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The Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) updates for the Linux 6.18 kernel allow it to work with Kexec for being able to load and boot into a new kernel from another currently running kernel...

The VFIO subsystem updates were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 6.18 merge window...

FreeBSD 15.0 continues working its way toward a stable release in early December and out today is the fifth alpha release...

Adding to the Linux storage/file-system excitement for Linux 6.18 is enhancements to some of the core FUSE code for supporting file-systems in user-space...

V dnešním díle se podíváme na nové zranitelnosti v Cisco ASA, zneužívanou zranitelnost ve VMware Tools, nový Remote Access Trojan Klopatra a únik dat u americké pojišťovny Allianz Life.

Linuxová distribuce Artix opouští GNOME kvůli závislostem na systemd. Rakouská armáda se zbavuje Microsoft Office a přechází na LibreOffice. Ubuntu Touch 24.04–1.0 je první vydání systému založené na Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

The past several months has seen AMD engineers working on a new RDMA driver for Ionic hardware through which they acquired Pensando a few years ago. That AMD-Pensando Ionic RDMA driver is now part of the upstream Linux 6.18 kernel...

The Direct Rendering Manager "DRM" pull request ended up leading to Linus Torvalds complaining over text and Rust code formatting but in the end he pulled all of these kernel graphics driver updates and also the associated "accel" accelerator subsystem drivers too...

V neděli 5. října probíhá v Praze druhý den letošní konference LinuxDays. Podívejte se, jak vypadá akce, na které můžete navštívit přednášky, workshopy, stánky a potkat řadu nadšených chytrých lidí.

Next year's GCC 16 compiler release is continuing the trend of enhancing the compiler diagnostics support, including new features like optionally outputting compiler error/warning diagnostics to HTML format for better analysis...

The HID changes have been merged for Linux 6.18 and are headlined by initial support in the mainline kernel for haptic touchpad handling...

For benefiting container usage on Linux, support for case-folding / case insensitive files and folder support has been added to OverlayFS...

All of the crypto subsystem changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel...

The Compute Express Link (CXL) changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel...

Týden v KDE a nejen druhá beta Plasmy 6.5.0 a pokroky v KWin pluginu GameController, týden v GNOME #219 a nic nového, Linux 6.18 bude mikrokód CPU Intel starší než květen 2025 považovat za ne-bezpečný.

While Intel FRED was merged back in Linux 6.9 in advance of Intel processors shipping with this Flexible Return Event Delivery functionality, there ended up being a late, incompatible change to the specification as a result of security research into it. For Linux 6.18 those FRED changes have been merged,..

In addition to some Intel Linux kernel drivers being "orphaned" following the corporate restructuring at Intel between developers being laid off and others deciding to pursue opportunities elsewhere, these changes have also led to a number of Intel-related software packages within Debian being orphaned. In turn these Intel packages are also relied on by Ubuntu and other downstream Debian Linux distributions...

The F2FS file-system enhancements have been merged for the Linux 6.18 kernel and include some new performance optimizations...

Cairo-Dock is back after a decade hiatus! From the early 2010's you may remember Cairo-Dock / GLX-Dock as a complementary dock for your Linux desktop. The last time writing about it was the Cairo-Dock 3.4 release in 2014 when it was working toward EGL/Wayland support. Since then it was rather inactive the past decade besides a small 3.5 update one year ago with a few fixes. But out this week is now Cairo-Dock 3.6 with the long-awaited port to Wayland, HiDPI display handling, and other improvements...

The IOMMU driver changes were merged this week for Linux 6.18 with new material to benefit Intel, AMD, Apple, and RISC-V systems...