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Best Linux distro for developers of 2024  TechRadar

Sent out on Tuesday was the modules pull request for Linux 6.13 that have some low-level improvements but it noted that the biggest kernel modules highlight wasn't in that pull request itself but had been added by way of the memory management pull. This was a change by a Microsoft engineer around caching of kernel modules into huge pages...

Microsoft Makes An Interesting Improvement To Kernel Modules With Linux 6.13  Phoronix

MIPS has begun working on the open-source compiler toolchain support for their P8700 RISC-V based processors. Initial patches posted today bring-up the MIPS P8700 RISC-V support for the LLVM compiler stack...

Days after announcing the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W for $7, Raspberry Pi today announced the Compute Module 5 at the $45 price point...

Merged for the Linux 6.12 kernel was the long-awaited real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel support and allowing it to be enabled across x86/x86_64, ARM64, and RISC-V CPU architectures. With the Linux 6.13 kernel, LoongArch is joining the RT party...

LoongArch Wires Up Real-Time Kernel Support & Lazy Preemption  Phoronix

Bootkitty, The First UEFI Bootkit Targeting Linux Servers  CybersecurityNews

ESET Research discovers WolfsBane, new Linux cyberespionage backdoor by China-aligned Gelsemium  EIN News

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Bootkitty: Analyzing the first UEFI bootkit for Linux  We Live Security

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In prior years the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has published an Ethical Tech Giving Guide for holiday shopping where they recommend products like old AMD Opteron motherboards and USB to parallel printer cables that "respect your freedoms" and meet their strict free software definitions. Out today is their newest annual FSF Ethical Tech Giving Guide...

Celebrate Thanksgiving by switching from Windows 11 to Linux with elementary OS 8  BetaNews

There are some new open-source/Linux details to note when it comes to the AMD accelerators in the Instinct "CDNA" land...

elementary OS 8 Arrives With New Mac-Like Functionality  How-To Geek

The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates were sent out on Monday for Linux 6.13 and include one very interesting new feature for this file-system: device aliasing as a means of being able to temporarily carve out a portion of the partition for other purposes...

F2FS Brings Interesting "Device Aliasing" Feature To Linux 6.13 To Carve Out Partition  Phoronix

VORAGO and Collabora Join Forces to Advance Linux-Based Innovation Beyond Earth's Orbit  Embedded Computing Design

elementary OS 8 “Circe” Officially Released, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  9to5Linux