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I've used loads of Linux packagers, but this is by far the best one  XDA

Going on for several months now has been an effort to wire up cache-aware scheduling / load balancing for the Linux kernel for helping out task placement for processors with multiple cache domains such as modern AMD Ryzen/EPYC and Intel Xeon platforms. This cache-aware scheduling has shown much potential for Linux with further enhancing performance on today's interesting CPUs. Out today is the third iteration of cache-aware scheduling with an important rework...

Cache-Aware Scheduling For Linux Refined - Better AMD & Intel CPU Performance  Phoronix

CyberT. – A BlackBerry-like Raspberry Pi CM4-based handheld Linux computer with Kali Linux support  CNX Software

Alienware's 'Performance Boost' Hurts Gaming on Linux  How-To Geek

Major Linux Distros Are Exposed To A Root-Level Security Threat, Update ASAP  HotHardware

EBU, Linux Foundation and NABA launch open source MXL SDK for software-based Media Exchange  EBU tech

The Zed Editor remains a popular code editor written in the Rust programming language and providing modern features for this project started by former Atom developers. One of the long sought features for Zed has been having built-in debugger capabilities and that work has finally been merged to the project's codebase...

Released yesterday were X.Org Server 21.1.17 and XWayland 24.1.7 to address another batch of six security vulnerabilities reported by security researchers. Out today is X.Org Server 21.1.18 and XWayland 24.1.8 in order to further button up one of the security issues reported yesterday...

Amazon Linux 2023 achieves FIPS 140-3 validation  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

KDE Plasma 6.4 ships with major usability and Wayland improvements  theregister.com

Framework Laptop 12: An Upgrade-Friendly, Convertible 2-in-1 Linux Laptop Review  Phoronix

Back in February the Framework Laptop 12 was announced as the company's first 2-in-1 convertible laptop while still being well-built and upgrade-friendly/modular as we have come to enjoy out of their various Linux-friendly laptops. Today the review embargo lifts on the Framework Laptop 12 and thus can share our initial impressions on this Intel-powered 12-inch laptop.

Comic-page roguelike shooter Fury Unleashed gets an essential Linux fix  GamingOnLinux

Boost Your Linux Terminal Productivity by Learning This Advanced Search Syntax  How-To Geek

Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler  [H]ard|Forum

The Servo browser engine project born out of Mozilla as an early Rust project and now advanced by open-source developers from various firms continues moving forward. Servo has finally scratched animated GIF support off its TODO list among other features...

CISA warns of attackers exploiting Linux flaw with PoC exploit  BleepingComputer

Download Chromium (free) for Windows, macOS, Android, APK and Linux  Gizmodo

AMD engineers today posted the second iteration of their AMD ISP4 Linux kernel driver, which is for supporting the web-camera with the high-end Strix Halo powered HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop and presumably many AMD Ryzen laptops in the future...