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For some newer Arm core designs, Arm is changing the Linux kernel to defaulting to enabling Kernel Page Table Isolation "KPTI" if not running on a new firmware version in order to properly mitigate a recently disclosed CPU security issue. This change has been queued up and is expected to change the default with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel...

For those that happen to have a Huawei Matebook E Go 2-in-1 laptop or have been considering these ARM laptops, the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel will be better supporting these devices thanks to a new driver set to be merged...

Huawei Matebook E Go Laptops To Be Better Supported With Linux 6.15  Phoronix

Garuda Linux Might Be the Best Looking Desktop OS on the Market  The New Stack

Ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc7 kernel release later today, a set of input subsystem updates were merged overnight that add in support for a few more gaming controllers...

Linux 6.14-rc7 To Support A Few More Gaming Controllers  Phoronix

An SK engineer has posted a Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) driver optimization for Linux that one line of code changed is helping with performance especially for multi-threaded workloads involving small writes to SSD storage...

A set of patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week that are working on initial Rust programming language abstractions for enabling HID device driver development...

Linux Kernel's Rust Support Being Expanded To HID Drivers  Phoronix

Did you see this Linux DE running on Android?  Android Police

Debian 12.10 is out today as the newest routine media refresh for the Debian 12 "Bookworm" Linux distribution release...

Debian 12.10 Released With More Bugs Fixed & Security Updates  Phoronix

Pine64’s RISC-V tablet now ships with a Debian-based Linux distro and improved hardware  Liliputing

6 Tidbits of Wisdom You Gain From Using Linux  How-To Geek

Valve’s Promise Comes True With SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview: Offers Support To Non-Steam Deck Handhelds And Plasma 6 For Linux Desktop-Like Experience  Wccftech

15 Useless Linux Commands Everyone Needs to Know  How-To Geek

E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends  TechSpot

The much anticipated GNOME 48 is releasing this coming week as a big step forward for this popular Linux desktop environment. In addition there are a lot of other interesting projects continuing in tandem around GNOME. This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue to highlight some of these most recent GNOME-related changes...

7 Criminally-Underrated Linux Apps I Can't Live Without  How-To Geek

It's been a while since having any news to share on ReactOS as the open-source operating system working to re-implement the Microsoft Windows APIs/ABIs for enjoying Windows apps/games and drivers on this platform. Today though they are celebrating a new milestone of being able to boot with the Windows audio stack...