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Niri is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor inspired by PaperWM and heavy on the animations/effects. Out this morning is Niri 0.1.6 as the newest feature release for this Wayland compositor...

How to get quick access to Gemini AI on Linux with this GNOME desktop extension  ZDNet

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund continues providing the resources for various new GNOME desktop development initiatives. There are various efforts underway for new features and refinements with GNOME 47 in September and a renewed emphasis around GNOME OS...

The performance events updates were submitted today for the ongoing Linux 6.10 kernel merge window. This pull adds support for Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and other new Intel CPU instructions to the x86 instruction decoder...

Linux 6.10 x86 Instruction Decoder Prepares For APX & Other New Intel Instructions  Phoronix

While machine check exception (MCE) events tend to be uncommon, a change made by Intel engineers is accommodating the ability in the Linux kernel to store more machine check records for "when things go seriously wrong" on increasingly high core count servers...

KDE development remains very busy ahead of next month's Plasma 6.1 desktop release...

This Linux App Helps Me Easily Manage My Everyday Tasks  It's FOSS News

Wine 9.9 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms...

EA SPORTS WRC is adding EA anticheat, breaking another game on Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.9 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Here’s How  9to5Linux

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.9 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Here’s How  9to5Linux

Linux Foundation Announces High-Performance Software Foundation  Digital Engineering 24/7 News

Linux Foundation Announces High-Performance Software Foundation  Digital Engineering 24/7 News

Merged as part of the IRQ changes for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel is support for posted interrupts on bare metal hardware...

400K Linux Servers Recruited by Resurrected Ebury Botnet  Dark Reading

North Korean hackers have some deious new Linux backdoor attacks to target victims  TechRadar

North Korea-Linked Kimsuky Hackers Use Gomir Backdoor on Linux  Tech Times

Getting Started With Linux: Your Gateway to the Open-Source Realm  hackernoon.com

Oliver Smith who is serving as the Interim Engineering Director for the Ubuntu Desktop team at Canonical has shared some roadmap plans around Ubuntu 24.10. With this being the first post-LTS release following last month's Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support, they are more free to innovate this cycle and they have a lot of great plans for enhancing the Linux desktop experience...