Open-source News

Apple Introduces Containerization Feature for Seamless Kali Linux Integration on macOS  gbhackers.com

One Year in With My Kubuntu Laptop, Here's What I've Learned  How-To Geek

The kernel locking changes submitted today for Linux 6.17 contain a temporary change worth discussion for yielding a 10x speed-up of a particular function call and as part of that yielding less network egress downtime until a better solution is developed...

Auto-Color Backdoor: How Darktrace Thwarted a Stealthy Linux Intrusion  Darktrace

For those shopping for a Linux friendly laptop powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" with Zen 5 cores and integrated Radeon graphics plus allowing up to 128GB of RAM, the 15.3-inch InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 was announced this morning...

TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Laptop Announced - Powered By AMD Strix Point  Phoronix

A Linux migration tool could make ditching Windows a breeze  Windows Central

The CRC32C cyclic redundancy check code path within the Linux kernel for error detection is much, much faster with the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel when running on modern Intel and AMD AVX-512 processors...

Huge Speedups For CRC32C With Modern AVX-512 CPUs Merged To Linux 6.17  Phoronix

In addition to the VFS changes merrged yesterday for allowing multi-device file-systems to better cope with losing a disk, another notable change as part of the VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 allows more efficiently zeroing out a range on modern NVMe SSDs or SCSI drives...

Linux 6.16 Released with Performance and Networking Enhancements  gbhackers.com

Apple's New Containerization Feature Allows Kali Linux Integration on macOS  CyberSecurityNews

Merged on Monday were the EROFS file-system updates for Linux 6.17. EROFS continues to be a common read-only file-system choice for some mobile/embedded devices as well as container use-cases...

EROFS Metadata Compression Lands Plus A ~2.5x Speedup For Reading Directories  Phoronix

Gunra Ransomware Group Unveils Efficient Linux Variant  Trend Micro

Download Todoist (free) for Windows, macOS, Android, APK, iOS, Linux and Web App  Gizmodo

Linux 6.16 brings faster file systems, improved confidential memory support, and more Rust support  ZDNET

MSI Claw A8 Gaming Performance Review : RYZEN Z2 Extreme  Geeky Gadgets

Linux 6.17 Will Let Multi-Device Filesystems Better Cope With Losing A Disk  Phoronix

The VFS changes were merged a short time ago to the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel. Among the notable changes there is a patch that will allow file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs to better handle losing a disk in their built-in RAID/multi-device capabilities...