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Linux 6.10 To Correct The CCD/CCX Topology Information For Some AMD CPUs  Phoronix

Adding to the Linux 6.9 features one of the changes that went under my radar is that the s390 kernel builds can now be carried out using the full LLVM compiler stack...

Linux 6.9 To Allow Building s390 Kernel With The Full LLVM/Clang Compiler  Phoronix

Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux distribution project is hoping to be able to ship their pre-Alpha ISOs in a matter of weeks as they continue bringing up the initial desktop experience and getting more of their operating system's build tools into good shape...

Serpent OS Hopes To Ship Pre-Alpha ISOs In The Coming Weeks  Phoronix

Cyber Security Headlines: AT&T data leak, Linux backdoor discovery, DHS phone data policy  CISO Series

Project Bluefin and the future of operating systems  InfoWorld

xz Utils backdoor: A close call for Linux systems  DIGIT.FYI

OpenNebula Systems joins the Linux Foundation’s Project Sylva  EIN News

KDE's New Note-Taking App for Linux is Here!  It's FOSS News

CISA sounds alarm on deep-seated vulnerability in Linux tool  Nextgov/FCW

Amazon EKS-Optimized Amazon Linux 2023 AMIs Now Available  AWS Blog

What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world  Ars Technica

GTA 5 Could Unofficially Be Ported to Android, Nintendo Switch and Linux, Leak Shows  Gadgets 360

With Q1'2024 in the books, here is a look back at the most popular Linux/open-source content on Phoronix for the past quarter. During Q1 were 754 original news articles written by your's truly along with another 43 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Here's what attracted the most interest from those nearly 800 articles for the past three months...

DinodasRAT Linux Malware Attack on Linux Servers to Gain Backdoor Access  GBHackers

Linux XZ Utils Supply Chain Attack—What You Should Know  WebProNews

It was discovered that a malicious backdoor was installed in the built-in compression tool 'XZ Utils' of Linux distributions ...  GIGAZINE（ギガジン）

Latest Arch Linux ISO Release Brings Linux Kernel 6.8, Updated Installer  9to5Linux

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.9-rc2 as the newest test release of Linux 6.9 that will be out as stable in mid-May...