Intel Announces It's Shutting Down Clear Linux
The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution. Over the past decade the Clear Linux operating system has shown what's possible with out-of-the-box performance on x86_64 hardware... Not just for Intel platforms but even showing extremely great performance results on AMD x86_64 too. But with the cost-cutting going on at Intel, Clear Linu…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Ends-Clear-Linux
Bypass Kernel Barriers: Fuzzing Linux Kernel in Userspace With LKL
Xuan Xing & Eugene Rodionov gave a talk about fuzzing the Linux kernel interfaces fully in user space using LKL (Linux Kernel Library).
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxmi-2ROYNk
Slides: https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/lssna2025/01/Bypass%20Kernel%20Barriers_%20Fuzzing%20Linux%20Kernel%20in%20Userspace%20with%20LKL.pdf
This graph is the one I'm most excited about: the lifetime of security flaws in Linux is finally starting to get shorter (and the number of fixed flaws continues to rise).
https://hachyderm.io/@LinuxSecSummit@social.kernel.org/114750428620118674
Linus Torvalds Rejects The Idea Of Enabling DAMON By Default In The Linux Kernel
DAMON is a nifty data access monitoring solution for the Linux kernel developed by Amazon and other parties for system monitoring and performance/efficiency optimizations and more. But it's not so ground-breaking that it's worth enabling by default in all Linux kernel builds, Linus Torvalds has decided...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DAMON-By-Default-No
Ticket sales for Kernel Recipes 2025 are now open! The conference will take place from September 22 to 24, 2025, in Paris. The agenda is still in the works, but you can already check out the list of speakers and a few of the topics online.
https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2025/
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