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Citrine Sleet Poisons PyPi Packages with Mac & Linux Malware  Dark Reading

Amazon Donates OpenSearch To Linux Foundation  iProgrammer

For months there has been talk and speculations around Raspberry Pi working to release a Compute Module 5 (CM5) in putting the power of last year's Raspberry Pi 5 into the small form factor for various embedded/industrial applications. It's pretty much a given that the Compute Module 5 will come, it's just a matter of when. With recent activity by Canonical engineers working on Ubuntu Linux, it's looking like the CM5 could be here soon...

Ubuntu 24.10 Making Preparations For The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5  Phoronix

God of War Ragnarök released and Steam Deck Verified, needs a launch option for Desktop Linux  GamingOnLinux

Linux Foundation & CNCF Target ‘Patent Troll’ Non-Practicing Entities  Cloud Native Now

AWS Brings OpenSearch Under the Linux Foundation  Datanami

The Fastest AArch64 Linux Distribution On The 192-Core AmpereOne Review  Phoronix

When it comes to the question of the fastest x86_64 Linux distribution the answer is very easy with Intel's Clear Linux. But what about in the AArch64 world? When having the AmpereOne server in the lab curiosity got the best of me and I ran benchmarks across seven different Linux distributions on this Supermicro ARM server for seeing what platform had the fastest out-of-the-box Linux performance. The Linux distributions tested on this AmpereOne A192-32X server included Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.10 daily, Fedora Server 40, AlmaLinux 9.4, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Debian Testing, and CentOS Stream 10.

Real-time Linux has been integrated into the main kernel code following two decades of development  TechSpot

The HID subsystem updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel. Notable this time around are some new feature additions for the popular Wacom drawing tablet support...

New Wacom Drawing Tablet Driver Features With Linux 6.12  Phoronix

Real time officially comes to Linux ...  eeNews Europe

GNOME 46.5 Released with Mutter and GNOME Shell Improvements  9to5Linux

GNOME 46.5 Released with Mutter and GNOME Shell Improvements  9to5Linux

Most Linux distributions have been defaulting to MariaDB as the default MySQL server for years. Ubuntu though has been a notable outlier still relying on Oracle MySQL for the default MySQL service. A proposal raised by an Ubuntu developer hopes to change that for Ubuntu 25.04 in the new year...

Proposal Seeks To Replace MySQL With MariaDB By Default For Ubuntu 25.04  Phoronix

How Often Do You Use the Linux Terminal?  How-To Geek

After 20 years of painstaking work: Linux kernel now real-time capable  heise online

After seven months under review, Google's Gfxstream code has been upstreamed into Mesa 24.3 as a Vulkan virtualization solution...