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This Linux command is the only backup tool I'll ever need  MakeUseOf

Shelly 2.3.3 Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves Flatpak/AppImage Support  9to5Linux

Microsoft paid $20 million to protect one letter from Linux  XDA

Intel Ending Development Of BigDL: An Open-Source AI/LLM Effort Getting Axed  Phoronix

Among Intel's ongoing reduction in open-source projects they maintain, their BigDL open-source project focused on running large language models across Intel XPUs from Core Ultra laptops to discrete GPUs to cloud / data center hardware all in a low-latency manner, is being ended...

4 beginner Docker mistakes I made that took my homelab offline — and how I fixed each one  MakeUseOf

Wine 11.11 brings more Wayland improvements  GamingOnLinux

CachyOS Proton Can Now Download DLSS Files To Enable FSR 4 In More Linux Games  Wccftech

Among the changes being considered for the in-development Fedora 45 is a lightened version of the GRUB UEFI bootloader that would focus on being a minimal implementation suitable for confidential computing...

Released on Friday was the newest version of Intel Thermald, the thermal daemon developed by Intel for their processors on Linux for monitoring and helping control temperatures across modern Intel-powered laptops and desktops. Catching me immediately by surprise was Intel Thermald 2.5.12 introducing support for ARM...

Intel Thermald 2.5.12 Released... With Initial Support For ARM  Phoronix

Earlier this month I wrote about Intel working on function multi-versioning support for APX and AVX10.2 with the GCC compiler. This allows developers to write optimized code paths specifically targeting Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) or Advanced Vector Extensions 10.2 capabilities of future processors while being able to otherwise fall-back to generic or other optimized code paths for other ISA target features. This work is now merged for GCC 17...

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system now enables Advanced Vector Extensions 512 on capable Intel/AMD CPUs. A number of other hardware driver improvements were also merged for this interesting OS during the last month...

Ahead of the much anticipated Plasma 6.7 desktop release next week, KDE developers have been busy putting final touches on it, mostly in the form of bug/regression fixes...

There is a New X11 Server, Written in Rust, With the Help of AI  It's FOSS

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Espressif ESP32-E22 WiFi 6E module gets Wi-Fi CERTIFIED certificate, an open-source WiFi and Bluetooth Linux drivers  CNX Software

The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware. Now in ending out the day they believe all affected commits have been addressed. But it ended up being more than 1,500 affected packages...

OpenZFS 2.4.3 is out today as the newest stable point release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation as well as point releases for the OpenZFS 2.3 and 2.2 series too...

OpenZFS 2.4.3 Adds Linux Kernel 7.0 Compatibility  Linuxiac