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Make Linux, not war? AlmaLinux opts for kinder, gentler course in RHEL clone conflict  ZDNet

Make Linux, not war? AlmaLinux opts for kinder, gentler course in ...  ZDNet

Framework Laptop 16 now available for pre-order with Windows 11 ...  BetaNews

How to determine your Linux system’s filesystem types  Network World

Battlebit Remastered anti-cheat update won’t break Steam Deck & Linux support  Dexerto

NVIDIA 535.86.05 Linux Graphics Driver Improves Wayland Support, Fixes Bugs  9to5Linux

NVIDIA today published their latest stable point release in the R535 Linux driver series to fix a variety of outstanding issues...

NVIDIA 535.86.05 Linux Driver Fixes Excessive Memory Use, Kernel Panic On Full vRAM  Phoronix

What Is a Flatpak in Linux, and How Do You Install One?  How-To Geek

Linux Ransomware Poses Significant Threat to Critical Infrastructure  Dark Reading

How to Use Linux on Chromebook [Guide] [2023]  TechPP

Pick up some absolute classic in the GOG 'Make Classics Last ...  GamingOnLinux

MySQL 8.1 is available today with the community server builds now available for this latest major update to this popular SQL database server...

Otu esi eme nkwado ndabere na mpaghara na Timeshift  Linux Adictos

There's a lovely new Linux kernel patch series out that's big in working on a major clean-up of the x86 APIC code (or "decrapification" as it's called in the patches) and also bringing up for discussion the idea of killing off x86 32-bit support. It's unlikely the x86 32-bit support will be removed right now, which is "just museum pieces", but as an alternative would be making it SMP-only to at least remove the uni-processor code paths...

New Linux Kernel Code Works On APIC "Decrapification", Suggests Dropping x86 32-bit  Phoronix

Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market  The Register

Fake Sparse Support Being Worked On For Intel's Open-Source ...  Phoronix

While Intel Arc Graphics continue enjoying performance optimizations with the open-source Linux graphics driver stack, the major limitation facing Arc Graphics on Linux right now for gamers is the lack of sparse residency support that is needed for running many newer games on Linux with Intel graphics -- particularly newer Windows D3D12 titles running on Linux via Valve's Steam Play. It's been a long known limitation and will hopefully be addressed once the Intel Xe kernel driver is introduced, but at least as an interim solution there is now "fake" sparse support being implemented...

A set of 35 patches were posted on Sunday for introducing ARM64 Guarded Control Stack (GCS) support to the Linux kernel. This is akin to x86 Shadow Stack support for hardware-protected stacks of return addresses to help fend off ROP attacks...