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Thunderbird 135 Brings Fixes for IMAP, POP3, and Calendar Users  info-mods.com

Linux Kernel 6.14 Released - What's New With rc2!  CybersecurityNews

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 9th, 2025  9to5Linux

Linux OS gluing Automotive Dashboard  The Branding Iron

The second weekly release candidate of Linux 6.14 is now available for testing as a rather light update for the week...

Linux 6.14-rc2 Released With Apple Silicon Maintainer Change, Bcachefs Fixes  Phoronix

How to use the du command  Network World

ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors v8.3 now handles Apple iWork files on Windows, macOS, and Linux  BetaNews

Wine vs. Bottles vs. Proton: Which Is Best for Windows Apps on Linux?  How-To Geek

Linux Patches Adjust AC Plug/Unplug Behavior During s2idle To Match Windows  Phoronix

A set of patches sent out on Saturday by AMD Linux engineer Mario Limonciello seek to adjust the Linux behavior for laptops/handhelds during AC plug/unplug events during s2idle to better match that of Microsoft Windows 11...

Your Chance To Get A Head (A Gnu Head, Specifically)  Hackaday

Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games  GamingOnLinux

This week besides the drama over Apple Silicon maintainership for the upstream Linux kernel, in recent days there has also been a number of rather subtle changes to the maintainership of several Intel Linux kernel drivers...

This Linux Tool Lets You Search DuckDuckGo in the Terminal  How-To Geek

Intel's ISPC project as the Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as this C language variant for Single Program, Multiple Data programming on CPUs and GPUs is out with a new release...

5 Reasons to Install a Linux VM (And 5 Reasons Not To)  How-To Geek

New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

This week was the dramatic decision by Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin to step down as upstream kernel maintainer for the Apple Silicon (ARM) code following friction with other kernel developers over Rust affairs within the kernel. He still intends to contribute code to Asahi Linux's downstream kernel and Linus Torvalds has already merged the patch dropping him as an upstream maintainer. Now a new co-maintainer has volunteered to help oversee the Apple Silicon code for the mainline kernel...

Linux FineIBT-BHI Updated For Toughening Up FineIBT Kernel Defenses  Phoronix