of Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 operating system...