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Going along with other early Linux kernel driver additions for enabling Panther Lake, the intel-lpss driver in Linux 6.12 has made its device ID additions for supporting Panther Lake H and Panther Lake P processors...

Intel LPSS Driver Adds Panther Lake Support In Linux 6.12  Phoronix

This Linux distro poses its own challenges, but power-users will love it  ZDNet

This Simple Linux Task Manager Is Enough to Manage Your Daily Life  How-To Geek

The Intel LPMD open-source project is a user-space daemon for optimizing active idle power handling on Linux and can be useful particularly for modern Intel Core hybrid processors. LPMD is short for the "Low Power Mode Daemon" while with today's v0.0.7 release it's now re-identified itself as the "Energy Optimizer" instead...

Landlock as the Linux security module for unprivileged access control handling is adding new controls around Unix socket handling with the Linux 6.12 kernel...

The Dell-WMI-Sysman driver on Linux allows for managing BIOS settings from within Linux using sysfs. This dell-wmi-sysman kernel driver supports most Dell platforms from 2018 and newer for convenient BIOS management...

The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.12 merge window...

Critical Unauthenticated RCE Flaw Impacts all GNU/Linux systems  CybersecurityNews

Critical Unauthenticated RCE Flaw Impacts all GNU/Linux systems  CybersecurityNews

Harnessing the Power of Linux to Drive Innovations in Neuroscience Research  Linux Journal

Gaming on Linux: Here's How I Monitor My GPU Stats  How-To Geek

ARM version of Steam Deck’s Proton layer spotted in testing  MSN

Don't Buy a Print Server, Build One on Linux Instead. Here's How  How-To Geek

Hacker boots Linux on Intel’s first-ever CPU  Ars Technica

New Mallox ransomware Linux variant based on leaked Kryptina code  BleepingComputer

Months ago Intel Linux engineers began adapting the Linux kernel to end the assumptions made around "Family 6" for Intel CPUs that had been used since the 90's with the Pentium Pro as the CPU family ID. With Linux 6.12 they finished the Intel CPU family/model ID restructuring and now we have the first patch confirming a post-Family 6 Intel CPU: Diamond Rapids is Family 19...

Swift 6 Improves Linux Support  iProgrammer

MPV 0.39.0 Released with NVIDIA RTX and Intel VSR Scaling Support  9to5Linux

Fedora 41 beta is blazing fast and a great reason to try a new Linux distro  ZDNet