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Encrypting Folders and Files on Linux Is Easy With VeraCrypt: Here's How  How-To Geek

Armbian Linux 24.8.1 improves hardware support and system stability  BetaNews

Armbian 24.8 Released with Linux Kernel 6.10, Expanded Desktop Options  9to5Linux

Rhino Linux 2024.2 horns in on Microsoft Windows 11  BetaNews

'The Linux of processors' — New breed of Chinese super CPUs emerge on US soil as universities back open source high performance RISC-V processors to be the next big thing in HPC  TechRadar

These 5 Linux Commands Make Reading Large Files Easier  How-To Geek

What Is Budgie on Linux and Should You Use It?  How-To Geek

Linux version of new Cicada ransomware targets VMware ESXi servers  BleepingComputer

Linux version of new Cicada ransomware targets VMware ESXi servers  BleepingComputer

Linux version of new Cicada ransomware targets VMware ESXi servers  BleepingComputer

Cicada3301 ransomware’s Linux encryptor targets VMware ESXi systems  BleepingComputer

Upcoming Garmin Watches, Windows Update, and Expected iPhone 16 Pricing  Jason Deegan

Windows Gamers Should Try Out This Gaming-Focused Linux OS  How-To Geek

New “sedexp” Linux Malware Remained Undetected For Two Years  Cyber Security News

Like with last week's Linux 6.11-rc5 release, Linux 6.11-rc6 is out a half-day early due to Linus Torvalds' ongoing foreign travels. Linux 6.11-rc6 brings many more fixes to this kernel that will debut as stable in mid-September,..

Linux 6.11-rc6 Released With More Bcachefs Fixes & Other Kernel Fixes  Phoronix

August was a very busy month with the first AMD Ryzen 9000 series "Zen 5" desktop processors going on sale, finally having AmpereOne 192-core Arm processors in the lab, Linux kernel development continuing to advance at a brisk pace, and a variety of other interesting software and hardware milestones. On Phoronix for the month were 213 original news articles authored by me as well as another 20 Linux hardware reviews / featured-length articles...

Arm engineer Mihail Atanassov proposed a set of "request for comments" patches this week for adding user submission support to the Panthor DRM driver that is used for handling newer Arm Mali graphics under Linux. This would allow user-space more easily to submit work directly to the GPU hardware without kernel intervention for better performance and management capabilities...

Panthor DRM Driver For Arm Mali Graphics Working On User Submission Handling  Phoronix

Intel has released a new version of their open-source Video Processing Library (VPL) for hardware-accelerated video encode / decode / processing across Intel graphics hardware...