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After not being ready in time for this week's early release target date, it's now been determined today that Fedora 40 is ready for release next week...

Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release Next Week  Phoronix

Ubuntu Studio in new LTS beta; still the easiest creative Linux distro - CDM Create Digital Music  Create Digital Music

6 features I wish MacOS would copy from Linux  ZDNet

Changwoo Min with Igalia presented yesterday at Open-Source Summit North America on optimizing the kernel's scheduler for Linux gaming. Of course, the motivation is around Valve's Steam Deck but for Linux gaming at large to benefit too from this scheduler work to ideally yield less stuttering during gameplay...

Rust-Written LAVD Kernel Scheduler Shows Promising Results For Linux Gaming  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds takes on evil developers, hardware errors and 'hilarious' AI hype  ZDNet

Ubuntu outperforms Windows 11 on the Framework Laptop 16 with Ryzen 7 7840HS  Tom's Hardware

Clonezilla Live Is Now Patched Against the XZ Backdoor, Powered by Linux 6.7  9to5Linux

With the Framework 16 laptop one of the performance pieces I've been meaning to carry out has been seeing out Linux performs against Microsoft Windows 11 for this AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS powered modular/upgradeable laptop. Recently getting around to it in my benchmarking queue, I also compared the performance of Ubuntu 23.10 to the near final Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on this laptop up against a fully-updated Microsoft Windows 11 installation.

Ubuntu 24.04 Boosts Performance, Outperforming Windows 11 On The AMD Ryzen Framework 16 Laptop  Phoronix

Ubuntu 24.04 Boosts Performance, Outperforming Windows 11 On The AMD Ryzen Framework 16 Laptop  Phoronix

Shredding files on Linux with the shred command  Network World

While Fedora 41 in late 2024 is aiming to have more reproducible package builds, openSUSE Factory has already achieved a significant milestone in bit-by-bit reproducible builds...

openSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-By-Bit Reproducible Builds  Phoronix

On Wednesday the latest round of drm-intel-next material was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.10 kernel merge window. Intel's open-source engineers remain very busy working on the i915 and Xe kernel graphics drivers with new display features, expanding hardware support, and other functionality...

Cerber Linux Ransomware Exploits Atlassian Servers To Take Full Control  CybersecurityNews

Veeam champions data freedom for customers with new Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager support  ZAWYA

Veeam Champions Data Freedom for Customers with New Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager Support  Business Wire

Eric S Raymond has released version 0.2 of Autodafe, his latest open-source project that provides "tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of Autotools."..