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Malware Infects Linux and macOS via Typosquatted Go Packages  HackRead

Trailmakers 2.0: Pioneers is out now and it's like a whole new game  GamingOnLinux

I Tried CachyOS, and Now It Might Be My New Main Distro  How-To Geek

THE FINALS broken on Linux / Steam Deck (yes again) with Update 5.12.0  GamingOnLinux

This fun tiling window manager may be rough around the edges - but it has big potential  ZDNet

SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

SiFive recently sent over a review sample of the much anticipated HiFive Premier P550 developer board, their newest RISC-V creation featuring four RISC-V cores, Imagination AXM-8-256 integrated GPU, Gigabit Ethernet, PCIe x16 slot, and 16GB or 32GB of RAM. The HiFive Premier P550 is a modern RISC-V developer board capable of desktop uses, developer build boxes, and similar with pricing starting out at $399 USD. Here is a look at the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 as well as comparison benchmarks of this RISC-V board to the popular Raspberry Pi single board computers.

PipeWire 1.4 Is Out with RISC-V Support, MIDI2 Support, JACK Control API, and More  9to5Linux

Wim Taymans of Red Hat today released PipeWire 1.4 as the newest major update for this leading open-source software to replace PulseAudio, JACK, and other solutions on the modern Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams in a very excellent way...

With the release of Blender 4.3 last November an experimental Vulkan back-end was added and it continues to be improved upon for modernizing this 3D creation suite for digital artists and serving a variety of other purposes. The upcoming Blender 4.4 release will further refine the Vulkan support while later in the year it should be reaching production readiness...

The FreeBSD Foundation paired with resources committed by AMD, Dell, and Framework are working to improve FreeBSD laptop support. In recent months there have been FreeBSD development efforts to improve the power management support with modern laptops as well as a strong focus on enhancing the WiFi driver support. A status update was issued yesterday for highlighting the latest FreeBSD laptops efforts...

FEX 2503 is out as the newest monthly update to this open-source emulator that enables the ability to run Linux x86_64 binaries on Linux ARM64 (AArch64) hosts...

Rui Ueyama released Mold 2.37 today as the newest feature update to this high performance linker as an alternative to GNU Gold and LLVM LLD...

Path of Exile 2 gets a fix for Linux / Steam Deck being detected as cheating  GamingOnLinux

MangoHud performance overlay v0.8.1 reworks FPS metrics, adds FEX stats, fixes bugs  GamingOnLinux

Mesa 25.0.1 released with fixes for Avowed and Total War Warhammer III  GamingOnLinux

Upcoming Huawei PCs could pre-install Linux instead of HarmonyOS  HC Newsroom

7 Malicious Go Packages Target Linux & macOS to Deploy Stealthy Malware Loader  GBHackers

Exploring the Hybrid Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Distribution  Linux Journal

Typosquatted Go Packages Distribute Malware Loader Targeting Linux And MacOS  Information Security Buzz