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Hackers Deploy CRON#TRAP for Persistent Linux System Backdoors  HackRead

Dangerous new phishing campaign infects Windows devices with malicious Linux VM  TechRadar

Merged back in 2019 was the Fieldbus subsystem as a set of network protocols for real-time distributed control of automated industrial systems. But now five years later, Fieldbus is being removed from the mainline Linux kernel since the code hasn't been maintained...

Retro racing throwback Classic Sport Driving adds Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Due to the possibility of DMA attacks from connected Thunderbolt devices, Linux and other platforms have built up safeguards over the years and different security levels for Thunderbolt to better protect systems having this high speed interface exposing PCIe. With the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel, the logic of the kernel is being enhanced to better detect and trust built-in Thunderbolt controllers...

Linux 6.13 To Enhance Logic For Trusting Built-In Thunderbolt Controllers  Phoronix

LXQt 2.1 is now available as the latest feature release to this Qt-based lightweight desktop environment. Most significant with LXQt 2.1 is the introduction of the lxqt-wayland-session component...

Manjaro Linux want your system info with their new data collection tool  GamingOnLinux

LXQt 2.1 Desktop Environment Released with Initial Wayland Support  9to5Linux

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Nano is a simple and user-friendly command-line text editor for Linux, which is often used for basic text editing tasks,

The post How to Use Syntax Highlighting in Nano Editor first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Queued up over the past month into DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle has been initial support for Xe3 graphics to be found with Panther Lake processors. The initial Xe3 graphics driver support patches have been trickling in while the final drm-intel-next pull ahead of the Linux 6.13 merge window has readied support for actually being able to light up a display connected to Xe3 LPD graphics with Panther Lake...

Intel Panther Lake Display Support Squeezing Into Linux 6.13  Phoronix

Do You Use Bash or a Different Linux Shell?  How-To Geek

The x86-simd-sort project from Intel has been an interesting open-source software effort for much faster number sorting by using AVX-512. There's been lightning fast number sorting with AVX-512 and AVX2 code paths also added to broaden the appeal in helping CPUs without AVX-512. Projects like Numpy have been making use of this library while today x86-simd-sort 6.0 was released and also comes a few days after PyTorch has begun using this library too...

To clear up the ever-growing stack of laptops, I recently bought a TOUPUWAN 30-Slot Laptop/Tablet Storage Cart. This laptop/tablet storage cart can accommodate 32 devices in total while slots for up to 30 laptops/tablets 16.3-inches in size. It does have built-in power strips as well to easily facilitate charging of the devices while securely stored away but for my purposes I was just looking for something to better organize the mess of laptops I only occasionally pull out when running new Linux laptop benchmarks.

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.20 update released for everyone  GamingOnLinux

Linux Preps New AMD ERAPS Feature With EPYC Turin To Benefit Performance  Phoronix

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list last week and now queued already via tip/tip.git's "x86/bugs" Git branch is support for a new AMD CPU feature we haven't heard about until now... ERAPS, the Enhanced Return Address Prediction Security...

Linux Foundation Energy EVerest Project Joins Task 53 of the IEA  Electrical Construction & Maintenance (EC&M)

Best VPNs for Ubuntu in 2024: Free and Paid Options  Gizmodo