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Linux's sudo and su Are Being Rewritten in Rust  WebProNews

Linux Foundation releases DentOS 3.0 network OS  Telecompaper EN

While there is already Fedora Silverblue as a Fedora Workstation variant leveraging RPM-OSTree for creating an ummutable OS image and Fedora Kinoite as a KDE-based alternative, Fedora Onyx has been proposed as a new immutable variant of Fedora Linux...

Fedora Onyx Aims To Be A New Fedora Linux Immutable Variant  Phoronix

Edubuntu: The Ubuntu-based OS that brings Linux to the classroom (and home)  ZDNet

Edubuntu: The Ubuntu-based OS that brings Linux to the classroom (and home)  ZDNet

How to use Ping command on Windows, Linux & macOS  Dexerto

How to install Burp suite on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04 LTS  H2S Media

With Linux running on everything from tiny single board computers with basic WiFi or Ethernet networking up through massive super-computer clusters, the Linux networking subsystem continues seeing immense improvements each kernel cycle. With Linux 6.4 the networking changes are heavy from new hardware support (including Apple M1 Pro/Max WiFi!) to continued work around WiFi 7 support as well as never-ending work on performance optimizations...

Linux 6.4 Has Many Networking Changes From A New Performance Tunable To More WiFi 7  Phoronix

Intel's open-source "cartwheel-ffmpeg" project is their repository where they collect all of their FFmpeg patches prior to upstreaming. While the patches have been available in Git form, prior to the weekend Intel released their 2023Q1 queue of patches to this widely-used, open-source multimedia library...

Ubuntu 23.04 'Lunar Lobster' Lands With Newly Minted Cinnamon ...  LinuxInsider.com

Near the start of 2022 engineers out of the Qualcomm Innovation Center posted Linux driver patches for their Gunyah hypervisor. Gunyah is an open-source type-1 hypervisor developed by Qualcomm with an emphasis on security and other features. More than one year later the Gunyah drivers have yet to be upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel but work on them persists...

Qualcomm Continues Working To Upstream Gunyah Hypervisor ...  Phoronix

Merged last week for the Linux 6.4 kernel were all of the VirtIO and Virtual Data Path Acceleration (VDPAU) changes. Interesting from that pull request is delivering a big performance bump for VDUSE...

Linux 6.4 Delivers A Big Performance Boost For VDUSE  Phoronix

In recent years Linus Torvalds hasn't had the time to write too much original new code for the Linux kernel himself with these days mostly managing developers, providing insightful mailing list posts, and reviewing code for merging into the kernel tree along with related tasks. For Linux 6.4 though he did manage to write up some new code...

Linus Torvalds Cleans Up The x86 Memory Copy Code For Linux 6.4  Phoronix

Mastering the Split Command in Linux: Effective File Splitting ...  Linux Journal

How to Use Nano Command Line Text Editor in Linux  Beebom