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The 6 best Linux desktop PCs in 2024  Digital Trends

For confidential computing "CoCo" virtual machines where the VM host is assumed to be un-trusted and aims to be as isolated as possible, RdRand hardware random number generator instructions are one of the limited sources of entropy for guest VMs. Right now RdRand can fail and the CoCo guest VMs will continue to boot albeit with limited or no entropy to see the VM's random number generation. But being merged today as part of x86 fixes for Linux 6.9 is now requiring seeding RNG with RdRand for CoCo environments otherwise a kernel panic...

One of the latest areas being worked on for enabling Rust programming language use within the Linux kernel is for CPU frequency "CPUFreq" scaling drivers...

Rust Bindings Are Being Worked On For Linux CPUFreq Drivers  Phoronix

A new version of the Debian Policy Manual has been published that outlines the policy requirements for Debian around the package archive and various design matters of the platform...

Flipping pages, from userland to godmode Linux Kernel at risk - universal exploit  Red Hot Cyber

German state to move 30,000 PCs from Windows/Office to Linux/LibreOffice  iTWire

One engineer’s curiosity may have saved us from a devastating cyber-attack  The Guardian

Running Windows Apps on Linux Is Easier Than Ever With This One Tool  How-To Geek

Last month I wrote about the V3D kernel graphics driver preparing for 1MB "super pages" support to help boost the performance for this open-source Broadcom DRM driver most notably used by the latest Raspberry Pi single board computers. The latest iteration of these patches have now been posted for supporting both super pages and big pages...

With the recent Mesa 24.1 support for Wayland explicit sync with Vulkan drivers, GNOME merging explicit sync support, Wayland-Protocols 1.34 introducing linux-drm-syncobj, and XWayland explicit sync also nearing the state of being merged, there's been much talk recently about Wayland explicit sync. KDE KWin developer Xaver Hugl has written a detailed blog post for those interested in the topic...

KDE On The Importance Of Wayland Explicit Sync  Phoronix

In addition to KDE's busy week of development work, GNOME developers have also been busy working on features like improving the systemd-homed integration and beginning to work on mock-ups for an OS installer...

KDE developers have had another busy week working on fixes for Plasma 6.0 while simultaneously preparing new features for Plasma 6.1...

Kodi 21.0 “Omega” Open-Source Media Center Is Here with Major Changes  9to5Linux

Canonical Announces Netplan 1.0 with Simultaneous WPA2 and WPA3 Support  9to5Linux

Linux Foundation unveils Redis alternative, 'Valkey', with backing from AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle  ITPro

German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating  Ars Technica

Back in 2022 Cloudflare began talking about replacing Nginx with their own in-house, Rust-written code called Pingora, talked about Pingora more in 2023, and then this past February made this Pingora framework open-source for creating reliable and fast networked systems. Today marks the first official release of Pingora with the v0.1 tag...

This backdoor almost infected Linux everywhere: The XZ Utils close call  ZDNet