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Following Canonical deciding to pull in control of the LXD project and LXD maintainership being limited to Canonical employees, the Linux Containers project has announced the forking of LXD as Incus...

Linux Containers Forks LXD Project As "Incus"  Phoronix

Last year Google decided to deprecate JPEG-XL image support within their Chrome/Chromium web browser. They expressed not enough interest and other factors for so quickly removing JPEG-XL support from their browser. They went ahead and removed the support for this next-gen JPEG standard while now a half-year later they may be having second thoughts...

Fedora Linux on M-powered Macs will be here shortly  ZDNet

Fedora Linux on M-powered Macs will be here shortly  ZDNet

For those that have fond memories of the NeXTSTEP days and in particular its graphical user interface during the pre-Apple times, Window Maker 0.96 was released this weekend for that X11 window manager inspired by the NeXTSTEP GUI...

Mozilla VPN client security on Linux is broken with no patch in sight  TechSpot

Review: Beepy, A Palm-sized Linux Hacking Playground  Hackaday

New InstallAware X16: Build 16 Times Faster, macOS/Linux Targets  Benzinga

Sourceware.org that provides the open-source hosting for projects like GCC, Cygwin, and more had long been sponsored by Red Hat and a rather opaque organization. Earlier this year SourceWare.org became part of the Software Freedom Conservancy. In addition to now calling the SFC home, they are planning other changes ahead to expand their hosting services, diversifying hardware and software partners, and other changes...

AMDVLK 2023.Q3.1 is out this morning as the first update to AMD's official open-source Radeon Vulkan Linux driver since mid-June...

The Asahi Linux Project Collaborates with Fedora for New Flagship ...  Fagen wasanni

Modrinth announce their Minecraft launcher is now in Beta  GamingOnLinux

The Steam Deck's popularity has meant Linux is the second biggest OS for Steam  Yahoo Life

Asahi Linux project hooks up with Fedora: Remix that's not a remix coming soon  The Register

The Linux kernel's "dimmtemp" driver allows for reporting memory temperatures with capable memory modules and when exposed by the Intel processor's PECI (Platform Environment Control Interface). Currently though the DIMM temperature driver is hard-coded to only allow reporting up to 32 DIMMs while a change queued for Linux 6.6 will extend that limit...

Linux 6.6 Will Be Able To Handle Temperature Reporting When Having More Than 32 DIMMs  Phoronix

Recently merged to GNOME's Mutter compositor development code is implementing a dedicated kernel mode-setting (KMS) thread and allows for pointer motions to bypass the main thread during cursor sprite movements. Ultimately this effort is around lower-latency cursor movements...

New SkidMap Redis Malware Variant Targeting Vulnerable Redis ...  The Hacker News

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Logical Volume Management (LVM) is a powerful tool that greatly simplifies disk space management. With LVM, the task of allocating additional space to a file

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