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Endless OS 5.0 Is Out with Refreshed Desktop Experience, Wayland Support  9to5Linux

First Linux variant of Clop ransomware targeted universities, colleges but was flawed  The Record by Recorded Future

Steam Deck Controller Interface Seeing Initial Support With Linux 6.3  Phoronix

With the upcoming Linux 6.3 cycle there is finally support for the Steam Deck being added to the Steam HID driver...

Linux’s OpenWallet Foundation readies launch of open-source ...  Biometric Update

Fresh, Buggy Clop Ransomware Variant Targets Linux Systems  Dark Reading

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