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Linux 6.1 Default Kernel Config To Warn At Boot Of W+X Mappings  Phoronix

The release candidates are out today for the GNOME Shell and Mutter updates ahead of this month's GNOME 43 desktop debut...

15 Video Games to Try If You Don’t Play Games  How-To Geek

Ransomware attacks: Linux OS sees Increase of 75 percent from last year  BGR India

Ransomware attacks: Linux OS sees Increase of 75 percent from last year  BGR India

Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has added support for compatibility with GPUOpen's Radeon Raytracing Analyzer...

Attacks on Linux Servers Rose 75% Over Last Year, Warn Security Researchers - Slashdot  Slashdot

KDE's Kaidan app has been in development for a number of years now as a Jabber/XMPP chat client built around Kirigami and Qt Quick. Kaidan has been under active development and formally became a KDE project in 2019. It's newest ambition is now working out encrypted audio and video calls...

GravityMark 1.70 has been released as the multi-API graphics benchmark developed by Tellusim Technologies that was started by one of the former Unigine engine developers...

75% increase in ransomware attacks targeting Linux systems in 2022  The Siasat Daily

I used ChromeOS exclusively for two weeks — here's how that went  Tom's Guide

Compare Files in Linux With These Tools  It's FOSS

GNU Grep 3.8 was released today for this commonly-used command-line utility for search plain text data. With the GNU Grep 3.8 it's now made more clear that if you are still relying on the egrep and fgrep commands, it's past due for switching to just grep with the appropriate command-line arguments...

'What Happened with CentOS Will Not Happen with Rocky Linux' - Slashdot  Slashdot

Ethereum ($ETH) – Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin: Crypto Could Replace Gold And Be The ‘Linux Of Finance’ By  Benzinga

How to Install and Use Homebrew on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Chinese-made deepin 20.7 Linux distro is ready to replace Windows 11 on your PC  BetaNews

Google releases Chrome 105 emergency update to address security issue  Ghacks

Currently when it comes to shipping new/updated device support for firmware updating under Linux with FWUPD/LVFS, it requires making/adjusting a Fwupd plug-in for carrying out the actual firmware copying/updating of the device and then adding in the device VID/PID to a quirks table so Fwupd knows about what to match a given device to for the firmware plug-in to use. Even in new devices where no plug-in changes are required, new device entries are still needed in the quirks table and it makes it challenging when Linux distributions don't quickly move to new FWUPD releases. Moving forward a better solution is being explored...

FWUPD Explores Improvement For Easier & More Robust Firmware Updating On Linux  Phoronix