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Rustls was initially talked up as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language for its memory safety guarantees. But now besides the talked up advantages due to being written in Rust, it has reached the point of reportedly being faster than both OpenSSL and BoringSSL...

Hacking the Linux Kernel in Ada - Part 1  Embedded Computing Design

Quietly merged into this week's Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel was a patch that removes a number of kernel maintainers from being noted in the official MAINTAINERS file that recognizes all of the driver and subsystem maintainers...

Anbernic RG CubeXX is a $60 gaming handheld with a 4 inch, 720 x 720 pixel display and a Linux-based OS  Liliputing

AlmaLinux Kitten 10 has been introduced today as what will be the next iteration of this community-based, RHEL/CentOS-derived enterprise-grade Linux distribution. AlmaLinux Kitten 10 is tracking the CentOS Stream 10 sources for what will eventually become the base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10...

AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Now Available For Testing, Derived From CentOS Stream 10  Phoronix

System76 and Ampere look to drive innovation in automotive tech with new Arm-powered Linux desktop  TechRadar

Linus Torvalds is "fed up with buggy hardware and completely theoretical attacks" — Linux kernel creator lashes out ahead of proposed kernel code modifications  Tom's Hardware

System76 Thelio Astra Reviewed: High-End ARM64 Developer Desktop Review  Phoronix

System76 Thelio Astra Combines Linux With a 128-Core ARM CPU  How-To Geek

System76 is announcing one of their most innovative and interesting products going back to their Launch Configurable Keyboard and HP Dev One collaboration: the System76 Thelio Astra. The Thelio Astra is a high-end ARM64 desktop system geared for developers with a focus on AI / STEM / self-driving technologies and powered by Ampere Computing and NVIDIA.

System76 Unveils the Thelio Astra ARM64 Ampere-Powered Desktop Computer  9to5Linux

KDE Plasma 6.2.2 Is Out Now to Improve Compatibility with Specific Hardware  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 565.57.01 Beta has Wayland and HDR improvements, plus DXVK and VKD3D optimizations  GamingOnLinux

The first NVIDIA R565 series Linux driver beta was released this morning in the form of the NVIDIA 565.57.01 driver release...

NVIDIA R565 Linux Driver Beta Brings Improvements For Wayland, DMA-BUF & VKD3D  Phoronix

7 Linux Distros I Still Miss in 2024  It's FOSS

Clementine Music Player Is Kind of Back After 8 Years!  It's FOSS News

Intel's compiler engineers today posted a number of feature patches for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for enabling new ISA features to be found with next-generation Xeon "Diamond Rapids" processors. Excitingly a number of new Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) features are coming with next-gen Intel Xeon...

Intel Compute Runtime 24.39.31294.12 was released on Monday as the newest update to this open-source Intel integrated/discrete graphics compute stack for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support for their hardware on Windows and Linux...