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The Rise of Linux. This story is all about the focus and… | by hamza alam | Dec, 2024  Medium

Critical Vulnerability in Python Affected MacOS or Linux Leads to Exploiting The Memory  CybersecurityNews

Smartphone Runs Home Server  Hackaday

South Korean web giant Naver creates its own Linux distro  The Register

Gaming on openSUSE gets a huge boost with built in GPU switching  Notebookcheck.net

Back in May for the Linux 6.10 kernel the initial bits of the NTSYNC driver was upstreamed for helping to emulate the Windows NT synchronization primitives so Windows games running under Wine/Proton (such as Valve's Steam Play) can enjoy a very nice performance boost. That NTSYNC code for Linux 6.10 wasn't yet in functioning shape and now a half-year later the newest NTSYNC patch series has been sent out for review...

Manjaro 24.2 "Yonada" launches with the latest LTS Linux kernel and multiple updated packages  Notebookcheck.net

This Linux distribution surprised me with its minimalistic yet highly-functional operating system  ZDNet

GNU Shepherd as a service manager for both system and user services that is used by Guix and relying on Guile Scheme has finally reached version 1.0. For those not pleased with systemd, GNU Shepherd can be used as an init system and now has finally crossed the version 1.0 milestone after 21 years of development...

GNU Shepherd 1.0 Service Manager Released As "Solid Tool" Alternative To systemd  Phoronix

GNOME 46.7 Improves Accessibility of Quick Settings’ Keyboard Backlight Toggle  9to5Linux

GNOME 46.7 Improves Accessibility of Quick Settings’ Keyboard Backlight Toggle  9to5Linux

It's been a few months since running any fresh Linux graphics driver comparison benchmarks. But given the imminent availability of the first Intel Arc Battlemage graphics cards, I have been carrying out some fresh Linux GPU driver testing. Given the recently-stabilized NVIDIA R565 Linux driver series and then also the newest upstream code in Linux 6.13 Git and Mesa 25.0-devel for the AMD Radeon and Intel Arc Graphics hardware on their open-source drivers, here is a fresh look at where Intel / AMD / NVIDIA mid-range graphics stand today on Ubuntu Linux with the leading-edge drivers.

NVIDIA R565 vs. Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0 Git AMD / Intel Graphics For Linux Gaming  Phoronix

5 of the More Useful Note-taking Apps in Linux  Make Tech Easier

Linux 6.12 kernel received official LTS status for at least 2 years  Mezha.Media

Linux 6.12 kernel received official LTS status for at least 2 years  Mezha.Media

Finally Putting The RK1 Through Its Paces  Hackaday

Finally Putting The RK1 Through Its Paces  Hackaday

4 reasons containers are better than VMs  XDA Developers