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      Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver

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

    The Linux 6.6 modules infrastructure is changing to better protect against the illicit behavior of NVIDIA's proprietary kernel driver...
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      XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.17.1 Released With Accent Color Support

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

    XDG-Desktop-Portal as the portal front-end for Flatpaks is out with a new development release that brings accent color support to sandboxed desktop apps as well as other new features...
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      GNU Coreutils 9.4 Adds Experimental "--enable-systemd" Option, Faster Split

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

    GNU Coreutils 9.4 is out today as the latest version of this collection of utilities common to GNU/Linux systems and other platforms...
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      Intel Gale Peak, New BPF Features & Other Networking Changes For Linux 6.6

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

    The big set of Linux networking subsystem updates were sent out today for the recently-started Linux 6.6 kernel merge window. There are a number of core networking improvements this cycle, support for various new wired and wireless chipsets, and improvements made to existing Ethernet and WiFi drivers...
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      Linux 6.6 Adding Randomized Kmalloc Caches For Further System Hardening

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

    To help harden the Linux kernel from memory vulnerabilities and in particular heap spraying, set to be merged into the Linux 6.6 kernel is optional support for randomized slab caches for kmalloc() calls...
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      Google Announces C3A Instances Coming, Powered By AmpereOne CPUs

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

    Google is using their NEXT'23 conference today to announce that C3A instances are debuting in private preview form for these new AArch64 VMs powered by AmpereOne processors...
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      Linux 6.6 Lands "Pretty Juicy" IOmap Improvements, Lower Latency With IO_uring

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

    Among the exciting early pull requests to land in the new Linux 6.6 kernel cycle are some nice improvements to the IOmap code that should yield some substantive I/O benefits with this new kernel...
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      ClamAV 1.2 Now Extracts UDF Partitions, New systemd Timer

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

    ClamAV 1.2 was released on Monday as the newest version of this open-source, cross-platform anti-virus engine currently maintained by Cisco Systems...
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      EEVDF Scheduler Merged For Linux 6.6, Intel Hybrid Cluster Scheduling Re-Introduced

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

    The EEVDF scheduler code has been merged for the in-development Linux 6.6 kernel. EEVDF replaces the existing CFS scheduler code. There is the likelihood of some performance regressions initially though but the developers will be working to address them as they arise. Additionally, this scheduler pull also re-introduces cluster scheduling for Intel Core hybrid processors...