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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 8th, 2024  9to5Linux

Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 6.13-rc2 with an initial serving of bug/regression fixes following last week's Linux 6.13-rc1 release that capped off the feature-packed Linux 6.13 merge window...

Linux 6.13-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes  Phoronix

6 Tips for Using Linux Without Touching the Command Line  Review Geek

6 Tips for Using Linux Without Touching the Command Line  How-To Geek

How to Test Your Linux 3D Graphics Hardware, '90s Style  How-To Geek

How To Install Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11  The New Stack

Linux EFI Zboot Abandoning "Compression Library Museum", Focusing On Gzip & Zstd  Phoronix

The Linux kernel EFI Zboot code for carrying the Linux kernel image for EFI systems in compressed form is doing away with its "compression library museum" of offering Gzip, LZ4, LZMA, LZO, XZ, and Zstd compression options to instead just focus on Gzip and Zstd compression support...

Install Manjaro 24.2 today and leave Microsoft Windows 11 to the boomers  BetaNews

Linux 6.13-rc2 To Workaround Buggy Intel Lunar Lake Leading To Responsiveness Issues  Phoronix

Man Pages Too Complex? Try tldr to Learn Linux Commands  How-To Geek

Sent out this morning were the "x86/urgent" updates ahead of Linux 6.13-rc2 due out later today. There are x86 fixes for both Intel and AMD processors this week. Most notable though is fixing some buggy Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" behavior that could lead to responsiveness/delay issues due to the MONITOR implementation being buggy/broken...

The flash-kernel package is used for putting the Linux kernel image and initramfs in the boot location for embedded devices that aren't able to boot directly from /boot. The flash-kernel package is particularly important for older ARM hardware while now Ubuntu maintainers are looking at dropping patches they currently carry for a number of aging ARM platforms...

Manjaro 24.2 "Yonada" is out today as the newest version of this popular desktop focused Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux...

Manjaro 24.2 Released With GNOME 47 Updates, Powered By Linux 6.12 LTS  Phoronix

Rui Ueyama announced the release today of Mold 2.35 as the latest iteration of this high speed linker alternative to the linkers available from the GCC and LLVM toolchain projects...

These 12 systemctl Commands Will Let You Take Control of Linux systemd Services  How-To Geek

Following 107k lines of old driver code within the staging area of the kernel removed for Linux 6.13, over in the crypto space they are looking at some cleaning as well with plans raised to remove the Stream Processing Unit (SPU) driver for the old Sun Niagara 2, the Sun UltraSPARC T2 and this SPU was also found in the UltraSPARC T3 as well...

GNOME 47.2 Officially Released with Various Bug Fixes and Improvements  9to5Linux