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Epic Games looks for engineer to improve Linux anti-cheat support  VideoCardz.com

Merged yesterday to the GCC Git development codebase for next year's GCC 17 release is the initial infrastructure laying out support for -std=c++29 and the like for targeting the C++29 standard not anticipated for release until around 2029...

As part of improving the experience of FreeBSD on laptops and desktops, FreeBSD developers have updated their drm-kmod port against the state of the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel...

FreeBSD Updates Its Graphics Driver Port From Linux 6.12 LTS  Phoronix

While the AppleTalk networking protocols were innovative when they first appeared for their plug-and-play capabilities, Apple itself ended their AppleTalk support back in 2009. Now 17 years later, the Linux kernel is ending AppleTalk support due to a recent surge of AI-generated patches...

Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support  Phoronix

Malicious apps got into the Arch User Repository - how to protect yourself  ZDNET

Zenless Zone Zero has arrived on Steam and works on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

Linux 7.2 continues seeing a fair amount of storage-related changes from file-systems to the block device code itself, software RAID, the wonderful IO_uring interface, and more. Here is some of the latest feature work that has been merged for Linux 7.2...

Atomic Arch Supply Chain Attack Compromises 1,500 Arch User Repository Packages: Credential-Stealing Malware Targets Arch Linux Systems  Rescana

Windows SprySOCKS Malware: Advanced Kernel-Level Rootkit Targets Government Organizations via Supply Chain Vulnerabilities  Rescana

Linux 7.2 finally drops support for a 44-year-old graphics card  XDA

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Your Linux server’s network is maxed out, and you have no idea what’s eating it, so here’s how to find

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Since the release in May of Firefox 151, Mozilla has been relying on the zlib-rs library for Gzip compression/decompression. This subtle change to use this Rust-based Zlib implementation has yielded some performance benefits and better memory safety but also some headaches when dealing with Intel CPU bugs...

openSUSE’s Agama 22 Installer Brings Usability and Accessibility Improvements  9to5Linux

There is no shortage of different file-systems available for Linux. New file-systems continue to come about in the open-source world but ultimately many of them end up not being well maintained or having very limited users and not necessarily innovating enough to make them worthwhile over other alternatives. Given the continued increase in file-systems looking to get into the Linux kernel, such as FTRFS and VMUFAT being some of the most recent and then even having multiple NTFS drivers for Linux, there is now documentation in place to formally lay out criteria for new file-systems to be accepted...

Linux Enacts Guidance To Tighten Acceptance Of New File-Systems Into The Kernel  Phoronix

VirtualBox 7.2.10 Released with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 7.1  9to5Linux

ARC Raiders is broken for some Linux / SteamOS players - but a fix is on the way  GamingOnLinux

It's been a while since there has been any Slackware news to pass along, but this week they've finally landed the KDE Plasma 6 desktop in this legendary Linux distribution...