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Ahead of the KDE Plasma 5.25 desktop release next week, KDE developers have been busy this past week with last minute fixes ahead of that half-year update as well as beginning early work for Plasma 5.26...

How To Install Slack Desktop On Chromebook?  Fossbytes

9 Best Linux distro systems for special tasks  Linux Shout

Don't Be Afraid of Linux Terminal. Embrace it.  It's FOSS

The Week in Ransomware - June 10th 2022 - Targeting Linux  BleepingComputer

Tiny Linux Distro Lets You Boot Up and Blow Away Doom Demons  MUO - MakeUseOf

AYN Odin handheld gaming PC can now dual boot Android and Windows (or Linux)  Liliputing

AYN Odin handheld gaming PC can now dual boot Android and Windows (or Linux)  Liliputing

How to Solve the “Too Many Open Files” Error on Linux  How-To Geek

PoCL 3.0 has been formally released today for this portable OpenCL implementation that supports execution on CPUs or other back-ends by way of LLVM such as for targeting AMD HSA, NVIDIA GPUs, and other accelerators. With PoCL 3.0 comes initial OpenCL 3.0 support while the actual conformance results are still pending...

openSUSE Leap 15.4: The best desktop on the RPM side of the Linux world  The Register

macOS 13 introduces a super-useful trick for Linux users  TechRadar

6 Practical Reasons for Learning Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Symbiote Linux malware spotted, and infections are 'very hard to detect'  The Register

Raspberry Pi Powered Tiny Linux Handheld ShaRPiKeebo Crowdfund Launched  Tom's Hardware

Blender 3.2 Performance With AMD Radeon HIP vs. NVIDIA GeForce On Linux  Phoronix

This week's release of Blender 3.2 brings AMD GPU rendering support on Linux via AMD's HIP interface in conjunction with their ROCm compute stack. Eager to see the AMD GPU support on Linux finally arrive, I quickly began trying out this new Blender open-source 3D modeling software release while seeing how the AMD RDNA2 HIP performance compares to that of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 GPUs that have long enjoyed top-notch support under Blender.

Apple M1 Affected By "PACMAN" Hardware Vulnerability In Arm Pointer Authentication  Phoronix

MIT CSAIL today is lifting the embargo on a new hardware vulnerability affecting the Apple M1 SoCs (no word yet on exposure with the recently announced Apple M2) and dubbed the "PACMAN" attack...

In recent weeks Ubuntu developers have been working on bringing up and improving support for the Starfive VisionFive, which is one of the most promising "low-cost" RISC-V single board computers to date. Hopefully for Ubuntu 22.10 we'll be seeing good support for this sub-$180 RISC-V computer...