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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Year 2023, Round 56
Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Thursday, 2 November 2023, at approximately 17:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Wednesday (depending on your time zone).
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Originally Posted by cwizardone
There is a good chance this will be the next Long Term Service kernel, but 6.7 just might be ready by the end of the year. We will have to wait and see what develops. ...........
This is pure speculation on my part, but if, if the next LTS kernel turns out to be 6.7, this might be the reason why,
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Linux 6.7 GPU Drivers: Intel Meteor Lake Stable & AMD Works On Upcoming Hardware
By Michael Larabel. 31 October 2023.
Sent out this morning was the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) feature pull request of updated graphics/display drivers for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel. Notable this round is Intel Meteor Lake integrated graphics now being considered stable / enabled out-of-the-box, Intel Lunar Lake graphics support has started to get underway, and AMD continues working on their upcoming hardware platforms.
Ahead of Meteor Lake laptops launching in December, Intel graphics driver engineers have declared their Meteor Lake open-source graphics support stable........
Thanks, I'll just drop this commit and wait for someone who cares about riscv, and 6.5.y (it's only going to be alive for another few weeks), to resend the needed changes.
Linux 6.7 Introduces "make hardening.config" To Help Build A Hardened Kernel
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The hardening updates for the Linux 6.7 kernel bring a new hardening configuration
profile to help in building a security hardened kernel with some sane defaults.
Distribution: VM Host: Slackware-current, VM Guests: Artix, Venom, antiX, Gentoo, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenIndiana
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Originally Posted by marav
Linux 6.7 Introduces "make hardening.config" To Help Build A Hardened Kernel
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The hardening updates for the Linux 6.7 kernel bring a new hardening configuration
profile to help in building a security hardened kernel with some sane defaults.
There are only few options that would inconvenience only laptop user e.g sleep states, hibernation, bluetooth, usb. One option that will crash kernel in the (any slightest) attempt of modifying running kernel e.g. external modules. Aside from that all is plain available. Still better option is https://github.com/anthraxx/linux-hardened
for anyone interested: anthraxx is Arch Linux maintainer and his kernel is a part of Arch Linux. Works great on Slackware for many years now
Still it would be nice to have an option of hardenned gcc, malloc. I guess not enough interest.
There is nice test for enabled hardening options in kernel. Default Slackware kernel looks pretty bad (understandable for initial installation step). However recent changes in kernel handling that I noticed do not bode well for getting hardened kernel in Slackware
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Year 2023, Round 57
Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Wednesday, 8 November 2023, at approximately 14:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Tuesday (depending on your time zone).
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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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The first release candidate for the 6.7 kernel is due out today and here is a review of what is "new and exciting."
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The Linux 6.7 Merge Window Is Massive With Many New Features
By Michael Larabel. 12 November 2023.
The Linux 6.7 merge window has been downright exciting with additions like Nouveau GSP support and the Bcachefs file-system being added. It's also been downright massive as one of the largest merge windows in recent history in terms of code changes. Here's some statistics of the Linux 6.7 merge window ahead of today's Linux 6.7-rc1 release............
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