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Building off the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 from two weeks ago, AlmaLinux 10.1 is now available in GA form for this community-oriented RHEL10 downstream. Making AlmaLinux 10.1 all the more interesting is the project's decision to promote Btrfs file-system support...

AlmaLinux 10.1 Released - Complete With Btrfs Support  Phoronix

A year and a half after the Linux kernel patches were first posted, SDCIAE that is found with AMD Zen 5 server processors is set to finally be supported by the mainline kernel come Linux 6.19...

AMD SDCIAE Working Its Way Into The Linux 6.19 Kernel  Phoronix

Action1 Extends Autonomous Endpoint Management to Linux, Giving MSSPs a Unified Cross-Platform Patching Platform  MSSP Alert

Linux Foundation Launches the Open Robust Compartmentalization Alliance (ORCA) to Advance Software Security  PR Newswire

Linux Foundation Launches the Open Robust Compartmentalization Alliance (ORCA) to Advance Software Security  Yahoo Finance Singapore

In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks  Tom's Hardware

Proton Drive Unofficial Linux GUI: Open-Source Sync Solution  WebProNews

Dell Pro Max with GB10 Arrives For Linux Performance Benchmarking Review  Phoronix

The most exciting hardware to arrive this month in the Phoronix lab is Dell having sent over two of their new Dell Pro Max with GB10 systems. The Dell Pro Max with GB10 is their build-out around NVIDIA's GB10 superchip with ten Cortex-X925 CPU cores and ten Cortex-A725 cores plus the GB10 Blackwell GPU. With 128GB of LPDDR5X memory and 2TB or 4TB SSD by default all within the small chassis, this is an interesting workstation for AI developers.

A set of patches implementing async I/O IOCB_NOWAIT support for the loop block device is heading to the Linux 6.19 kernel with some performance improvements that will make loop block device users "wow"...

In addition to debuting the Raspberry Pi OS Imager 2.0 app, Raspberry Pi today announced the latest version of their operating system...

The Raspberry Pi Imager application that makes it easy to generate install media / OS image flashing for different Raspberry Pi devices is out with a big feature update...

WinBoat adds support for Podman, UWP, app filtering and more  GamingOnLinux

Linux First, Windows Later! Dell Launches Qualcomm NPU Laptop on Linux Before Windows  It's FOSS

Linux 6.18-rc7 Released with Driver Updates and Bug Fixes  Cyber Press

Linux 6.18-rc7 Released With New Bug Fixes and Driver Updates  GBHackers News

The upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle is set to introduce initial support for Xe3P graphics to be found initially with Nova Lake processors. While that initial support is landing for Linux 6.19, other extra Xe3P features are still to be added to the open-source kernel driver over coming release cycles. One of those extra features being currently tackled is a new element with Xe3P_LPD: the ability to use the system cache for FBC...

Canonical and AMI announced a partnership today so that there will be an Ubuntu Metbookt option added within AMI's UEFI firmware to allow booting to the Ubuntu installer without the need for even having any install media...