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      eCryptfs Sees Fixes For Potential Malicious Intent, Some Dating Back To Its 2006 Debut

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:24

    The eCryptfs stacked cryptographic filesystem implementation for the Linux kernel to transparently encrypt files saw a number of bug fixes for the Linux 7.3 kernel. A number of these bug fixes deal with potential maliciously-crafted data and vulnerable going back to the 2006 introduction of eCryptfs as this option known for its use on Ubuntu home directory encryption and Chrome OS...
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      Redox OS Switches To EEVDF-Based Scheduler For 2.6x Throughput

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    The Rust-written, from-scratch Redox OS operating system has switched to using an EEVDF based scheduler design. In doing so they are promoting a 2.6x increase in throughput and a 782x improvement in fairness...
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      Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Continues Seeing Fixes With Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    In early 2025 it was being discussed to potentially drop the HFS and HFS+ file-system support with the code having been orphaned over a decade and becoming a maintenance burden. But that dismal outlook quickly turned around with some developers stepping up to maintain the old Apple file-system support. Over a year later, fortunately, it's turned out to be a success story with more HFS/HFS+ file-system fixes continuing to work their way into the mainline Linux kernel...
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      Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Steps Down

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    There is a changing of the guard with Linux 7.3 as the maintainer of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) / SMB3 code within the Linux kernel. Longtime maintainer, principal Linux CIFS author, and current Microsoft employee Steve French has stepped down due to health reasons...
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      Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    A reported security vulnerability for the NTFS3 driver has gone unaddressed since being reported earlier this summer. The vulnerability allows a pre-crafted NTFS image on a USB flash drive or similar to allow the user to gain root access to the running Linux system...
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      AMD RDNA 4m Firmware Published For Linux Ahead Of Launch

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    In addition to AMD's Friday afternoon big code drop of all the UALink enablement patches for the Linux kernel and the AMDGPU driver, there was another big drop from AMD to end out the week... Upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository is all the firmware binaries needed by the open-source driver stack for initializing their forthcoming RDNA 4m "GFX 11.7" graphics...
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      NVK Vulkan Video Merged For Mesa 26.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    The newest major feature to land in Mesa's open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver is support for Vulkan Video!..
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      Sched_ext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    The extensible scheduler framework "sched_ext" that allows for custom schedulers as BPF programs has been working on sub-scheduler support in recent kernel cycles. With Linux 7.3, sub-scheduler support is now deemed feature complete...
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      Red Hat's Tuned 2.28 To Improve Out-Of-The-Box WiFi Power Savings On Fedora

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Tuned 2.28 released this Saturday as the newest version of Red Hat's tuning profile delivery mechanism for Linux. Tuned is used notably out-of-the-box on Fedora Linux for monitoring and adaptively tuning systems...