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Fedora 39 Wants To Ensure Your ESP Is Big Enough

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 April, 2023

The latest feature planning around Fedora 39 for releasing later this year is around ensuring your EFI System Partition (ESP) is large enough for new functionality moving forward...

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Git 2.40.1 & Other Updates Due To Three New Security Vulnerabilities

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 April, 2023

Git 2.40.1 is out today due to three new security vulnerabilities being disclosed. Due to those security fixes there are also Git updates for prior stable series with v2.39.3, v2.38.5, v2.37.7, v2.36.6, v2.35.8, v2.34.8, v2.33.8, v2.32.7, v2.31.8, and v2.30.9...

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Intel Submits Long-Awaited Shadow Stack Support For Linux 6.4

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 April, 2023

While Intel Shadow Stack support has been around since Tiger Lake CPUs as part of Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET), finally for the Linux 6.4 kernel is this security feature being enabled with the mainline Linux kernel...

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Linux 6.3-rc3 Released: It's "Fairly Big"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March, 2023

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.3-rc3 as the latest weekly test candidate for the in-development Linux 6.3 kernel that is slated to debut as stable toward the end of April...

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Libreboot 20230319 Released With ThinkPad T530/W530 Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March, 2023

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...

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

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March, 2023

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...

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Serpent OS Build Infrastructure Launched

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March, 2023

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...

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

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March, 2023

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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AMD P-State Guided Autonomous Mode Coming For Linux 6.4

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 March, 2023

While Linux 6.3 adds AMD P-State EPP as the "Energy Performance Preference" mode for enhancing the power/performance on recent Ryzen and EPYC systems on Linux, with Linux 6.4 the P-State Guided Autonomous Mode is coming to round out AMD's current CPU frequency scaling driver efforts...