📰 New AF_ALG Restrictions With Linux 7.3 Due To The Security & Maintenance Nightmare

The past few Linux kernel cycles have chipped away at AF_ALG functionality for that interface for user-space programs to access the kernel's internal cryptography API. Linux has been dropping AF_ALG features like zero-copy support and offloading. AF_ALG was quickly deprecated in Linux 7.2 while now for Linux 7.3 it's being further restricted...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-AF-ALG-Restrictions

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📰 Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion” Released with Reproducible Builds, ARM64 Support

Vanilla OS 3 “Reunion” is now available for download based on Debian GNU/Linux and powered by Linux kernel 7.1 and featuring the latest GNOME 50 desktop environment.

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https://9to5linux.com/vanilla-os-3-reunion-released-with-reproducible-builds-arm64-support

📰 Linux ath11k Driver Improvements For Qualcomm WiFi 6 Hardware Yields 7x Lower Latency

A patch series being worked on for the ath11k mainline wireless networking driver for Qualcomm WiFi 6 / 802.11ax chipsets is yielding 7x lower latency or 2.2x throughput at identical latency...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ath11k-7x-Lower-Latency

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📰 Happy 35th Birthday, Linux!

Today is Linux’s 35th birthday so join me in wishing Linux many more awesome years to come and to celebrate its amazing journey.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/happy-35th-birthday-linux

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📰 Lots Of New Audio Hardware Support In Linux 7.3

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE submitted all of the sound feature updates last week for the Linux 7.3 kernel. Besides the continued AI/LLM-generated patch churn, the sound code for Linux 7.3 sees a lot of new hardware support...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Sound

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📰 DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM Still Being Worked On For Intel Xe3P / Nova Lake

The in-development Linux 7.3 kernel is marking Nova Lake Xe3P graphics as stable in being enabled by default and no longer hidden behind the "force probe" flag. While on-by-default, there still are some features that have yet to land like the DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM functionality...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DP-2.1-ALPM-v5

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📰 The Modern NTFS Linux Driver Adds Read Support For Windows System Compression (WOF)

The pull requests for the existing Paragon NTFS3 kernel driver as well as the new modern "NTFS" drivers have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel cycle. Besides bug fixes, most notable among these NTFS file-system drivers are Windows System Compression "WOF" read support for the modern NTFS driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-NTFS-Driver-WOF

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📰 PackageKit 2.0 Is Coming with a Complete API Break After More Than a Decade

PackageKit 2.0 is being planned with a complete interface break, major code cleanup, and a redesigned Linux offline update experience.

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https://linuxiac.com/packagekit-2-0-is-coming-with-a-complete-api-break-after-more-than-a-decade

📰 Lilbits: Framework Laptop 12 gets a Wildcat Lake upgrade, Pine64 halts Linux device production due to RAMageddon

Fairphone is finally bringing a smartphone to the US market. Framework is upgrading its cheapest laptop. And RAMageddon claims another victim. Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web. Pine64 is halting production of Linux devices like the PineTab2 tablet and PineNote E Ink slate due to the DRAM/eMMC shortage, and will .

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https://liliputing.com/lilbits-framework-laptop-12-gets-a-wildcat-lake-upgrade-pine64-halts-linux-device-production-due-to-ramageddon

📰 Wayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"

The PorteuX Linux distribution focused on being a high performance, modular, and minimalist distro took to forking Xfce's xfwm4 window manager into "xfwm4-gl" for OpenGL compositing support. As part of that they developed a window manager / compositor benchmark for evaluating the performance and efficiency of typical operations. Their results are fascinating...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-X11-Performance-PorteuX

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