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Habits to Keep Linux Resource Usage Low  Review Geek

Putting Linux on a Tablet? 7 Distros to Try  Yahoo! Voices

5 Linux Features That Make It More Productive Than Windows or Mac  Review Geek

Putting Linux on a Tablet? 7 Distros to Try  How-To Geek

5 Linux Features That Make It More Productive Than Windows or Mac  How-To Geek

The Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution has issued its November 2024 media refresh. Notable this time are pulling a few performance-related patches into its kernel build...

Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Pulls In THP Shrinker & AMD Cache Optimizer  Phoronix

How to Customize Your Linux Terminal Prompt for a Better Workflow  How-To Geek

Pop!_OS: One of the Best Linux Distros For Creators of All Types  The New Stack

How to run a local Linux web server running in a Windows 11 window  Tom's Hardware

A set of Linux kernel patches posted on Friday by Meta/Facebook provide for sizable performance optimizations for applications leveraging /proc/kcore such as for debuggers...

Linux Optimization Patches Significantly Speed-Up Debuggers Using /proc/kcore  Phoronix

Debcow is an experimental implementation of deploying Debian packages on copy-on-write file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs. Debcow adapts DPKG to use reflinks for installing packages. With reflinking to the file contents from the Debian package archives rather than copying of files, it can lead to a dramatic speed-up of installing Debian packages: as much as 6x faster on CoW file-systems...

A patch is pending for enabling support for the USB-C model of Apple's latest Magic Trackpad input device under Linux...

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.21, Wine-Staging 9.21 is available as this experimental blend of Wine that carries extra patches for testing/evaluation to enhance the ability for Windows games and apps to run on Linux...

Linux Support For Apple's Latest Magic Trackpad USB-C Model  Phoronix

If this weekend's release of Hyprland 0.45 doesn't suit your fancy, Niri is also out this weekend with a new feature release. Niri is the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor for an interesting Linux desktop experience...

Proving Grounds -Nibbles (Intermediate) Linux Box -Walkthrough — A Journey to Offensive Security  Medium

Debian 12.8 is out today as the latest media refresh for the "Bookworm" release with numerous security fixes along with other general bug fixes included as part of the assortment of package updates...

Debian 12.8 Released With Many Bug Fixes & Security Updates  Phoronix