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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Intel Thread Director Virtualization Patches Boost Some Workloads By ~14% (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With this Intel Thread Director Virtualization to ensure the VM can properly manage task placement between P and E cores, the feature ended up yielding around 14% better performance than the status quo. That 14% win was with the 3DMark benchmark running on a Windows VM.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You forgot to mention the glibc/syslog backdoor discovered

https://www.securityweek.com/severe-glibc-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-impacts-major-linux-distributions/

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Was it really a backdoor?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Backdoor implies it was deliberately put there. Looking at the CVE it does not seem intentional so just an exploit.