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Zorin OS 17.1 Linux distribution gets enhanced Windows app support -- you can now escape Microsoft's stranglehold  BetaNews

While Mesa Gallium3D drivers with capable GPUs have already supported accelerated AV1 video deocding, to date it's been limited to the Video Acceleration API (VA-API). With newly-merged code for Mesa 24.1, the VDPAU state tracker can now also handle AV1 decoding with supported drivers/GPUs...

Zorin OS 17.1 Released with Enhanced Windows App Support, Education Edition  9to5Linux

Zorin OS 17.1 Released with Enhanced Windows App Support, Education Edition  9to5Linux

Linux market share on desktop computers reaches an all-time high  TechSpot

Fedora Workstation 41 will drop GNOME X.Org session as fallback option  GamingOnLinux

GNUnet 0.21 has been released as a major update to this GNU project building a network stack for secure, decentralized, and privacy-preserving distributed applications. GNUnet continues striving for a "GNU internet" and with the v0.21 release has rolled out a new transport layer and working to address prior design shortcomings...

Linux Variants of Bifrost Trojan Evade Detection via Typosquatting  Dark Reading

This new Linux malware is targeting some major victims — Docker, Apache Hadoop, Redis and Confluence all under ...  TechRadar

Misconfigured cloud servers subjected to new Linux malware attack  SC Media

The upcoming GTK 4.14 toolkit release with the new renderers should yield crisper font rendering...

The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn  ZDNet

The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn  ZDNet

KERING EYEWEAR IT Linux Specialist  Kering

Venturing beyond the default OS on Raspberry Pi 5  The Register

The performance is likely to be atrocious, but the Mesa Lavapipe driver implementing the Vulkan API for CPU-based execution has rolled out support for Vulkan ray-tracing...

Plasma 6 lands in Arch Linux, KDE neon teething issues and Plasma 6.1 heating up  GamingOnLinux

The Etnaviv DRM kernel driver providing reverse-engineered support for Vivante graphics and NPU IP has sent out their latest feature changes to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 merge window...

openSUSE Leap 15.6 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing with GNOME 45  9to5Linux

Steven Rostedt this week posted some interesting albeit experimental patches for the Linux kernel to support persistent traces that work across a reboot or crash...