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Servo Browser Engine Making Embedded App Progress With Tauri

Phoronix - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 19:52
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...

AppArmor Switches To SHA256 Policy Hashes In Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 19:38
For those making use of the AppArmor Linux kernel security module, there is a notable change coming with the Linux 6.8 kernel...

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

Phoronix - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 19:17
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...

FreeRDP 3.2 Fixes Wayland Client Scaling + Wayland Keyboard Handling Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 19:02
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...

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

Phoronix - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 13:00
A second batch of s390 architecture changes were sent out today for the ongoing Linux 6.8 merge window...

DSH (Distributed Shell) – Run Commands on Multiple Linux Servers

Tecmint - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 12:00
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Systems Administrators are well aware of the importance of being able to monitor and administer numerous machines in a short amount of time, preferably with

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

Phoronix - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 04:18
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...

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

Phoronix - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 02:51
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...

System76 Thelio Major Powered By AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series

Phoronix - Fri, 01/19/2024 - 00:00
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.

Hans Reiser Apologies For Social Mistakes, Comments On ReiserFS Deprecation From Prison

Phoronix - Thu, 01/18/2024 - 23:49
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...

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