Hacker News with Generative AI: Linux

Linux 6.13 Supports Ultra Capacity SD Cards "SDUC" for 2 to 128 TB Storage (phoronix.com)
Linux 6.13 has merged support for the Secure Digital Ultra Capacity "SDUC" standard for 2TB to 128TB storage capacity SD cards.

Linux, Operating Systems, Storage, Hardware, Technology

8 points by unsnap_biceps 6 hours ago | 1 comments

Ubuntu Linux impacted by decade-old 'needrestart' flaw that gives root (bleepingcomputer.com)
Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities have been discovered in the needrestart utility used by Ubuntu Linux, which was introduced over 10 years ago in version 21.04.

Security, Ubuntu, Linux, Vulnerabilities

12 points by gregjor 9 hours ago | 4 comments

Webvm: Virtual Machine for the Web (github.com/leaningtech)
This repository hosts the source code for https://webvm.io, a Linux virtual machine that runs in your browser.

Virtual Machines, Web Development, Open Source, Linux, Browsers

198 points by thunderbong 1 day ago | 53 comments

The Debian Project Mourns the Loss of JéRémy Bobbio (Lunar) (debian.org)
The Debian Project sadly shares the news of the passing of Jérémy Bobbio (Lunar) on Friday, November 8, 2024.

Debian, Linux, Open Source, Community, News

33 points by mpitt 2 days ago | 1 comments

Red Hat and Microsoft Bringing RHEL to WSL (phoronix.com)
The latest Linux distribution being brought to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Microsoft's blessing is none other than Red Hat Enterprise Linux... Microsoft and Red Hat jointly announced today that RHEL is coming to WSL.

Linux, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Red Hat, WSL

62 points by mikece 2 days ago | 47 comments

Bcachefs Brings Self-Healing Work and Better Reflink Repair for Linux 6.13 (phoronix.com)
Bcachefs has now joined the party of various kernel components sending in preemptive pull requests ahead of the Linux 6.13 merge window that is expected to open following the expected Linux 6.12 release on Sunday.

Linux, Operating Systems, Software, File Systems

12 points by voxadam 2 days ago | 0 comments

Dumping Keys from the Linux Key Retention Service (ivision.com)
On May 22, 2022, the Kernel Key Retention Service (KKRS) was released as part of Linux 5.18. This introduced an in-kernel key management and retention feature, which provided a secure method for storing secrets on Linux systems.

Linux, Security, Key Management, Operating Systems

4 points by almostjson 2 days ago | 0 comments

Think about switching to Linux (Andrea Borman) [video] (youtube.com)

Linux, Operating Systems, Technology, Video

7 points by rob 2 days ago | 4 comments

AAA Linux Gaming on ARM64 Mac Hardware, Now a Reality (boilingsteam.com)
Things are moving fast for Asahi Linux, the Linux distribution for ARM64-based Macs, and just last month there was a long post from Rosenzweig about the fact that AAA gaming is now at reach on the M1 ARM64 hardware from Apple.

Linux, Gaming, Apple, Hardware, Operating Systems

8 points by ekianjo 2 days ago | 4 comments

Ubuntu Praises 5~7% PGO Compiler Optimization Performance Benefits (phoronix.com)
Over the past year we have seen Canonical engineers focus more on optimizing the performance potential of Ubuntu Linux.

Ubuntu, Linux, Compiler Optimization, Performance, Operating Systems

14 points by sandwichsphinx 2 days ago | 2 comments

mesg(1) and write(1) no longer provided by Debian util-linux (debian.org)
Chatting is hopefully done using more security facilities, not by overwriting each other's terminal state anymore.

Security, Linux, Debian, Utilities, Software

5 points by greyface- 2 days ago | 0 comments

Thanks, Linus. Torvalds patch improves Linux performance by 2.6% (theregister.com)
A relatively tiny code change by penguin premier Linus Torvalds is making a measurable improvement to Linux's multithreaded performance.

Linux, Performance, Operating Systems, Software, Patches

14 points by sampo 3 days ago | 0 comments

A Second Search for Bash Scripting Alternatives (monzool.net)
SHELL SCRIPTING IS something most programmers will encounter often – especially if doing dev-ops, automation and general Linux work. Unfortunately we are mostly stuck with bash. There surely must be better alternatives…

Bash Scripting, Shell Scripting, Programming, Automation, Linux

21 points by thunderbong 3 days ago | 41 comments

Linux Kernel 6.12 Has Landed – and It's a Big One (omgubuntu.co.uk)
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux kernel 6.12, and an eclectic assortment of changes contained within make it one of the most biggest kernel releases for a while.

Linux, Kernel, Software Releases, Open Source

11 points by signa11 3 days ago | 2 comments

Linux kernel 6.12 has been released (lwn.net)
Linus has released the 6.12 kernel.

Linux, Operating Systems, New Releases

147 points by nitinreddy88 3 days ago | 38 comments

Pi-sized x86_64 Devlopment board (interfacinglinux.com)
Back in July, Radxa released a little block of pi-shaped madness containing NVMe storage, 2.5 Gigabit ethernet, and an Intel Alder Lake N100 CPU for under $100.

Hardware, Development Boards, Linux

20 points by Venn1 3 days ago | 0 comments

Linux Fixes Hosts Randomly Rebooting During Virtualization with Ryzen 7000/8000 (phoronix.com)
Ahead of the Linux 6.12 kernel release expected today there is a last minute "x86/urgent" pull request.

Linux, Virtualization, Ryzen, Kernel, Hardware

4 points by LinuxBender 3 days ago | 3 comments

Linux 6.12 Released with Real-Time Capabilities, Sched_Ext, AMD RDNA4 and More (phoronix.com)
As expected, minutes ago Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.12 kernel as stable. Linux 6.12 brings many new features, new hardware support, and is rounded out by the fact of expected to become this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version.

Linux, Kernel, Hardware, Software, Real-time

10 points by sandwichsphinx 3 days ago | 1 comments

OpenWrt: Major Change Notice: New Package Manager (openwrt.org)

OpenWrt, Linux, Software, Networking

24 points by sam42 4 days ago | 3 comments

Bpftune uses BPF to auto-tune Linux systems (github.com/oracle)

Linux, Performance Tuning, BPF, Operating Systems, Open Source

256 points by BSDobelix 4 days ago | 73 comments

Getting Docker to not suck for Development (taylormadetech.dev)
The short, sharp, and shiny of it all is docker containers usually run as root, so when you mount your local file system to it, it writes files as root to your machine. This bugs me and causes issues. The fix is to build your docker image with a non-root user that has your UID and GID. You can see my example in this zip file.

Docker, Development, Security, Linux

21 points by aquastorm 5 days ago | 2 comments

Pleasant Debugging with GDB and DDD (begriffs.com)
GDB is an old and ubiquitous debugger for Linux and BSD systems that has extensive language, processor, and binary format support. Its interface is a little cryptic, but learning GDB pays off.

Debugging, Linux, BSD, Tools

101 points by mariuz 6 days ago | 6 comments

National Security Just Called, They Can't See the Email Traffic (mad-scientist.club)
I vividly remember the first time I installed Linux. It was December 25th, 1996, and with tears running down my face, I put a SuSE Linux install disk into the floppy drive. Things were never the same again.

National Security, Cybersecurity, Linux

52 points by nivethan 6 days ago | 14 comments

Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux (github.com/epasveer)
Seer - a gui frontend to gdb for Linux. (Ernie Pasveer epasveer@att.net)

Linux, Debugging, Tools, User Interfaces, Software

375 points by turrini 6 days ago | 190 comments

Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux (blogspot.com)
Yes, here at Old VCR we live in the past, when RISC Unix workstations still ruled the earth like large boxy tentaculous Cthulhus.

Vintage Computing, Linux, Dreamcast, Operating Systems, Retro Computing

163 points by rbanffy 7 days ago | 30 comments

Uncached Buffered IO Is Performing Great, Working Now on Btrfs / EXT4 / XFS (phoronix.com)
As covered last week Linux I/O expert Jens Axboe has been taking a fresh pursuit of uncached buffered I/O for Linux.

Linux, File Systems, Performance, Operating Systems

28 points by LinuxBender 7 days ago | 0 comments

Full upstream support coming for MediaTek's IoT Edge AI Genio platforms (collabora.com)
Today, we are delighted to announce a growing collaboration with MediaTek which will enable Collabora to introduce, improve, and maintain MediaTek's IoT Edge AI Genio platforms upstream, with the goal of fully supporting the official Evaluation Kit (EVK) in Debian as well as other Linux distributions.

IoT, Hardware, Open Source, Linux, AI

12 points by boxerab 7 days ago | 1 comments

Waiting for many things at once with io_uring (mazzo.li)
When doing systems programming we often need to wait for something to happen. Common examples might be waiting for some data to come through a socket or waiting on a lock. We also often want to wait on any of several conditions to become true. A web server might be handling many sockets at once, waiting for any number of them to become readable or writeable.

Systems Programming, Operating Systems, Linux, Networking, I/O

117 points by ashvardanian 7 days ago | 30 comments

WebVM 2.0: A complete Linux Desktop Environment in the browser via WebAssembly (leaningtech.com)
WebVM is a full Linux environment running in the browser, client-side. It is a complete virtual machine, with support for persistent data storage, networking and, as of today’s release, Xorg and complete desktop environments. In an instance of WebVM, everything executes locally within the browser sandbox.

WebAssembly, Virtualization, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Linux

97 points by thunderbong 7 days ago | 44 comments

Apple M4 Mac Mini with macOS vs. Intel / AMD with Ubuntu Linux Performance (phoronix.com)
Apple last week released their latest iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro products powered by their fourth-generation M-series Apple Silicon. The new Mac Mini in particular is interesting for under $600 starting out with the all re-designed Mac Mini with 10-core M4 and now the base model having 16GB of memory.

Hardware, Apple, Linux, Performance, Operating Systems

34 points by 2OEH8eoCRo0 8 days ago | 25 comments