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Libreboot 20230319 Released With ThinkPad T530/W530 Support

Phoronix - Sun, 03/19/2023 - 22:20
Libreboot 20230319 has been released as the downstream of Coreboot focused on providing only pure open-source firmware replacements to proprietary BIOS/UEFI platforms compared to all the blobs permitted in upstream Coreboot...

Linux 6.3-rc3 Adding Protection From Malicious Guests Hammering AMD's Secure Processor

Phoronix - Sun, 03/19/2023 - 21:42
A change sent in this Sunday ahead of the Linux 6.3-rc3 release is a late addition adding a throttling mechanism to protect the hypervisor from potentially malicious AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) guests. The change is to protect the AMD Secure Processor from being potentially overloaded with requests by nefarious guest VMs...

Serpent OS Build Infrastructure Launched

Phoronix - Sun, 03/19/2023 - 21:20
Serpent OS as the new Linux distribution project by Solus Linux founder Ikey Doherty has made public its build infrastructure as it begins building more packages and opening up packaging work to outside contributors...

FreeBSD 13.2-RC3 Released With OpenSSH 9.3, Major Performance Fix For Makefs

Phoronix - Sun, 03/19/2023 - 21:01
The third and potentially last release candidate of FreeBSD 13.2 is now available for testing ahead of the planned stable 13.2-RELEASE around the end of March...

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