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While since GNOME 48 Decibels is the new audio player of the GNOME desktop, there is no shortage of other GNOME/GTK-aligned music players. Last month was the big Amerbol music player update and there are Lollypop and others. The latest GNOME-aligned music player now hitting the 1.0 milestone is Nocturne...

This open-source project brings the best part of Linux to Windows  How-To Geek

Hyprland 0.55 is out today as a big feature update for this Wayland-based compositor...

These 6 Linux command defaults make the terminal much less frustrating  How-To Geek

Parrot OS 7.2 Ships with Linux Kernel 6.19 and Copy Fail Fix  Linuxiac

Quasar Linux RAT (QLNX): A Fileless Linux Implant Built for Stealth and Persistence  Security Affairs

WARNING: New Critical Linux Vulnerability "Dirty Frag" Enables Root Access Across Every Major Linux Distribution  LinkedIn

FEX 2605 is out this weekend as the newest monthly feature release to this emulator for running Linux x86_64 binaries on ARM64 (AArch64) devices. This is the open-source project sponsored by Valve and planned for use with the upcoming Steam Frame as well as being relevant to Linux gaming on other 64-bit ARM laptops and other devices...

FEX 2605 Brings Performance Improvements, Initial Snapdragon X2 Elite Fixes  Phoronix

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 is out this week as the latest maintenance release for this tablet/smartphone-focused Ubuntu distribution...

The open-source, community-developed NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver that provides a Video Acceleration API (VA-API) implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC video decode interface is out with a new release. This is the open-source project that's motivated by getting accelerated video decoding to work within Mozilla Firefox and other apps when running with NVIDIA's packaged Linux driver...

Merged as part of the perf subsystem fixes overnight is enabling Auto Counter Reload (ACR) functionality for upcoming Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. This ACR enabling for Diamond Rapids "DMR" is happening in time for Linux 7.1-rc3 on Sunday while the work is also marked for back-porting to existing stable kernels...

I switched to Gentoo Linux and now I get why it's worth the headache  MakeUseOf

Linux mascot Tux the penguin hits 30 years old — Linus Torvalds outlined the design of the 'slightly overweight penguin' on May 9, 1996  Tom's Hardware

Good Job Dell and Lenovo! Hope Others Follow You  It's FOSS

Dirty Frag: Using the Page Caches as an Attack Surface  Qualys

Dirty Frag is a New Linux Exploit That Grants Root, and There's No Proper Patch Yet  It's FOSS

KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing additional Plasma 6.7 desktop features ahead of the stable release due out in mid-June...

FreeBSD 15.1 continues working its way toward a stable release in June. Out today is FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 2...

It’s A Dirty Frag Frag Friday  PC Perspective