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Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week were two competing solutions for new LLVM Clang capability / thread safety analysis to the Linux kernel. Two developers had separately been working on implementations for the Linux kernel to make use of Clang's "-Wthread-safety" functionality. Ultimately the upstream kernel will likely settle upon the superior or unified solution while already making use of these new checks is uncovering Linux kernel bugs...

Clang Thread Safety Checks Begin Uncovering Bugs In The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Bluefin, a Next-Gen Linux Workstation for Containerized Apps  The New Stack

How Linux Helped Me Avoid Spending Money on a School Chromebook  How-To Geek

Changing a few lines of code in Linux could apparently save hyperscalers billions, research claims, but I am not convinced  MSN

GNU G-Golf v0.8 Released For Writing GTK Apps In Guile/Scheme  Phoronix

Years in the making, GNU G-Golf 0.8 was released on Friday as a significant release for this GNU project. No, it's not a golfing simulator or anything like that, but rather a Guile Object Library for GNOME so that you can develop GTK applications from the Guile/Scheme programming language...

FEX 2502 Delivers Fix For Steam, Multi-Block Improvements For Better Performance  Phoronix

FEX 2502 is out today as the newest monthly feature release to this user-space emulator for running x86/x86_64 Linux binaries on ARM64 Linux including the likes of Wine/Proton and Steam for being able to enjoy modern games on AArch64 Linux systems...

The KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop has received a lot of last minute polishing and fixes ahead of its planned release next week. Plasma 6.3 is scheduled for its stable debut next Tuesday on 11 February...

The FreeBSD 13.5 release dance has begun for closing out the FreeBSD 13 series...

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In the world of Linux, terminal multiplexers are essential tools for developers, system administrators, and power users, as they allow

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Changing a few lines of code in Linux could apparently save hyperscalers billions, research claims, but I am not convinced  TechRadar

UScope: A New Linux Debugger And Not A GDB Shell, Apparently  Hackaday

Following last month's release of Wine 10.0 as the newest annual stable release of Wine for running Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms, Wine 10.1 is out today. Wine 10.1 kicks off the bi-weekly development release cycle trek that will culminate with the release of Wine 11.0 next year...

Port .NET Framework workloads to Linux with Amazon Q Developer, Part 1: Class libraries  AWS Blog

'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama  The Register

'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama  The Register

While the GNOME project has long been closely tied to the GStreamer multimedia framework, GNOME's LocalSearch has decided to abandon its GStreamer use in favor of using FFmpeg/libav directly...

Top 21 Kali Linux tools and how to use them  TechTarget