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Canonical used to host a stellar in-person event each Ubuntu Linux development cycle with the Ubuntu Developer Summit. That was over a decade ago and then it became largely a virtual event and then faded away in favor of Canonical's internal road-map planning and other developer sprints among their employees. Coming up in November in Prague is the return of an in-person official event with the Ubuntu Summit...

Ubuntu Summit Making A Return In November  Phoronix

10 Destructive Linux Commands You Should Never Run  It's FOSS

First Look at Crystal Linux, an Arch Linux-Based Distro Focused on Ease of Use and Usability  9to5Linux

The 8 Best Lightweight Linux Distributions With Openbox Window Manager  MUO - MakeUseOf

The 8 Best Lightweight Linux Distributions With Openbox Window Manager  MUO - MakeUseOf

The Debian project today released Debian 11.5 and Debian 10.3 as the newest versions of their free GNU/Linux operating system...

Debian 11.5 Released With NVIDIA Driver Security Fixes, Linux Retbleed Mitigation, Other  Phoronix

Voxel Doom brings voxel goodness to the original DOOM  GamingOnLinux

Debian GNU/Linux 11.5 “Bullseye” Released with 53 Security Updates and 58 Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

Linux virus that is cunningly hidden behind February 31 occurrences  BollyInside

AMD: RDNA 3 And More Code For Linux 6.1  Nation World News

GNOME Shell for mobile Linux reimagines how a smartphone UI can work  Liliputing

GNOME Shell for mobile Linux reimagines how a smartphone UI can work  Liliputing

AMD engineers are working to better optimize the Linux kernel's scheduler for split-LLC (last level cache) processor designs, namely to benefit their EPYC server processors...

AMD Aims To Squeeze More EPYC Performance Out Of Linux With User-Space Hinting For Tasks  Phoronix

Install or Uninstall add-ons on Mozilla Firefox - Here is How?  H2S Media

Password Manager KeePass 2.52 is out  Ghacks

1. Shape-shifting cryptominer savaging Linux endpoints and IoT  The Register
2. New Linux malware combines unusual stealth with a full suite of capabilities  Ars Technica
3. New Linux malware evades detection using multi-stage deployment  BleepingComputer
4. New 'Shikitega' Linux Malware Grabs Complete Control of Infected Systems  SecurityWeek
5. New Stealthy Shikitega Malware Targeting Linux Systems and IoT Devices  The Hacker News
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Sent out as a "request for comments" on Friday night was a new patch series out of Intel introducing the notion of "classes of tasks" for the Linux kernel so that the scheduler can make better decisions on hybrid processors like with Intel's Alder Lake processors and upcoming Raptor Lake. This also provides a more complete implementation of Intel Thread Director for Linux and may also be used as the basis for instruction set differences between the performance and efficient cores...