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TerraMaster D8 Hybrid lets you easily add tons of storage to Windows, macOS, and Linux computers  BetaNews

Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet today sent out his feature pull request of all the new file-system code that is ready in time for the Linux 6.10 merge window...

Bcachefs Brings Safety Improvements To Linux 6.10, Preps For Online Fsck  Phoronix

How to Setup a Multi-GPU Linux Machine for Deep Learning in 2024  Towards Data Science

Latest Manjaro Linux 24.0 "Wynsdey" Available For Download  Fossbytes

North Korea-linked Kimsuky used a new Linux backdoor in recent attacks  Security Affairs

Released over a year ago was Golang 1.20 with support for Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) and has since been improved with Go 1.21 for 2~7% faster Go binaries thanks to this optimization approach also found with other compilers. The engineers at Cloudflare have put out a blog post this week praising Go's PGO support and the CPU savings they are seeing as a result...

While EROFS is seeing Zstd support and Bcachefs is seeing performance optimizations with the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel, over on the mature EXT4 file-system side the changes are mostly small. There are some minor changes, more folio conversion work, and also adding support for the FS_IOC_GETFSSYSFSPATH ioctl that has been seeing some standardization and adoption by the common Linux file-systems...

EXT4 In Linux 6.10 Adds FS_IOC_GETFSSYSFSPATH Support  Phoronix

Mac gaming could soon be a contender against Windows and Linux  Sportskeeda

A Linux patch has been posted for delivering a quirk so that the Bigscreen Beyond VR Headset can properly behave under Linux and in turn also jives with the likes of SteamVR...

Linux Patch Posted For The Bigscreen Beyond VR Headset  Phoronix

Alongside all of the other pull requests by Ingo Molnar submitted at the start of the week during the opening of the Linux 6.10 merge window were the scheduler updates. As usual, the kernel scheduler work continues to see various tweaks and refinements to enhance its behavior...

Linux's Turbostat utility that is developed by Intel for reporting idle/power state statistics, temperatures, and other useful data on modern Intel/AMD processors has seen its changes submitted for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel...

Turbostat Gains New Features & New Hardware Support With Linux 6.10  Phoronix

Kernels shipped by Linux vendors 'less secure than upstream stable offering'  iTWire

Tenable finds old Linux malware now targeting Tomcat servers  iTWire

MX-23.3 'Libretto' Released: Setting New Linux Distro Standards  Fossbytes

Podcast #773 - AMD Ryzen 8000 F-Series CPUs, Linux on Snapdragon X Elite, VMWare Goes Free, Zero Day for ...  PC Perspective

SUSE/openSUSE has been busy crafting a next-gen Linux installer that is a web-based installer and originally known as D-Installer but now going by the name Agama...