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Niri 0.1.9 is out today as the latest update to this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that is written in Rust...

Casilda is a new open-source project by GNOME developer Juan Pablo Ugarte to serve as a Wayland compositor widget. Casilda allows for embedding other processes windows within a GTK4 application...

Ahead of the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window opening on Monday, the printk updates were submitted in advance given the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit also taking place next week in Vienna. Notable with the printk updates is finishing up the NBCON console work that is notable as the last major blocker before real-time (PREEMPT_RT) support can be finally mainlined...

The EROFS read-only file-system changes have been submitted now for ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.12 merge window. Notable this cycle is EROFS adding support for file-backed mounts...

EROFS Adding Support For File-Backed Mounts To Benefit Containers & Sandboxes  Phoronix

KDE developers were busy this week in Germany for their annual Akademy developer conference but they still managed to release a Plasma 6.2 Beta as well as some early feature work toward Plasma 6.3...

Best Resources for Learning Linux Administration  Analytics Insight

Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat  Notebookcheck.net

Tuxedo introduces Gemini 17 Gen3: Powerful 17-inch laptop with Ryzen 9 and RTX 4070 for Linux  gagadget.com

GNOME developers have been making progress on being able to individually encrypt user home directories as well as modernizing platform infrastructure as part of the investments made by Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund...

KDE Frameworks 6.6 Is Out with Support for Cross-Desktop Thumbnail Generators  9to5Linux

Haiku OS R1 Beta 5 Is Keeping the BeOS Dream Alive  How-To Geek

As written about early in the year, future Intel CPUs will be moving past the "Family 6" identification used since the mid-1990s with the P6 micro-architecture. Since then Intel has continued releasing new CPUs under "Family 6" with different model IDs while AMD has been more open to changing its Family ID every Zen generation or two. With Intel using Family 6 for so long it led to a lot of Linux kernel code just relying on Model ID comparisons for determining between Intel CPU generations and the like. Thus a lot of Intel CPU model handling reworks are needed for preparing future Intel CPU generations that will no longer be in Family 6. With Linux 6.12 it looks like that work will be wrapping up...

Linux 6.12 Finishing The Transition For Moving Intel CPUs Past The "Family 6" Era  Phoronix

AMD engineers today posted the first "request for comments" patches in enabling support for Secure AVIC guest handling as a new hardware feature with upcoming processors...

Tuxedo Gemini 17 Gen3 Linux laptop launched with up to RTX 4070 Laptop GPU, Ryzen 9 HX CPU, 96 GB of RAM and 8 TB of storage  Notebookcheck.net

Tuxedo Gemini 17 Gen3 linux laptop launched with up to RTX 4070 Laptop GPU, Ryzen 9 HX CPU, 96 GB of RAM and 8 TB of storage  Notebookcheck.net

New Linux malware called Hadooken targets Oracle WebLogic servers  Security Affairs

The Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used on Windows as a shader compiler back-end and both for Windows/Linux as part of their OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero compute stack can now be compiled for RISC-V 64-bit...

The BeOS-inspired Haiku OS is out today with its fifth beta release as it works toward the long-awaited Haiku R1 stable release...