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Following some release delays the past few weeks, it's been decided today that Fedora Linux 39 is now ready to ship next week...

Fedora Linux 39 To Be Released On Tuesday  Phoronix

Forget Windows 12, Nitrux 3.1.0 Linux distribution should be your ...  BetaNews

OpenELA Announces Release of Enterprise Linux Source Code to ...  HPCwire

LibreOffice 7.5.8 Is Here as the Last Update in the Series, Upgrade to LibreOffice 7.6 Now  9to5Linux

One of the last major blockers before the remaining real-time "PREEMPT_RT" patches can be upstreamed is sorting out threaded / atomic console printing. With the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel, there's been more work upstreamed in that endeavor...

Linux 6.7 Continues Work On printk Threaded Printing  Phoronix

You Can Now Upgrade from Ubuntu 23.04 to Ubuntu 23.10, Here’s How  9to5Linux

Audacity 3.4 Released with Music Workflows, New Exporter, and More  9to5Linux

Microsoft Azure's update mechanism now supports a snapshot service in Ubuntu  Neowin

Last week with the AMDVLK 2023.Q4.1 driver, AMD removed support for Polaris and Vega GPUs from this official open-source Vulkan driver. But as mentioned this doesn't impact the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver maintained by Valve, Red Hat, and other open-source developers. In fact, this week another optimization for Vega/GFX9 was merged for Mesa 24.0-devel...

AMDVLK Dropped Vega While Mesa's RADV Is Continuing To Make ...  Phoronix

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has signed off on shipping KDE Plasma 6.0 as the KDE desktop option for Fedora 40. Additionally, as part of this change, the plan is to drop the KDE X11 session to leave only the KDE Plasma Wayland session available...

KDE Plasma 6.0 Approved For Fedora 40 - Including Dropping The ...  Phoronix

Intel Itanium IA-64 Support Removed From The Linux 6.7 Kernel  HPCwire

Following Red Hat's decision to limit access to the RHEL source code to their customers, various RHEL-based Linux distributions were caught in a tailspin. CIQ (Rocky Linux), SUSE, and Oracle decided to form the Open Enterprise Linux association (OpenELA) to collaborate around the development of distributions with compatibility against Red Hat Enterprise Linux and ensuring open and free access to EL source code. Today they are announcing initial source available for their EL8 and EL9 packages...

Intel's Itanium Is Finally Laid To Rest After Linux Yanks IA-64 Support  Tom's Hardware

Microsoft Overhauling Its Software Security After Major Azure Cloud ...  Slashdot

Google engineers on Wednesday posted an initial "request for comments" set of patches that re-implement Android's Binder code within the Linux kernel in the Rust programming language rather than C...

Google Rewriting Android's Binder In Rust With Promising Results  Phoronix