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HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD  Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6 brings big updates to the desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems  Liliputing

Kali Linux 2024.1 released with 4 new tools, UI refresh  BleepingComputer

KDE 6 Update Arrives With Big Plasma Desktop Updates for Linux  How-To Geek

Besides the integrated RDNA3 graphics making the Ryzen 8000G series desktop APUs interesting, making the AMD Ryzen 5 8500G a fun benchmarking target besides its sub-$200 price tag is having a mix of Zen 4 and Zen 4C cores. Here are some benchmarks looking at the Zen 4 vs. Zen 4C performance and power efficiency when offlining various core combinations on the Ryzen 5 8500G desktop processor.

AMD Zen 4 vs. Zen 4C Performance, Zen 4C Core Scaling With Ryzen 5 8500G  Phoronix

5 years later Valve finally gives Windows compatibility tool Proton a logo  GamingOnLinux

Kali Linux 2024.1 Penetration Testing Distro Is Here with Linux 6.6 LTS, New Look  9to5Linux

NVIDIA Unveils Security Flaws in GPU Drivers, Urges Immediate Updates for Linux Users  BNN Breaking

How to remote desktop to Ubuntu  XDA Developers

NVIDIA disclose new driver security issues - Feb 28  GamingOnLinux

KDE Plasma 6: Revolutionizing Linux desktop with far prettier and superior interface than Microsoft Windows 11  BetaNews

Debian 12.5 Arrived with 42 Security Updates and 68 Bug Fixes  Security Boulevard

Best email client for Linux 2024  ITPro

Back in 2022 Cloudflare announced they were ditching Nginx for an in-house, Rust-written software called Pingora. Today Cloudflare is open-sourcing the Pingora framework...

Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source  Phoronix

OpenZFS Encryption Concerns: Data Corruption Risks Highlighted by Linux Expert Michael Larabel  BNN Breaking

KDE neon 6 Distro Now Available with the KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment  9to5Linux

KDE Neon Distro Now Ships with the KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment  9to5Linux

Being worked on and off for several years has been FUSE read/write passthrough support for improving the performance of File-Systems in User-Space by avoiding the daemon overhead on a per-file basis where read/write operations are forwarded by the kernel directly to the lower file-system rather than the FUSE daemon. FUSE passthrough mode has shown to be a big performance win and it looks like it could be finally mainlined come Linux 6.9...