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German government switches 30000 PCs to Linux and migrates from Microsoft Office to open source LibreOffice  GIGAZINE（ギガジン）

Following up on their tweet earlier this week that they would be working to open-source more of their GPU software stack and hardware documentation, AMD now says they will be releasing documentation followed by the source code for their Micro-Engine Scheduler (MES) IP block found within Radeon GPUs...

An anonymous coder nearly hacked a big chunk of the internet  Cosmos

How to turn an old PC into a NAS  XDA Developers

Qt Creator 13 Released with Offline and Online Installers for Linux on ARM  9to5Linux

German State Migrating 30,000 Computers to Linux and LibreOffice  WebProNews

German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice  ZDNet

Latest Ubuntu beta and other Linux distros delayed by xz-utils security issues  TechRadar

System76 Is Poised to Cause a COSMIC Shift In the Linux Desktop Space  WebProNews

After years being used by Ubuntu Server/Cloud, Ubuntu 23.10 began making use of Canonical's Netplan declarative network configuration software and now Netplan is fully ready to take on all duties with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. After seven years of development, Netplan 1.0 is ready for primetime use from servers to desktops...

The Linux xz Backdoor Episode: An Open Source Mystery  The New Stack

Earlier this week Wine developer Gabriel Ivăncescu with CodeWeavers laid out a great proposal: leveraging AI for assisting with the code review process for more punctual review and upstreaming of patches into the Wine codebase for this software that allows Windows games and apps to run on Linux and other platforms. While great in theory, at this stage just amounted to an April Fools' gag for Wine...

Intel Xeon Max Sees Some Performance Gains For OpenVINO & ONNX With Linux 6.9  Phoronix

Last week being surprised to see a number of AMD EPYC performance gains with Linux 6.9 using that in-development kernel, I was curious about what other platforms may be benefiting from better performance on this kernel that will debut as stable in May. This week I turned to running some fresh benchmarks of Intel Xeon Max using the Supermicro Hyper SuperServer SYS-221H-TNR. More than 230 benchmarks were carried out of Linux 6.8 stable versus Linux 6.9-rc2 in looking for any performance differences.

German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice  The Register

For years the PostgreSQL database server has been adding various JSON features while now the latest addition for dealing with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) structured data is the JSON_TABLE() SQL function...

The Power Profiles Daemon software under the UPower project has released version 0.21 which now is automatically battery-state aware for adjusting the CPU power/performance behavior depending upon whether your Linux laptop is connected to AC or battery power...

UPower Power Profiles Daemon v0.21 Automatically Adapts For Linux Laptop Battery Use  Phoronix

Statcounter: Linux increases desktop market share to 4.05%  Neowin

CVE-2024-3094: XZ Utils Backdoor Threatens Linux Systems  Tanium Endpoint