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Run Mainline Linux on $5 Hardware
Uros Popovic looks to run mainline Linux on $5 dollar hardware (well, if it’s the board above, $11.70). The Lichee Nano is an SD card sized Linux development board powered by an Allwinner F1C100s ARM9 processor. We’ll look at a fairly minimal set up that should run the latest mainline Linux. I’ve previously written about… Read more
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New Spectre v2 Attacks Linux and Intel CPUs
Researchers have demonstrated the “first native Spectre v2 exploit” for a new speculative execution side-channel flaw that impacts Linux systems running on many modern Intel processors. Spectre V2 is a new variant of the original Spectre attack discovered by a team of researchers at the VUSec group from VU Amsterdam. The researchers also released a… Read more
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EndeavourOS ARM Discontinued
I’m sorry to share some very sad news today. According to a new official blog post, EndeavourOS ARM has been discontinued. This loss is not just tragic because of its negative impact on the ARM Linux community but also for what it represents in the broader open-source ecosystem. EndeavourOS, a popular Linux distribution, expanded its… Read more
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Linux Foundation gets support for alt-Redis
Linux Foundation marshals support for open source alternative to Redis. This follows the vendor’s decision to overhaul licensing of the popular cache database. Cloud giants AWS, Google, and Oracle have come out in support of a Linux Foundation open source fork of Redis, the popular in-memory database frequently used as a cache, following changes to… Read more
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Intel QAT Driver Preps Live Migration Support For 6.10
Written by Michael Larabel in Intel on 4 April 2024 at 06:13 AM EDT Queued up recently into the crypto subsystem’s development branch ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window is support for VFIO live migration with Intel’s QuickAssist Technology (QAT) driver. Intel QAT can be very useful for accelerating compression and encryption with supported… Read more
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German State Moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice
Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government. As reported on the homepage of the Minister-President: The term digital sovereignty is… Read more
