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Following the recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Beta, CentOS Stream 10 has now reached general availability status. CentOS Stream 10 defines the upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 that the RHEL 10 minor versions are created from and ultimately a preview of what's coming down the pipe for future RHEL 10 releases. CentOS Stream 10 had been available in a preview phase since earlier this year while now is considered GA...

CentOS Stream 10 Reaches GA With Linux 6.12, Python 3.12 & No X.Org Server  Phoronix

New stealthy Pumakit Linux rootkit malware spotted in the wild  BleepingComputer

Linux Mint 22.1 Is Now Available in Beta  How-To Geek

While Fedora Workstation has defaulted to using the Btrfs file-system for the past four years, only this past summer was the idea raised of creating a Fedora special interest group (SIG) around Btrfs to help advance efforts around this CoW file-system for Fedora Linux integration. This week marks the Fedora Btrfs SIG officially being established...

Btrfs SIG Established For Advancing Btrfs Interests On Fedora  Phoronix

Prime Gaming - December 12th edition round-up for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Building off last month's release of the LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha release for this free software office suite, out today is the first beta release of the upcoming LibreOffice 25.2...

How to Run Any Program from Any Linux Distro with Distrobox  Make Tech Easier

A new "Fedora COSMIC" spin of Fedora Linux has been proposed that would feature the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment currently being developed by Linux PC vendor System76...

Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Proposed For Fedora 42  Phoronix

Linux Mint 22.1 Beta is Now Available to Download  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Mint 22.1 Xia beta debuts with new features and refinements  BetaNews

Red Hat expands AI model support in new release of Linux AI platform  SiliconANGLE News

Last week Intel announced the Arc B-Series Battlemage graphics cards as their first Xe2 discrete GPUs. Ahead of the Arc B580 graphics card hitting Internet retailers tomorrow, today the review embargo lifts on the Intel Arc B580. Here is what to expect from the Linux driver support at launch for the Intel Battlemage graphics cards and how the Arc B580 is performing for Linux gaming/graphics workloads.

Intel Arc B580 Graphics Open-Source Driver Linux Gaming Performance Review  Phoronix

Intel Arc B580 Delivers Promising Linux GPU Compute Potential For Battlemage Review  Phoronix

Red Hat Delivers Next Wave of Gen AI Innovation with New Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI Capabilities  Business Wire

Now that the initial Intel Arc B580 graphics card gaming review on Linux is out, for productivity-minded users you may be more curious about the GPU compute potential... Here are some initial OpenCL and Level Zero results for the Intel Arc B580 graphics card compared to the Intel Arc A-Series and the AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce competition under Linux.

Linux Developers Consider Ending 32-bit KVM Host Virtualization Support`  Phoronix