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What’s Your Favorite Linux File Manager?  How-To Geek

Essential Linux Security Practices | by Karthikeyan Nagaraj | Sep, 2024  Medium

The Network File System (NFS) changes have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.12 development cycle. Notable this time with NFS is adding LOCALIO protocol extension support that can lead to fairly "extreme" performance improvements in scenarios where the NFS client and server are on the same host...

Linux 6.12 NFS Adds LOCALIO Protocol For "Extreme" Performance Boost  Phoronix

Fwupd 1.9.25 Adds Support for Dell K2 Docks and More Intel USB4 Hubs  9to5Linux

Red Hat engineer Richard Hughes this morning released Fwupd 1.9.25 as the newest feature release to this open-source solution paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for making firmware updates on Linux a breeze for an increasing number of systems and peripherals. With Fwupd 1.9.25, the supported device list has grown a little bit longer...

Fwupd 1.9.25 Supports Firmware Updates For A Few More Devices Under Linux  Phoronix

The high performance open-source Mold linker has released version 2.34 with various improvements while also deciding to throw in the towel on DEC Alpha processor support...

Arch Linux-based Liya 2.1 rolls out with the 6.11.0-1 kernel  Notebookcheck.net

Cross-platform Nexus Mods app adds support for Mod Collections, fixes REDmod on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Bloke gets Linux to run on a 1971 processor  Fudzilla

Windows malware expands its reach, now targeting Linux systems  Tech Edition

Joshua Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics team has opened a Mesa merge request to support a proposed "frog-fifo-v1" protocol for Wayland to address the matter of "FIFO is fundamentally broken under Mesa's Wayland WSI right now."..

Intel Lunar Lake Linux Benchmarks Are Still Forthcoming  Phoronix

While there were many Windows reviews/benchmarks out Tuesday for Intel Core Ultra 200 Series "Lunar Lake" laptops on various websites, Linux tests are still awaiting due to having resorted to pre-ordering a Lunar Lake laptop myself for delivering Linux support/compatibility information and performance benchmarks. But hopefully by this time next week will be the initial data set...

Hacker miraculously gets an Intel 4004 to run Linux, takes about five days to boot  TechSpot

NVIDIA Mellanox Linux Driver Spearheads Multi-Path PCI As "A Sign Of Things To Come"  Phoronix

While open-source enthusiasts like to criticize NVIDIA for not maintaining upstream, in-tree kernel graphics driver support (though things have been changing there), for other areas of their vast hardware portfolio they are much better upstream Linux kernel citizens and often at the forefront of new driver innovations. One of the leading examples of that is around the NVIDIA Mellanox networking driver support. With Linux 6.12 they've landed a new feature that has been described as "a sign of things to come, I think we will see more of this in the next 10 years."..

This Windows malware is now evolving to target Linux systems  TechRadar

Linux takes 4.76 days to boot on an ancient Intel 4004 CPU — CPU precedes the OS by 20 years  Tom's Hardware