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Manjaro 25.0 Released With Upgrades To Linux 6.12 Plus GNOME 48 & KDE Plasma 6.3

Phoronix - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 17:37
In addition to yesterday's alpha release of the semi-immutable Majaro Summit distribution, Manjaro Linux has now resolved Manjaro 25.0 as the newest version of this (non-immutable) Arch Linux based desktop operating system...

Oracle Releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8 Powered By Linux 6.12 LTS

Phoronix - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 08:40
Oracle today debuted the newest version of their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel "UEK" designed to be paired with their RHEL-derived Oracle Linux operating system as a heavily-patched version of the Linux kernel. With today's release of UEK 8 they have rebased atop the current Linux 6.12 long-term support codebase...

GNOME Shell Frippery Makes It Into Debian Unstable For A GNOME2-Like Experience

Phoronix - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 04:18
After nearly one and a half decades after the packaging request was made, GNOME Shell Frippery extensions have finally worked their way into Debian via the unstable archive for offering a GNOME2-like desktop experience...

Manjaro Summit Now In Alpha For Semi-Immutable, Atomically Updated Arch Linux Distro

Phoronix - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 03:43
For fans of the Arch-based Manjaro Linux distribution, the distribution team announced the public alpha release of Manjaro Summit: a new semi-immutable flavor along similar lines to Fedora Silverblue, Nitrux, Aeryn OS, openSUSE Aeon, and others...

Intel Engineer Preparing To Land Change For Cleaning Up 32-bit x86 Linux Kernel Code

Phoronix - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 02:20
The work talked about back in January for improving the 32-bit PAE Linux kernel code for Physical Address Extensions to better jive with the code around Page Table Isolation (PTI) for mitigating the Meltdown vulnerability could soon be merged...

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