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Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution used for a variety of purposes had been known as CBL-Mariner for "Common Base Linux" while now it appears to be in the process of transitioning to Azure Linux...

Microsoft Rebranding CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution To "Azure Linux"  Phoronix

CentOS Stream ISA Optimized Packages Show Great Results On Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids  Phoronix

While not as fast-moving as Valve's VKD3D-Proton downstream used by Proton / Steam Play, Wine's VKD3D is out today with a new feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API...

New WogRAT malware abuses online notepad service to store malware  BleepingComputer

Linux just hit an all-time high share of the global desktop market — and surging popularity in India is driving uptake of ...  ITPro

NVIDIA’s Nouveau Driver On Linux Reportedly Won’t Face Trouble With HDMI 2.1 Integration  Wccftech

AMD's FreeSync adaptive synchronization technology for displays has come a long way since its 2015 debut and enjoying robust industry adoption. Given the increasing refresh rates of today's TVs and monitors, AMD has rolled out new tier requirements for FreeSync, FreeSync Premium, and FreeSync Premium Pro moving forward...

Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines  Ars Technica

Linux Desktop Adoption Accelerates, Tops 4%  WebProNews

Damn Small Linux  Hackaday

Jenny's Daily Drivers: Damn Small Linux 2024  Hackaday

Microsoft announced today they will be winding down their support for Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), which is similar to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) but was designed to run Android apps from the Amazon Appstore atop Windows 11...

Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android  Phoronix

Warp Terminal Unveils Linux Version with AI and Collaboration Tools in 2024  BNN Breaking

How to install and configure fail2ban for even more SSH security  ZDNet

How to install and configure fail2ban for even more SSH security  ZDNet

CentOS Stream ISA Optimized Packages Show Great Results On Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids  Phoronix

As part of Red Hat evaluating x86-64-v3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, there is the CentOS ISA SIG that's been experimenting with ISA Optimized builds for the x86-64-v3 target. Via the CentOS ISA SIG there is the easy ability to transition an existing CentOS Stream 9 system/server over to using the x86_64-v3 optimized packages. In this article are some benchmarks on a modern Intel Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" server showing the performance benefits when the entire Linux server OS is recompiled for x86_64-v3.

The Linux DeviceMapper code is preparing to introduce DM-VDO as the Virtual Data Optimizer that can provide inline deduplication, compression, zero-block elimination, thin provisioning, and other features. DM-VDO has long existed out-of-tree and should be a very useful addition to mainline...