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Linux Passes 5% Milestone  i-programmer.info

Sven Peter today sent out all of the Apple SoC driver and DeviceTree (DT) updates aiming for the soon-to-happen Linux 6.17 merge window...

Apple Silicon SoC/DT Changes Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.17  Phoronix

Red Hat Releases Free RHEL Version for Developer Testing  ChannelE2E

Linux users are about to face another major Microsoft Secure Boot issue  TechRadar

CISA Warns of Interlock Ransomware With Double Extortion Tactics Attacking Windows and Linux Systems  CyberSecurityNews

Cybercriminals Exploiting Linux SSH Servers to Launch SVF Botnet  Cyber Press

Threat Actors Target Linux SSH Servers to Deploy SVF Botnet  gbhackers.com

Starship Prompt: Customize Your Linux Shell with Ease  LXer: Linux News

While downstream Ubuntu is the most popular Linux option for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered "Windows on Arm" laptops, that's because of their concept images containing a number of "hacked packages" to lead to a decent user experience. But for upstream Debian Linux the prospects of running it on Snapdragon X Elite/Plus laptops is less than ideal with a number of problems persisting -- similar to other Linux distributions focused on running the mainline Linux kernel and other upstream software...

A Number Of Problems Make Debian & Other Linux Distros A Pain On Snapdragon X Laptops  Phoronix

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 196 Improves WireGuard Support, Console Graphics Stack  9to5Linux

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week voted to approve a number of new features/changes for the upcoming Fedora 43 release...

NVIDIA's Cloud Gaming Service GeForce NOW Has an App on Linux  It's FOSS News

A late change to the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end that may help efforts particularly for the ROCm compute support on RDNA3 hardware is finally merging support for using true 16-bit instructions and registers on all RDNA3 GPUs...

Fwupd 2.0.13 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for HP USB-C 100W G6 Dock  9to5Linux

Arm engineer Karunika Choo has been leading the effort to enable support for the latest Mali GPUs within the open-source and upstream "Panthor" DRM kernel graphics driver for Linux. This work includes being able to enable the latest Mali 5th Gen GPUs on this open-source graphics driver...

Arm Preparing Support For Latest Mali GPUs With Panthor Open-Source Driver  Phoronix

LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today announced the availability of Fwupd 2.0.13 for handling firmware updates on modern Linux systems...

Fwupd 2.0.13 Released With New Hardware Support, Numerous Fixes  Phoronix