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      sudo & su Being Rewritten In Rust For Memory Safety

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April, 2023

    With the financial backing of Amazon Web Services, sudo and su are being rewritten in the Rust programming language in order to increase the memory safety for the widely relied upon software...
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      More Rust Code Readied For Linux 6.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April, 2023

    On Friday the Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda submitted a pull request of new Rust feature code for the Linux 6.4 kernel...
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      Intel Linear Address Masking "LAM" Merged Into Linux 6.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April, 2023

    Since 2020 Intel engineers have been working on Linear Address Masking (LAM) as a feature similar to Arm's Top Byte Ignore (TBI) for letting user-space store metadata within some bits of pointers without masking it out before use. This can be of use to virtual machines, profiling / sanitizers / tagging, and other applications. The Intel LAM kernel support has finally been merged with Linux 6.4...
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      Debian Installer Bookworm RC2 Released

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April, 2023

    In preparing for releasing Debian 12.0 "Bookworm" in June, out this weekend is the second release candidate of the Debian Installer for this next major Debian Linux release...
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      KDE Ends Out April Continuing Its "Bug Slaughterfest"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April, 2023

    KDE developers this month have been tackling many open bugs as well as seeing the early Plasma 6 development state rough yet usable. In ending out April, they continued their "bug slaughterfest" in whittling away at their open bug count...
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      Wine 8.7 Released With Another 17 Bugs Fixed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April, 2023

    Wine 8.7 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software to enjoy running Windows games and applications across Linux / BSDs / macOS / Chrome OS platforms...
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      Linux 6.4 Goes Ahead And Starts Removing Old PCMCIA Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 April, 2023

    As noted back in March, the plan with Linux 6.4 is to start removing old, unused and unmaintained PCMCIA drivers. As part of that process to begin dropping old PCMCIA/CardBus driver code from the kernel, all of the PCMCIA "char" drivers were on the chopping block. Linus Torvalds pulled in the char/misc changes this week for Linux 6.4 and indeed those drivers are now removed. Meanwhile this pull introduced the new AMD CDX subsystem...
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      Linux 6.4 NFS Server Adds RPC-With-TLS Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 April, 2023

    After the patches had been in development for well more than a year, sent out today for the Linux 6.4 merge window are the NFS server (NFSD) changes that include supporting RPC-with-TLS...
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      Zlib "Next Generation" Preparing Massive Decompression Speed-Up

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 April, 2023

    After being in development for two years, a new beta release of Zlib-ng as the "next generation" data compression library is available with much faster data decompression...