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ESET recommends installing Linux if your unsupported Windows 11 PC can't update from 10  Neowin

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Renaming files in Linux is something we all do, whether it’s to organize our files better or to rename files

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I Switched to Proton VPN and Here's What I Honestly Think About It  It's FOSS News

Merged back in 2022 for the Linux 5.19 kernel was the LoongArch port for that Chinese processor architecture derived from MIPS and inspired in part by RISC-V. Over the past two and a half years the LoongArch Linux kernel port has continued to mature while up to now it's always been about LoongArch 64-bit... But now a set of patches are looking to begin wiring up LoongArch 32-bit support for the Linux kernel...

Patches Proposed To Begin Plumbing 32-bit LoongArch CPU Support For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Well known AMD open-source Linux graphics developer Marek Olšák landed some nice Mesa 25.0 optimizations for Christmas and now in kicking off the new year he's managed another interesting set of patches for the AMD Radeon Linux graphics stack...

Ghostty: New Open Source Terminal That’s Spookily Good  OMG! Ubuntu!

New Year's Eve in New York City, According to Linux  Papermag

5 of the Best Flashcard Apps in Linux  Make Tech Easier

Linux Patches Updated For Experimental Arm Morello That Combines Arm + CHERIA ISA  Phoronix

Arm today sent out their third iteration of their Linux kernel patches for adding Arm Morello platform support to the kernel: an experimental extension of Armv8.2-A paired with the CHERI v7 ISA...

Queued up this week via the tip/tip.git's "x86/bugs" Git branch for the Linux kernel is AMD "SRSO_USER_KERNEL_NO" support as a new SRSO/Inception mitigation handling seemingly for Zen 5 processors and beyond...

Linux Prepares AMD "SRSO_USER_KERNEL_NO" Support For Zen 5 CPUs  Phoronix

GNOME vs. KDE Plasma: Top Linux Desktops Compared  How-To Geek

5 lightweight Linux distributions with very low system requirements  ZDNet

With the Intel Graphics Compiler having dropped Ice Lake and older support and in turn the Intel Compute Runtime dropping Ice Lake and older to just focus on newer Intel graphics hardware support, Fedora packagers and other stakeholders have been grappling with how to handle the situation. For Fedora 42 there's been a proposal for updating to the newer Intel Compute Runtime code for benefiting the more recent Intel graphics hardware while in recent days there's been talk of forking the legacy code...

ShredOS is an entire OS just for destroying data  Boing Boing

AMD Zen 5 Captivated Linux Reader Interest In 2024  Phoronix

With 2024 in the books, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and benchmark articles for 2024. In addition to the three thousand original Linux/open-source news articles last year, there was 191 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles written by myself. AMD Zen 5 on Linux easily dominated the list of most popular articles for the year along with ZLUDA and several of the Intel Arrow Lake and Granite Rapids articles plus the Framework 16 laptop...

Fedora-based Gaming Distro 'Nobara 41' Releases With a New Tweak Tool and a Change for NVIDIA Users  It's FOSS News