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Critical Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel: A New Privilege Escalation  Red Hot Cyber

Red Hat is giving developers free access to RHEL – here’s what you need to know  IT Pro

Bunny Bunker Is Building Its Base On PC, MacOS, And Linux This Month  COGconnected

Linux Operating System Market: Growth, Trends and Competitive Insights  openPR.com

Why I'm deleting Firefox for good - and which browser's never let me down  ZDNET

Intel has some terrific improvements lined up for their modern "Xe" kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. New hardware support, SR-IOV preparations for Battlemage, other Intel Battlemage work, and also preparations for the upcoming multi-device support...

Intel Readies Big Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17: Multi-Device Prep, SR-IOV, WCL  Phoronix

Ubuntu 24.04 Hardware Stack Update Brings Mesa 25.0, Linux 6.14  OMG! Ubuntu

For those interested in a small form factor PC running on the open-source Coreboot firmware, Netherlands-based vendor NovaCustom is launching an Intel Meteor Lake powered NUC box running on the Dasharo downstream of Coreboot...

I Use Fedora Linux Daily, but These 3 Things Drive Me Nuts  Yahoo

I Use Fedora Linux Daily, but These 3 Things Drive Me Nuts  How-To Geek

4 things Linux does better than Windows for the average user  XDA

ExTiX's new release is an even better Windows 11-like Linux desktop  ZDNet

The Khronos Group today published the OpenCL 3.0.19 documentation as the latest specification for the OpenCL 3.0 compute API...

This Linux distro combines the best parts of Windows and MacOS - and it's gorgeous  ZDNet

Red Hat sweetens the RHEL deal for biz devs – just don't put it in prod  theregister.com

I Use This 17-Year Old Linux App to Easily Back Up My Files  Yahoo

I Use This 17-Year Old Linux App to Easily Back Up My Files  How-To Geek

Merged today to the open-source NVIDIA "NAK" compiler code within Mesa 25.2 is Kepler instruction scheduling. This real instruction scheduling support for GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" graphics processors can provide some significant performance benefits in select workloads...

Personal Reflections On Immutable Linux  Hackaday