As enterprise customers are moving into software-defined everything, including compute, storage and networking, new challenges are emerging. And since open source plays a very critical role in today’s stack, it becomes increasingly important for play…
UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is the open, multi-vendor
replacement for the aging BIOS standard, which first appeared in IBM
computers in 1976. The UEFI standard is extensive, covering the full
boot architecture. This article focuses on a single useful but typically
overlooked feature of UEFI: secure boot.
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The 4.4-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. “I don’t think there’s anything particularly exciting, although that obviously depends on whether some particular issue ended up affecting you or not. Most of it is pretty tiny random fixups.”
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The second 4.4 prepatch is out for testing. Linus says: “Things are looking fairly normal in 4.4-land, with no huge surprises in rc2. There were a couple of late features: parisc hugepage support and some late slub bulk allocator patches were not onl…
Encryption and secure communications are critical to our life on the
Internet. Without the ability to authenticate and preserve secrecy, we
cannot engage in commerce, nor can we trust the words of our friends and
colleagues.
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Now that Linux 4.4-rc1 was released this weekend as the first development release towards Linux 4.4 with its many new features, I’m onto benchmarking it at Phoronix for articles looking at the Nouveau Kepler re-clocking changes, Radeon/Intel graphics…
VMware bids for a stake in the container industry with a bold effort to integrate containers with its classic virtualization system.
3ROS attack tool lowers the technical bar so anyone can be an intruder.
The latest Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory (RHAB) informs users of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (RHEL) 5.x and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5.x operating system about a new kernel update that fixes multiple vulnerabilities. According to the kerne…
Dave Chinner has now sent in the XFS file-system updates for the Linux 4.4 kernel…
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Where I differ from other observers is that I don’t think that this problem is in any way unique to Linux or open-source communities. With five years of work in the technology business and 25 years as a technology journalist, I’ve seen this kind of immature boy behavior everywhere.
It’s not Torvalds’ fault. He’s a technical leader with a vision, not a manager. The real problem is that there seems to be no one in the software development universe who can set a supportive tone for teams and communities.
It’s usually not worth mentioning Kconfig changes for each new Linux kernel release, but this time around there is actually new functionality to point out…
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The Washington Post published an article which describes the ongoing tension between the security community and Linux kernel developers. This has been roundly denounced as FUD, with Rob Graham going so far as to claim thatnobody ever attack…
Olof Johansson sent in all of the ARM SoC/platform updates today for the Linux 4.4 kernel merge window…
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The 4.2.6, 4.1.13, 3.14.57, and 3.10.93stable kernel updates have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
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We’re half-way through the Linux 4.4 kernel merge window so here’s a recap of the features that have made it thus far for this next open-source kernel cycle…
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Systemd.conf, the inaugural systemd conference for developers, has successfully concluded in Berlin…
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It doesn’t look like KDBUS will be ready for merging into the mainline Linux kernel anytime soon…
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Martin Jambor at SUSE is looking to begin mainlining the HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) support within the GCC compiler…
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Red Hat’s Paolo Bonzini sent out the KVM updates today for the Linux 4.4 kernel…
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Greg Kroah-Hartman sent in his staging driver patches for the Linux 4.4 kernel on Wednesday…
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Mozilla’s latest browser offers powerful new privacy feature
If attackers are on your system, saving your passwords in a password vault is no protection.
Rafael Wysocki notes that with the power management and ACPI updates for Linux 4.4 there are “quite a [few] features are included this time” for improving Linux power use…
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Trusted Platform Module 2.0 support has been around for a few kernel cycles now and with the forthcoming Linux 4.4 kernel it will be in much better shape…
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