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If you're looking to up your desktop computer security, Linux might ...  ZDNet

If you're looking to up your desktop computer security, Linux might be your best bet  ZDNet

Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux  TechCrunch

Torvalds Calls For Calm as Bcachefs Filesystem Doesn't Make Linux ...  Slashdot

New Steam Client Stable Update Fixes UI Issues on Linux for Intel/AMD Users  9to5Linux

Oracle pours fuel all over Red Hat source code drama  The Register

Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" supports native hardware ray-tracing with RDNA2 and RDNA3 graphics cards where it's matured quite nicely over the past number of months. With the upcoming Mesa 23.2, RADV RT support is enabled by default for all supported GPUs. RADV also has emulated ray-tracing support for older generations of AMD GPUs and as of today it's finally hit a 100% pass rate...

5 Easy Ways to Check for Open Ports on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Fedora Project mulls 'privacy-respecting' usage telemetry  The Register

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 To RTX 4060 GPU Compute & Renderer ...  Phoronix

Earlier this month I provided some initial GeForce RTX 4060 vs. Radeon RX 7600 Linux gaming benchmarks for this new sub-$300 graphics card. For those considering this latest Ada Lovelace graphics card for 3D rendering or compute purposes, here are some benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 4060 on that front by looking at the generational performance of the x060 series graphics cards from the RTX 4060 back to the GTX 1060.

Fanatical's Platinum Collection for July has Tails of Iron, Floppy ...  GamingOnLinux

StackRot: Linux Bug so bad Linus Dives Into Code to Fix It  Security Boulevard

Achieving Zero Trust Network, Application, and Cloud Security with Linux  Security Boulevard

Linux Mint 21.2 final ISOs being tested  Neowin

The AMD Compressonator open-source tool suite that is under the GPUOpen umbrella has now added AVX-512 support alongside other enhancements in its v4.4 update...

Oracle Calls Out Red Hat and IBM Over RHEL Source Code  WebProNews

Can You Run iTunes on a Chromebook? Yes, Here's How!  MUO - MakeUseOf

Following the stunning decision last month by IBM that they would begin limiting access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux sources, AlmaLinux quickly came out working on a path forward and Rocky Linux also shared some ideas how they may continue providing a RHEL-compatible Linux distribution. We've been waiting for Oracle to comment on their plans for the RHEL-compatible Oracle Linux distribution and today they finally issued a statement...

Oracle Intends To Keep Trying To Make Oracle Linux Compatible ...  Phoronix