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A few months back GNOME developer Christian Hergert noted that Linux terminal emulators could be much faster following his experiments but then concluded at the time he didn't want to develop a new terminal becase "creating your own terminal is like 20 lines of code these days." Well, he ended up shifting stance a bit and has now announced Prompt, a new container-focused terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop...

GNOME Gets A New Terminal Choice: Prompt  Phoronix

Manjaro 23.1 “Vulcan” Is Available for Download with GNOME 45, Linux 6.6 LTS  9to5Linux

Amazon Linux announces support for KVM and VMWare images with AL2023.3  AWS Blog

GNOME 44.7 Optimizes Shell Application Search and Improves Performance  9to5Linux

GNOME 44.7 Optimizes Shell Application Search and Improves Performance  9to5Linux

Complex 'NKAbuse' Malware Uses Blockchain to Hide on Linux, IoT Machines - Complex 'NKAbuse' Malware Uses ...  Dark Reading

ONF merges networking projects portfolio into Linux Foundation  Silverlinings

With Intel's just-launched 5th Gen Xeon "Emerald Rapids" processors headlined by the 64-core Xeon Platinum 8592+, one of the key upgrades with these new server processors is now supporting DDR5-5600 memory compared to DDR5-4800 with Sapphire Rapids and also the memory frequency limit with AMD's EPYC Zen 4 processors. Here are some benchmarks of the flagship Xeon Platinum 8592+ when being tested with DDR5-4800 versus DDR5-5600 memory modules.

Making a mini computer from scratch with Raspberry Pi and Linux #PiDay #RaspberryPi #Linux @popovicu94 ...  Adafruit Blog

Linux, IoT backdoor stays stealthy using NKN blockchain  The Register

NKabuse backdoor harnesses blockchain brawn to hit several architectures  The Register

While the holidays are quickly approaching, the System76 developers working on their Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux distribution and new Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment haven't been losing focus. December has been another busy month so far as they continue crafting this new modern desktop environment...

Pop!_OS COSMIC Desktop Improving Multi-Monitor & Multi-Window Support  Phoronix

A quirk has been discovered with the AMD-powered Framework 13 inch laptop where if a user closes the laptop's lid on an already-suspended system, the system will wake up. A set of Linux kernel patches are on the way to workaround this issue...

Framework 13 AMD Workaround Prepared For Linux To Deal With A Suspend Issue  Phoronix

How to install Linux Mint  XDA Developers

Intel's VC Intrinsics software package that provides a set of intrinsics atop the LLVM IR instructions to represent SIMD semantics for programs targeting Intel GPUs has been updated for new hardware support...

Ubuntu 23.04 “Lunar Lobster” to Reach End of Life on January 25th, 2024  9to5Linux

PyPI Repository Malware Infects Windows Systems  Spiceworks News and Insights