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Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is Available to Download  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Finally Introducing A Standardized Way Of Informing User-Space Over Hung GPUs  Phoronix

Following last week's delay due to a packaging mishap, Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is available today as the newest point release for this current Long Term Support version of Ubuntu Linux...

Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Now Available With Initial HWE Stack  Phoronix

Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Is Now Available for Download Powered by Linux Kernel 6.11  9to5Linux

SK has been working on a Linux kernel feature dubbed Lazy Unmap Flush "LUF" to defer TLB flushes until folios have been unmapped and freed are eventually allocated again...

Linux Lazy Unmap Flush "LUF" Reducing TLB Shootdowns By 97%, Faster AI LLM Performance  Phoronix

The OBS Studio versus Fedora drama seems to have calmed down - no more legal threats  GamingOnLinux

Fedora Linux Kernel Flaw Exposed Sensitive Data to Attackers  GBHackers

On top of all the recent x86/x86_64 Linux kernel crypto improvements made recently by Google engineer Eric Biggers to better laverage AVX-512 and other modern x86 ISA features, a new patch-set posted today by Biggers would help make all x86/x86_64 kernel encryption/decryption at least slightly faster...

New Patches Would Make All Kernel Encryption/Decryption Faster On x86/x86_64 Hardware  Phoronix

The Debian Policy 4.7.1.0 is now available as the updated manual around policy requirements for the Debian distribution for packaging mandates, design issues, and other details to abide by for Debian developers...

A new debug option was merged on Wednesday to Mutter Git ahead of the upcoming GNOME 48 release. This new debug option is to override the GPU copy mode handling for multi-GPU setups...

Fedora Linux Kernel Vulnerability Let Attackers Gain Access to Sensitive Data  CybersecurityNews

How to Install Microsoft Edge on Ubuntu & Linux Mint  OMG! Ubuntu!

Zstandard 1.5.7 was released a short time ago as the newest update to this widely-used compression algorithm backed by Meta. Zstd 1.5.7 packs more than 500 commits, including new performance optimizations and other enhancements...

Ubuntu 25.04 Features and Release Date: Here's What You Need to Know  It's FOSS News

VyOS Networks Joins Linux Foundation and OPI Project to Advance Open Networking  The Fast Mode

Just a few weeks after the ROCm 6.3.2 update, ROCm 6.3.3 is out this evening with a few more incremental improvements to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack...

FLOSS Weekly Episode 821: Rocky Linux  Hackaday