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GRUB 2.06 was released back in June of 2021 and today it's finally been succeeded by... GRUB 2.12. This latest GRUB stable release has been a long time coming but it's finally out before the new year and it's packing many features for this widely-used open-source bootloader...

GUADEC 2024 Conference Will Be Held in Denver for the GNOME 46 Desktop  9to5Linux

For those with some extra time on your hands around the holidays, the second beta of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.0 desktop along with KDE Gear applications and KDE Frameworks 6.0 is now available for testing...

Christmas comes early to the Linux community -- Zorin OS 17 is here to replace Windows 11 on your PC  BetaNews

Linux Foundation Connectivity grows portfolio with ISP Toolbox and Magma projects  Broadband Communities

This cheap Acer laptop with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c chip can run mainline Linux software (mostly)  Liliputing

Zorin OS 17 Introduces a Hybrid User Experience to Linux Distros  It's FOSS News

Zorin OS 17 Emerges as a Pinnacle of Desktop Beauty  Linuxiac

Zorin OS 17 Released with Quick Settings Menu, Spatial Desktop Effects, and More  9to5Linux

AMD's Ryzen mobile chips beat Intel's new Meteor Lake in Linux benchmarks — Ryzen 7 7840U and Intel Core Ultra 7 ...  Yahoo! Voices

AMD's Ryzen mobile chips beat Intel's new Meteor Lake in Linux benchmarks — Ryzen 7 7840U and Intel Core Ultra 7 ...  Tom's Hardware

Anchore Aligns with Linux Foundation for the Dan Kohn Diversity Scholarship Fund  StreetInsider.com

Intel Meteor Lake Arc Graphics: A Fantastic Upgrade, Battles AMD RDNA3 Integrated Graphics Review  Phoronix

How to log in as root in Ubuntu  XDA Developers

Anchore Aligns with Linux Foundation for the Dan Kohn Diversity Scholarship Fund  Longview News-Journal

Anchore Aligns with Linux Foundation for the Dan Kohn Diversity Scholarship Fund  Yahoo Finance

Anchore Aligns with Linux Foundation for the Dan Kohn Diversity Scholarship Fund  PR Newswire

Yesterday I posted the first Intel Meteor Lake Linux benchmarks that were focused on the CPU capabilities with the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H on Ubuntu Linux compared to the existing AMD Ryzen 7 7840U. The strictly CPU core performance ended up being rather disappointing with the AMD Zen 4 laptop dominating in most cases at similar or better power efficiency. But where things become much more interesting -- and competitive -- with Meteor Lake is on the integrated graphics side now featuring Arc Graphics. The benchmarks today is our first look at the new Meteor Lake Arc Graphics with the Core 7 Ultra 155H while comparing it to the RDNA3 integrated graphics found with the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U as well as the prior generation Intel integrated graphics.

The first beta of the Qt 6.7 toolkit is now available for some holiday-time testing...

Krasue RAT Malware: A New Threat to Linux Systems  Security Boulevard