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Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Addressed in EOL Ubuntu Systems  Security Boulevard

A patch merged this weekend for Mesa 24.0-devel is helping the performance of the open-source NVK Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs but the performance remains well short still of the proprietary NVIDIA Linux graphics driver stack...

One Line Patch Doubles Mesa NVK Performance For Talos Principle... To 18 FPS  Phoronix

This could be the best Linux distro of the year (and it's not even close)  ZDNet

A whole new kind of Linux malware has been found in the wild  TechRadar

How to Use the Linux cut Command  How-To Geek

WayVNC v0.8 is working its way toward release as a VNC server for wlroots-based Wayland compositors like Sway. WayVNC continues to make it quite easy to have VNC support for Wayland desktops employing wlroots and this next release brings even more features...

Storage company Kioxia that was spun off from Toshiba several years ago has donated a software development kit (SDK) to the Linux Foundation for establishing the Software-Enabled Flash SDK. This is for opening new doors and innovative uses around flash memory...

Kioxia Donates SDK To Linux Foundation For Software-Enabled Flash SDK  Phoronix

Getting started with scripting on Linux, Part 1  Network World

Wind River Continues Long-Standing #1 Ranking in Edge Operating System Platforms  Yahoo Finance

Wind River Continues Long-Standing #1 Ranking in Edge Operating System Platforms  Business Wire

Since earlier this year AMD has been working on Linux support for WBRF for mitigating WiFi radio frequency interference (RFI) with their latest Ryzen 7000 and forthcoming Ryzen 8000 series mobile processors. That work looks like it will be ready to land in Linux 6.8...

AMD WBRF Ready For Linux 6.8 To Mitigate WiFi Radio Interference  Phoronix

Linux Mint 21.3 Beta out now with experimental Wayland support for Cinnamon  GamingOnLinux

HPC News Bytes 20231211: AMD's MI300, Quantum in the News, Linux Foundation's 2 New Projects, EU AI ...  insideHPC

Following a bumpy weekend due to the EXT4 data corruption bug, Linux 6.6.6 is out with just a sole change for dealing with another headache: WiFi regressions...

Linux 6.6.6 Released Due To WiFi Regression  Phoronix

Following Debian 12.3 being delayed due to an EXT4 data corruption bug briefly appearing in released Linux 6.1 LTS releases, Debian 12.3 has been replaced by Debian 12.4 and comes with dozens of bug fixes...

Debian 12.4 Released With Dozens Of Fixes  Phoronix