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Aurora immutable KDE Plasma workstation: Big, slow, and confusing  theregister.com

Intel Arc Pro B50, Raspberry Pi 500+, Strix Halo & Other September Highlights  Phoronix

During the month of September on Phoronix were 271 original Linux/open-source news articles and another 19 featured Linux hardware reviews and benchmark articles, all written by your's truly. Here is a look back at what excited Linux enthusiasts the most on Phoronix during September...

New FlipSwitch Hooking Technique Bypasses Linux Kernel Defenses  Cyber Security News

Gaming on Linux still isn’t perfect - here’s why I switched off of it  XDA

In addition to XFS enabling online fsck by default, Bcachefs being stripped from the mainline Linux kernel, and Btrfs improvements making for a notable first few days of the Linux 6.18 window, there's more. The EXT4, EROFS, and NTFS3 drivers are bringing the latest batch of file-system changes for Linux 6.18...

Bloober Team announce a Native Steam Deck release for Cronos: The New Dawn  GamingOnLinux

Researchers Reveal FlipSwitch Hook That Outruns Linux Kernel Hardening  Cyber Press

OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 is out today as this community Linux distributiom built from the same sources as SUSE Linux Enterprise 16...

openSUSE Leap 16 Released - Requires x86-64-v2 CPUs, No x86 32-bit Support By Default  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds has come out strong against proposed support for RISC-V big endian capabilities within the Linux kernel...

Linus Torvalds Lashes Out At RISC-V Big Endian Plans  Phoronix

The Academy Software Foundation's OpenColorIO "OCIO" project as a color management solution for motion picture production and related uses has added support for the Vulkan API...

openSUSE Leap 16 Is Now Available for Download with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS  9to5Linux

Changes merged this week to the Mesa PowerVR Vulkan driver now allow it to support all of the functionality required by the Vulkan 1.2 specification...

OpenZFS 2.4-rc2 was released on Tuesday as the latest stepping stone toward the big OpenZFS 2.4 feature release...

Due to rising demand around system memory being pushed up in large part by HBM for AI applications, Raspberry Pi announced price increases on select products to help offset the rising LPDDR costs...

New FlipSwitch Hooking Method Overcomes Linux Kernel Defenses  gbhackers.com

UBports keeps the Ubuntu Touch legacy alive with version 24.04-1.0  Notebookcheck

Amazon announces Vega OS for TV, a Linux-based OS that doesn't support sideloading  gHacks Technology News