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COLUMN: The spirit of Linux and the attention economy  The Daily Eastern News

Penguin parade: Sinevibes now does Linux - CDM Create Digital Music  Create Digital Music

With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS due out later this month and the beta now available, I've been spending more time recently testing out the latest development state for this next Long Term Support installment of Ubuntu Linux. Similar to seeing some Ubuntu 24.04 performance gains on server class hardware both from Intel and AMD, testing on workstation hardware is also showing some gains over the current Ubuntu 23.10 release. Here are some comparison tests of the System76 Thelio Major with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X.

Ubuntu 24.04 Brings Some Performance Gains For AMD Threadripper 7980X / System76 Thelio Major  Phoronix

For those trying to use the X.Org Server's GLAMOR accelerated 2D rendering on legacy/obsolete GPUs, there's now a fallback in place to allow software rendering to work when encountering crippled hardware...

While GNU Hurd continues having a tough time on x86 support and GNU Hurd x86_64 is being worked toward, the GCC 14 compiler has been working on compiler toolchain support for GNU Hurd AArch64...

GCC 14 Compiler Adds AArch64 GNU/Hurd Support  Phoronix

Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Now Available For Testing  Phoronix

The Ubuntu 24.04 beta release is now available for testing ahead of the official release later this month for this new Long Term Support release of Ubuntu Linux...

Linux Fu: Getting Started With Systemd  Hackaday

HTTP/2 CONTINUATION the new DDOS affecting most Linux Servers  Medium

Top Linux Commands for Daily Use in 2024  Analytics Insight

Open Source Community's Swift Response Thwarts Massive Linux Backdoor Attack  Analytics India Magazine

A vulnerability in Linux distributions may allow unauthorized access  Security Magazine

Brotato: Abyssal Terrors is going to ruin my free time, especially with co-op  GamingOnLinux

Linux desktop continues to grow with four per cent market share  Notebookcheck.net

The open-source Radeon Vulkan driver within Mesa, RADV, has merged its support for handling Vulkan Video accelerated encoding for H.264 and H.265...

Wayland 1.22 released at the start of April 2023 while now Wayland 1.23 is taking shape as the next version of this core Wayland code...

Last week Bcachefs' repair code was largely completed and in good shape for merging with the Linux 6.9-rc3 kernel. Bcachefs patches last week amounted to about one third of the kernel changes for the week. This week is a new round of fixes to further stabilize the experimental file-system...

Native Spectre v2 exploit puts Intel systems running Linux at risk  BetaNews