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Best Linux Hosting Providers of 2024 (Tested and Reviewed)  Gizmodo

How to Install Smart Connect App in Linux Using Wine | by Karthikeyan Nagaraj | Infosec Matrix | Dec, 2024  Medium

Debuting as a new development release today was XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.19.1 as this portal front-end service for Flatpak sandboxed apps and other desktop containment frameworks. The XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.19.1 milestone is exposing new and expanded portal capabilities for dealing with various hardware devices and APIs...

Will ‘Civ 7’ Run On Steam Deck And Linux?  Forbes

In time for editing any end-of-year/holiday photos, Darktable 5.0 is out today as a major update to this open-source RAW photography workflow application...

CachyOS Now Uses AutoFDO Kernel as Default Across All Supported Architectures  9to5Linux

The CachyOS December 2024 update is out today as the newest monthly release to this performance-optimized, Arch Linux based operating system...

CachyOS Update Now Uses AutoFDO-Optimized Kernel, Rusticl Driver  Phoronix

Vuls: A Free, Open Source Vulnerability Scanner for Linux  The New Stack

The latest work that Raspberry Pi is working to upstream to the mainline Linux kernel is a HEVC/H.265 video decode driver that works on Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single board computers...

Raspberry Pi HEVC Decoder Driver Posted For Linux Kernel Review  Phoronix

Rhino Linux Is One of the Most Innovative Linux Distros  The New Stack

Want a Really Lightweight Desktop Linux Experience? Try a Window Manager  MSN

The widely-used Curl project has removed support for its Rust-written Hyper HTTP back-end that they were experimentally shipping for several years. The removal of this Rust back-end comes from having little end-user and developer interest in this portion of the code...

I converted this Windows 11 Mini PC into a Linux workstation - and didn't regret it  ZDNet

AdaptiveCpp 24.10 is out today as this implementation of SYCL and C++ standard parallelism for CPUs and GPUs across hardware vendors. This compiler for C++ heterogeneous programming models has tacked on more features and additional performance optimizations with this update...

It's not only KDE seeing nice improvements ahead of the holidays but GNOME developers were also busy this week preparing new improvements to their open-source desktop stack. There's been some rather exciting changes on the GNOME front as we prepare to cap off the year...

Firaxis reveal Sid Meier's Civilization VII system requirements for Linux  GamingOnLinux

Mesa 24.3.2 released with more graphics driver bug fixes for Linux  GamingOnLinux

While the Christmas holidays are quickly approach, KDE developers remain busy working on new features for the upcoming Plasma 6.3 desktop as well as continuing to land many bug fixes...