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Can the Apple MacBook Pro (2023) run Linux?  XDA Developers

Linux 6.1 was widely anticipated to be a Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel with normally the last major release series for the calendar year normally promoted to LTS status. Greg Kroah-Hartman as the Linux stable maintainer went ahead today and formally recognized Linux 6.1 as the 2022 LTS kernel...

Linux 6.1 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel  Phoronix

More Than 30% of Steam Users Now Run Windows 11  Slashdot

AMD ROCm 5.4 was released back in November while since then it has continue to be refined with new point releases to address various issues with this open-source Linux GPU compute stack...

An Early Look at the Official Fedora Budgie and Sway Spins  9to5Linux

February Humble Choice includes Fallout 76, Thronebreaker ...  GamingOnLinux

Trackmania is looking great on Steam Deck and Linux desktop  GamingOnLinux

Customizable platform fighter Fraymakers is out in Early Access  GamingOnLinux

Oracle, Red Hat expands collaboration  Malaya

Colony builder Maia gets big optimizations, along with controller and ...  GamingOnLinux

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Linux Performance After Three Years  Phoronix

Today marks three years since AMD introduced the Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, the first HEDT chip sporting 64 cores / 128 threads. While based on Zen 2, the shear multi-threaded compute power of the Threadripper 3990X still bodes well today. Besides 64 cores / 128 threads still being a lot, Linux software improvements over the past three years have helped maintain the competitiveness of the Threadripper 3990X. In today's benchmarks are results from the System76 Thelio Major as tested back in 2020 based on Pop!_OS / Ubuntu 22.04 LTS compared to the very latest state today when running an Ubuntu 23.04 snapshot on the same system and using a Linux 6.2 Git kernel.

Bad News for Clop. Good News for Its Linux Victims. ...  LatestLY

A new Linux variant of Clop ransomware has major flaws, researchers say  TechCrunch

The Enterprise Linux Playbook  Intelligent CIO

For those wanting to run Linux bare metal on modern Apple Silicon M1/M2 systems, the easiest way to do so is by using the Asahi Linux distribution with its downstream kernel carrying the latest Apple driver enablement patches for the ARM hardware, the specialized installer for safely setting up the Linux distribution on the Apple, and modern package base provided by Arch Linux. For fans of Fedora Workstation, the Fedora Asahi remix has been working to provide a great Fedora Workstation experience for modern Macs...

Fedora Asahi Aims To Provide The Fedora Workstation Experience ...  Phoronix

GNU Compiler Collection compiler expert Jan Hubicka at SUSE continues working on last-minute tweaks to the GCC 13 for benefiting AMD's latest Zen 4 processors...

Star Wars Dark Forces source port The Force Engine adds Linux ...  GamingOnLinux