Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18658 · 02.05.2026 г., 19:10
📰 I always tweak my Proxmox host's settings before spinning up a single VM or LXC
Over the last couple of years, I’ve installed Proxmox on PCs of all shapes and sizes, including enterprise-grade servers, dinosaur machines, single-board computers, and gaming laptops. After all, Proxmox’s lightweight nature lets me run this killer platform on anything with an x86 CPU, and since it supports Linux containers and KVM-based virtual machines, I can use my PVE-powered systems as hybrid project-building workstations and self-hosting...
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/i-always-tweak-my-proxmox-hosts-settings/
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18655 · 02.05.2026 г., 17:55
📰 NVIDIA Ships Fixes For Descriptor Heaps, More Vulkan Performance Optimizations
NVIDIA on Friday released the 595.44.06 beta driver build as their newest Vulkan developer beta for Linux. This was joined by the NVIDIA 595.46 Windows Vulkan beta and there are performance improvements in tow and more work on their descriptor heaps support...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-595.44.06-Vulkan-Beta
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18642 · 01.05.2026 г., 12:09
📰 The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
CopyFail threatens multi-tenant servers, CI/CD work flows, Kubernetes containers, and more.
🔗 Source: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/as-the-most-severe-linux-threat-in-years-surfaces-the-world-scrambles/
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18632 · 30.04.2026 г., 19:12
📰 New Linux ‘Copy Fail’ flaw gives hackers root on major distros
An exploit has been published for a local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed "Copy Fail" that impacts Linux kernels released since 2017, allowing an unprivileged local attacker to gain root permissions.
🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-copy-fail-flaw-gives-hackers-root-on-major-distros/
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18628 · 30.04.2026 г., 11:44
📰 CPPC v4 Support Being Worked On NVIDIA For The Linux ACPI Driver
Last year with the ACPI 6.6 specification release came revised Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) support for enhancing the capabilities around this standard for OS management of the performance of CPU cores using an abstract performance scale. That CPPC v4 support is now being worked on for the acpi_cppc Linux driver by NVIDIA engineers...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ACPI-CPPC-v4-Linux
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18625 · 30.04.2026 г., 09:33
📰 New Linux 'Copy Fail' Vulnerability Enables Root Access on Major Distributions
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw that could allow an unprivileged local user to obtain root.The high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-31431 (CVSS score: 7.8) has been codenamed Copy Fail by Xint.io and Theori."An unprivileged local user can write four controlled bytes into the page cache of any readable file on a Linux.
🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/new-linux-copy-fail-vulnerability.html
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18621 · 30.04.2026 г., 06:22
📰 Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root
Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability arising from a logic flaw.…
🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/linux_cryptographic_code_flaw/
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18615 · 29.04.2026 г., 14:35
📰 I moved my entire Linux home directory to a second drive, and nothing broke
Once you separate the roles of OS and personal data, the whole system starts to feel more deliberate.
🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/moved-linux-home-directory-second-drive-nothing-broke/
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18607 · 28.04.2026 г., 19:37
📰 GTK2 Gets an Unofficial Revival Fork for Legacy Linux Apps
A Devuan community developer has launched GTK2-NG, a fork designed to maintain compatibility for legacy GTK2 software on current Linux systems.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/gtk2-gets-an-unofficial-revival-fork-for-legacy-linux-apps/
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18604 · 28.04.2026 г., 17:30
📰 NVIDIA 595.71.05 stable driver released for Linux
A tiny Recommended Driver update arrived for NVIDIA GPU owners on Linux, with version 595.71.05 now available.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/nvidia-595-71-05-stable-driver-released-for-linux/
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18597 · 28.04.2026 г., 10:30
📰7-Zip 26.01 Now Allows Making Use Of Huge Pages On Linux For Faster Compression
7-Zip 26.01 was released on Monday and making this release significant are huge pages support on Linux and some users may be interested in the new options around the path generation mode for the output directory when extracting archives...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/7-Zip-26.01
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Linuxgram 🐧@linuxgram · Post #18593 · 28.04.2026 г., 07:21
📰 Red Hat's Stratis Storage 3.9 Released With Online Encryption/Decryption/Reencryption
It's crazy to realize it has been ten years already since Red Hat abandoned their Btrfs plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and dropped it, which was a technology preview feature since RHEL6. In its place Red Hat engineers began developing Stratis for next-gen Linux storage with ZFS/Btrfs-like features but instead building atop XFS, LUKS, Device Mapper, and Clevis. After a while since the last major release, Stratis Storage 3.9 released today...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Stratis-Storage-3.9-Released
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