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Arm today sent out their third iteration of their Linux kernel patches for adding Arm Morello platform support to the kernel: an experimental extension of Armv8.2-A paired with the CHERI v7 ISA...

Queued up this week via the tip/tip.git's "x86/bugs" Git branch for the Linux kernel is AMD "SRSO_USER_KERNEL_NO" support as a new SRSO/Inception mitigation handling seemingly for Zen 5 processors and beyond...

Linux Prepares AMD "SRSO_USER_KERNEL_NO" Support For Zen 5 CPUs  Phoronix

GNOME vs. KDE Plasma: Top Linux Desktops Compared  How-To Geek

5 lightweight Linux distributions with very low system requirements  ZDNet

With the Intel Graphics Compiler having dropped Ice Lake and older support and in turn the Intel Compute Runtime dropping Ice Lake and older to just focus on newer Intel graphics hardware support, Fedora packagers and other stakeholders have been grappling with how to handle the situation. For Fedora 42 there's been a proposal for updating to the newer Intel Compute Runtime code for benefiting the more recent Intel graphics hardware while in recent days there's been talk of forking the legacy code...

ShredOS is an entire OS just for destroying data  Boing Boing

AMD Zen 5 Captivated Linux Reader Interest In 2024  Phoronix

With 2024 in the books, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and benchmark articles for 2024. In addition to the three thousand original Linux/open-source news articles last year, there was 191 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles written by myself. AMD Zen 5 on Linux easily dominated the list of most popular articles for the year along with ZLUDA and several of the Intel Arrow Lake and Granite Rapids articles plus the Framework 16 laptop...

Fedora-based Gaming Distro 'Nobara 41' Releases With a New Tweak Tool and a Change for NVIDIA Users  It's FOSS News

Why I'm Not Sold on Linux Tiling Window Managers  How-To Geek

Last month I wrote about a Lenovo Legion Linux driver being posted for enabling more power/performance settings under Linux. Following a significant rework, a second iteration of those patches have now been posted with just being referred to as the Lenovo "Gaming Series" WMI drivers without the Legion reference...

Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers Updated For Enabling Extra Functionality Under Linux  Phoronix

For the Qualcomm Adreno X1-85 GPU found within the Snapdragon X1 series of laptop chips, an Adaptive Clock Distribution "ACD" feature is currently being wired up to the open-source MSM kernel driver to help with power and performance...

Within the mainline Linux kernel has been the open-source SteelSeries HID driver while newly posted patches are tacking on support for the SteelSeries Arctis 9 wireless gaming headset...

Linux "steelseries" Driver Being Extended For The SteelSeries Arctis 9 Wireless Headset  Phoronix

GE-Proton 9-22 released with lots of game fixes for Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Linux user share on Steam ended 2024 on a high note  GamingOnLinux

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Cloud computing has revolutionized how businesses operate, and its influence continues to grow in 2025. With more companies adopting cloud

The post 5 Most In-Demand Cloud Computing Skills in 2025 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

My Linux and Open Source Resolutions for 2025  It's FOSS News