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How files in Linux work « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!  Adafruit Blog

SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux High Availability and Disaster Recovery Training Now Available On-Demand on Udemy  GlobeNewswire

SIOS LifeKeeper for Linux High Availability and Disaster Recovery Training Now Available On-Demand on Udemy  Yahoo Finance

Linux on Bitcoin? Open-source framework BitVMX envisions BTC-powered programs  Cointelegraph

Linux on Bitcoin? Open-source framework BitVMX envisions BTC-powered programs  TradingView

Polychromatic 0.9 OpenRazer GUI Frontend Released With Port To PyQt6  Phoronix

TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 Released For A Wonderful NAS Platform  Phoronix

RDNA 3+ edges closer as AMD hints at refreshed GPU architecture in its Linux firmware  PC Gamer

Flathub for Linux apps has been given quite the makeover  GamingOnLinux

Slimbook Fedora 2 laptop available in 14" and 16" with Fedora Linux 40  Notebookcheck.net

Fedora 40 Linux distribution officially released - NotebookCheck.net News  Notebookcheck.net

Ubuntu 24.04 Release Date Set for April 25, 2024  OMG! Ubuntu!

Strengthening Linux Security by Auditing with OpenSCAP  Linux Journal

Fedora Linux 40 brings GNOME 46, Linux 6.8, and other updates  Liliputing

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: There's a new Linux distro on the scene today, and it's a bit specialized. Its development was led by the automotive electronics supplier Elektrobit, and it's the first open source OS that complies with the automotive industry's functional safety requirements. [...] With Elektrobit's EB corbos Linux for Safety Applications (that sure is a long name), there's an open source Linux distro that finally fits the bill, having just been given the thumbs up by the German organization TUV Nord. (It also complies with the IEC 61508 standard for safety applications.) "The beauty of our concept is that you don't even need to safety-qualify Linux itself," said Moritz Neukirchner, a senior director at Elektrobit overseeing SDVs. Instead, an external safety monitor runs in a hypervisor, intercepting and validating kernel actions. "When you look at how safety is typically being done, look at communication -- you don't safety-certify the communication specs or Ethernet stack, but you do a checker library on top, and you have a hardware anchor for checking down below, and you insure it end to end but take everything in between out of the certification path. And we have now created a concept that allows us to do exactly that for an operating system," Neukirchner told me. "So in the end, since we take Linux out of the certification path and make it usable in a safety-related context, we don't have any problems in keeping up to speed with the developer community," he explained. "Because if you start it off and say, 'Well, we're going to do Linux as a one-shot for safety,' you're going to have the next five patches and you're off [schedule] again, especially with the security regulation that's now getting toward effect now, starting in July with the UNECE R155 that requires continuous cybersecurity management vulnerability scanning for all software that ends up in the vehicle." "In the end, we see roughly 4,000 kernel security patches within eight years for Linux. And this is the kind of challenge that you're being put up to if you want to participate in that speed of innovation of an open source community as rich as that of Linux and now want to combine this with safety-related applications," Neukirchner said. Elektrobit developed EB corbos Linux for Safety Applications together with Canonical, and together they will share the maintenance of keeping it compliant with safety requirements over time.

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Fedora 40 is now available and includes more spins than ever before  ZDNet

Pour one out for the Linux homies: Fedora 40 released  BetaNews

EndeavourOS Gemini Lands with the KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment  9to5Linux

Intel Has Many Improvements For The Xe Graphics Driver In Linux 6.10  Phoronix

prisoninmate writes: Fedora Linux 40 distribution has been officially released -- powered by the latest Linux 6.8 kernel series, and featuring the GNOME 46 and KDE Plasma 6 desktop environments, reports 9to5Linux: "Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.8 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 40 release ships with the GNOME 46 desktop environment for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition and the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment for the Fedora KDE Spin, which defaults to the Wayland session as the X11 session was completely removed." "Fedora Linux 40 also includes some interesting package management changes, such as dropping Delta RPMs and disabling support in the default configuration of DNF / DNF5. It also changes the DNF behavior to no longer download filelists by default. However, this release doesn't ship with the long-awaited DNF5 package manager. For AMD GPUs, Fedora Linux 40 ships with AMD ROCm 6.0 as the latest release of AMD's software optimized for AI and HPC workload performance, which enables support for the newest flagship AMD Instinct MI300A and MI300X datacenter GPUs."

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