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8 Defining Moments in the Open Source and Linux World: 2024 Edition  It's FOSS News

Linux: An Intro to the Flatpak Universal Package Manager  The New Stack

Since AMD Zen 3 processors there has been the INVLPGB instruction for invalidating TLB entries for a range of pages with broadcast. As mentioned back during the AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" launch, INVLPGB usage around this new instruction was limited... Over the past nearly four years the INVLPGB use has been limited in part because Intel CPUs do not support it but there is now a Linux kernel patch series for making use of INVLPGB for some nice performance benefits...

Linux Kernel Patches To Use AMD INVLPGB Instruction Show Huge Speed-Up  Phoronix

Intel processors have long identified in the Family 6 series going back to the 1990s but over the past number of months Intel engineers have been adapting the Linux kernel to prepare for a post Family 6 Intel CPU era for the model/family CPU identification handling. Patches posted in September introduced Diamond Rapids support as the first Intel Family 19 CPU while new patches for the Linux kernel are indicating Intel will be using both Family 18 and Family 19 identification for future processor models...

Intel To Use Both Family 18 And Family 19 Identification For Upcoming CPUs  Phoronix

Your Own Linux Desktop in the Cloud and in Your Pocket, for Free  How-To Geek

Merged this week to the LLVM Git codebase ahead of next year's LLVM 20 release is a simple telemetry framework...

For those interested in making use of Linux on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops that have been appearing since earlier this year, there's a new embedded controller (EC) driver posted for the Linux kernel for this EC that's found on most of the X1 laptop models...

Linux Driver Posted For The EC Found On Most Snapdragon X1 Laptops  Phoronix

For devoted SysVinit users trying to avoid systemd still on Linux systems in 2025, SysVinit 3.12 has been released for the holidays with the latest fixes to this open-source init system...

SysVinit 3.12 Brings Fixes & Better Documentation For Christmas  Phoronix

Week in review: MUT-1244 targets both security workers and threat actors, Kali Linux 2024.4 released  Help Net Security

Best Linux Hosting Providers of 2024 (Tested and Reviewed)  Gizmodo

How to Install Smart Connect App in Linux Using Wine | by Karthikeyan Nagaraj | Infosec Matrix | Dec, 2024  Medium

Debuting as a new development release today was XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.19.1 as this portal front-end service for Flatpak sandboxed apps and other desktop containment frameworks. The XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.19.1 milestone is exposing new and expanded portal capabilities for dealing with various hardware devices and APIs...

Will ‘Civ 7’ Run On Steam Deck And Linux?  Forbes

In time for editing any end-of-year/holiday photos, Darktable 5.0 is out today as a major update to this open-source RAW photography workflow application...

CachyOS Now Uses AutoFDO Kernel as Default Across All Supported Architectures  9to5Linux

The CachyOS December 2024 update is out today as the newest monthly release to this performance-optimized, Arch Linux based operating system...