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It turns out that Ubuntu Linux installations of Ubuntu 23.04, 22.04.3 LTS, and installs done since April 2023 that accepted the Snap version update haven't been following Ubuntu's own recommended security best practices for their security pocket configuration for packages

Red Hat multimedia expert Wim Taymans has released PipeWire 0.3.80 as the newest version of this open-source solution for efficiently handling video and audio streams on the Linux desktop.

One of the nifty new features with Intel Xeon Scalable 'Sapphire Rapids' processors not talked about much is the In-Field Scan (IFS) functionality for allowing various tests to be carried out prior to deploy the new processors or over time in the data center for trying to spot any silicon-level issues

The past two years AMD's AMDGPU Linux kernel driver has supported Seamless Boot on Van Gogh APUs notably used by Valve's Steam Deck

From my early testing thus far of the Linux 6.6 kernel in its very early state, some of the most impressive gains are happening on AMD's high core count server processors, the EPYC 9754 'Bergamo' in particular is enjoying some stellar improvements for various server workloads on this forthcoming kernel. Following the release of Linux 6.6-rc1, now that the merge window is over like usual it's a matter of beginning to test the new kernel code on a range of hardware.

Back in July Intel announced AVX10 as the future of AVX-512 and how they ultimately plan to support more Advanced Vector Extensions capabilities on both future P and E cores

The Linux kernel currently allows disabling support for 32-bit programs and 32-bit system calls at compile-time, but a new option expected to be introduced with Linux 6.7 this winter will provide a new 'ia32_emulation' boot time option to allow unconditionally disabling support for 32-bit programs and system calls.

PostgreSQL 16 released today as a very exciting update for this popular open-source SQL server.

The sdl12-compat project is an interesting effort to allow for aging software and games targeting the SDL 1.2 APIs to work atop this compatibility layer so it in turn runs atop the SDL2 libraries

During the Linux 6.6 merge window a pull request submitted the new 'GenPD' subsystem