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Man bribes girlfriend with cruise vaction to use Linux for a week, relationship somehow survives  Boing Boing

Open Source Security at Risk From Poor Oversight  LinuxInsider

Being worked on for a while now by engineers from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google has been Kexec HandOver "KHO" as a means of allowing some kernel state to be retained when Kexec'ing into a new kernel such as for maintenance/security updates. The KHO patches in recent days were queued up into Andrew Morton's "MM" staging area leading to hope that this work is ready for mainlining with the Linux 6.16 kernel cycle this summer...

A decade after Intel acquired FPGA maker Altera for $16.7 billion and recently working to make Altera an independent company, Intel announced today it has sold 51% of its Altera business in a deal that values that business at $8.75 billion...

Play cards, manage clones, explore unique planets and outsmart aliens in Clonizer  GamingOnLinux

PipeWire 1.4.2 Adds Extra MIDI Checks to Avoid 100% CPU Usage on Older Kernels  9to5Linux

Intel Begins Linux Preparations For Bartlett Lake  Phoronix

The first Linux patch was posted today by an Intel engineer that explicitly mentions "Bartlett Lake" in opening the door for any other Linux kernel patches explicitly catering to Bartlett Lake processors...

Electronic music rhythm game Spin Rhythm XD recently added Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

After various commits to Mesa 25.1 in recent days in preparing for a new paired context registers feature of AMD RDNA4 (GFX12 graphics), the feature today is wired up for the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" with the upcoming Mesa 25.1 release. This feature has the possibility of helping performance for new AMD RDNA4 hardware but the performance benefits at this time aren't clear...

Sent out as a request for comments today is a patch series implementing PCACHE, a persistent memory cache for block devices. PCACHE was born out of code originally designed for the CXL block device driver but ultimately is useful outside the context of Compute Express Link as well...

MX Linux 23.6 Is Out Now Based on Debian 12.10 and Powered by Linux Kernel 6.14  9to5Linux

While LLVM LLD and Mold are two popular linkers on Linux systems with the latter being known for its impressive speed and much faster than GNU LD and Gold, this past week Qualcomm open-sourced a new linker: ELD...

PeaZip 10.4 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with UI Enhancements  9to5Linux

Huawei MateBook 14 Linux launched with lower price than Windows version  Huawei Central

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Let’s start by defining a bad sector/bad block, it is a section on a disk drive or flash memory that

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 13th, 2025  9to5Linux

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Sometimes, you may find yourself in a situation where you need to delete all files in a directory or simply

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Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 15 (Apr 7 – 13, 2025)  LXer: Linux News

ArcoLinux Sails Into the Sunset  LXer: Linux News