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The GNU C Library "glibc" 2.41 release should be out around the very end of January or start of February. With glibc 2.41 there are many new features coming to this widely-used libc implementation by Linux systems and elsewhere...

While there was the year-end holidays, daily activity on Phoronix doesn't let up and over the course of December there were 256 original news articles around Linux/open-source on the site along with 24 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Here's a look back at what excited Phoronix readers the most as we closed out 2024...

Prime Gaming January 3rd 2025 edition round-up for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Longtime KDE developer David Edmundson has recently been cleaning up some scripts he's been using personally for a few years to enhance the integration between the KDE desktop and Home Assistant for open-source home automation. This work has evolved into the KDE Internet of Things "Kiot" and is currently in a pre-alpha state for enhancing the support between KDE and home automation controls...

ESET recommends installing Linux if your unsupported Windows 11 PC can't update from 10  Neowin

The post How to Rename Files Using mmv for Advanced Renaming first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Renaming files in Linux is something we all do, whether it’s to organize our files better or to rename files

The post How to Rename Files Using mmv for Advanced Renaming first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

I Switched to Proton VPN and Here's What I Honestly Think About It  It's FOSS News

Merged back in 2022 for the Linux 5.19 kernel was the LoongArch port for that Chinese processor architecture derived from MIPS and inspired in part by RISC-V. Over the past two and a half years the LoongArch Linux kernel port has continued to mature while up to now it's always been about LoongArch 64-bit... But now a set of patches are looking to begin wiring up LoongArch 32-bit support for the Linux kernel...

Patches Proposed To Begin Plumbing 32-bit LoongArch CPU Support For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Well known AMD open-source Linux graphics developer Marek Olšák landed some nice Mesa 25.0 optimizations for Christmas and now in kicking off the new year he's managed another interesting set of patches for the AMD Radeon Linux graphics stack...

Ghostty: New Open Source Terminal That’s Spookily Good  OMG! Ubuntu!

New Year's Eve in New York City, According to Linux  Papermag

5 of the Best Flashcard Apps in Linux  Make Tech Easier

Linux Patches Updated For Experimental Arm Morello That Combines Arm + CHERIA ISA  Phoronix

Arm today sent out their third iteration of their Linux kernel patches for adding Arm Morello platform support to the kernel: an experimental extension of Armv8.2-A paired with the CHERI v7 ISA...

Queued up this week via the tip/tip.git's "x86/bugs" Git branch for the Linux kernel is AMD "SRSO_USER_KERNEL_NO" support as a new SRSO/Inception mitigation handling seemingly for Zen 5 processors and beyond...

Linux Prepares AMD "SRSO_USER_KERNEL_NO" Support For Zen 5 CPUs  Phoronix

GNOME vs. KDE Plasma: Top Linux Desktops Compared  How-To Geek

5 lightweight Linux distributions with very low system requirements  ZDNet

With the Intel Graphics Compiler having dropped Ice Lake and older support and in turn the Intel Compute Runtime dropping Ice Lake and older to just focus on newer Intel graphics hardware support, Fedora packagers and other stakeholders have been grappling with how to handle the situation. For Fedora 42 there's been a proposal for updating to the newer Intel Compute Runtime code for benefiting the more recent Intel graphics hardware while in recent days there's been talk of forking the legacy code...