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Nimble 'Gunra' Ransomware Evolves With Linux Variant  Dark Reading | Security

The staging area of the Linux kernel, where preliminary code initially appears to mature until being promoted out, continues seeing a lot of code churn. With Linux 6.17 the staging updates were submitted and now merged with one driver in particular standing out...

5 Linux distros for businesses looking to save money and protect their assets  ZDNET

Bcachefs Faces Exclusion from Linux Kernel 6.17 in Torvalds Dispute  WebProNews

5 Linux KDE Plasma Features that Completely Changed How I Use My PC  How-To Geek

Xtraceroute Ported To GTK4 + Vulkan For Demonstrating The Open-Source Potential For AI  Phoronix

Christian Schaller, a Fedora developer and Director of Software Engineering at Red Hat, recently began exploring the potential of AI usage more from the open-source/Linux perspective. He was left impressed from his ability to easily generate a Python application for internal Red Hat use to porting the venerable Xtraceroute program to GTK4 and Vulkan...

It had been two years since the last update to the AMDGPU X.Org DDX driver but now xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 is now available for those relying on this driver/hardware-specific driver for X.Org enabled Linux systems rather than the xf86-video-modesetting generic driver or a Wayland-based desktop...

Linaro Demos Linux on Snapdragon X Elite with 4K Video and AI  WebProNews

Debian shifts to 64-bit time storage to head off Epochalypse  Network World

Immutable Linux Distro HeliumOS Just Released an Update  How-To Geek

Linux Kernel 6.17 VFS Patch Boosts Disk Failure Handling for Btrfs, Bcachefs  WebProNews

Canonical Boosts Ubuntu with Latest Interim Linux Kernels  WebProNews

Hackers exploit SAP NetWeaver bug to deploy Linux Auto-Color malware  BleepingComputer

New Leostream Platform 2025.1 Adds Enhancements and Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9  Sports Video Group

AMD Streaming SDK Updated With Linux Support - But Recommending X.Org Over Wayland  Phoronix

AMD's GPUOpen group today released the AMD Interactive Streaking SDK 1.1 release that now delivers Linux support alongside the existing Microsoft Windows support. The AMD Interactive Streaming SDK is designed to provide pieces for developers to build-out low-latency streaming solutions for cloud gaming, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and embedded applications. This MIT-licensed streaming SDK was originally launched by AMD back in March as Windows-only while now is thankfully also native to Linux...

Linux kernel 6.16 lands with 38 million lines of code  theregister.com

Cisco Donates the AGNTCY Project to the Linux Foundation  StartupNews.fyi

Farewell Benchmarks Of Intel's Clear Linux On AMD EPYC Shows More Performance Left To Tap  Phoronix