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The Servo open-source browser engine originally started by Mozilla has seen renewed development in recent time by Linux Foundation Europe and via developers at firms like Igalia. Last year they drafted plans for focusing on making Servo embed-friendly so that this Rust-written code could be easily leveraged by desktop apps and frameworks. Today more light was shed on this embed initiative and their focus on integrating with Tauri...

For those making use of the AppArmor Linux kernel security module, there is a notable change coming with the Linux 6.8 kernel...

AppArmor Switches To SHA256 Policy Hashes In Linux 6.8  Phoronix

The developers behind the Genode open-source operating system framework have shared their 2024 road-map of new features they hope to accomplish this calendar year...

Genode OS Aiming For Multi-Monitor & Suspend/Resume Support This Year  Phoronix

SparkyLinux 2024.01 Update Debuts With PipeWire and More  It's FOSS News

Following last month's FreeRDP 3.0 release with many improvements for this Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation, FreeRDP 3.2 is out today with a number of fixes -- especially as it pertains to Wayland support...

Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list  Ars Technica

System, global and local Git config files on Windows and Linux  TheServerSide.com

Linux 6.8 Default-Disabling 31-bit Enterprise System Architecture ELF Binary Support  Phoronix

A second batch of s390 architecture changes were sent out today for the ongoing Linux 6.8 merge window...

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Last week Linux creator Linus Torvalds spotted a bad performance regression with the early Linux 6.8 kernel state that was leading to his kernel build times doubling. Since then kernel developers were working on analyzing the issue and devising a fix. A few minutes ago the fix has worked its way into the mainline kernel...

Linux 6.8 Merges Fix For Recent Performance Regression Spotted By Linus Torvalds  Phoronix

Building off this week's release of Wine 9.0 for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms is now Hangover 9.0. Hangover as a reminder is the project based on Wine initially focused on running x86 32-bit Windows apps on AArch64 Linux. Hangover works by running Wine atop various emulators such as QEMU, FEX, or Box64 for handling the processor/ISA translation...

Hangover Aiming For RISC-V Support This Year, x86_64 Emulation  Phoronix

Wine 9.0 Significantly Improves Windows Apps and Games on Linux  How-To Geek

System76 Thelio Major Powered By AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series Performance Review  Phoronix

For those in the market for a high-end Linux workstation for carrying out a lot of code compilation, AI workloads, or other creator or HPC tasks, the new System76 Thelio Major goes on sale today and it's a real winner. I've been trying out the new System76 Thelio Major powered by the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7900 series processors and it delivers excellent Linux performance and all comes nicely working out-of-the-box with their Pop!_OS Linux distribution.

ReiserFS file-system creator Hans Reiser who is currently remains imprisoned in California for murdering his wife in 2006 has commented on the Linux kernel mailing list by way of a letter exchange from prison...