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In addition to Intel engineers being responsible for much of the Linux kernel driver work around USB4 and Thunderbolt, they have now published thunderbolt-utils as a collection of user-space utilities for managing USB4/Thunderbolt on Linux environments...

Intel Rolls Out thunderbolt-utils To Manage USB4/Thunderbolt ...  Phoronix

A new version of Canonical's Mir display server was released today that these days serves as a library for building Wayland-based shells...

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