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Fedora Hummingbird Introduces a Container-Native Rolling Linux Variant  Linuxiac

Copy.Fail Linux Vulnerability  Security Boulevard

A new driver expected to land in the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is the ARCTIC Fan Controller driver to allow fan speed monitoring and PWM controls for this upcoming ARCTIC product. Making this new driver all the more exciting is that it was worked on by ARCTIC directly compared to the typical workflow for such desktop/consumer hardware peripherals often being left up to the reverse-engineering, open-source community...

Red Hat offers endless Linux support — for a fee  cio.com

Red Hat offers endless Linux support — for a fee  Network World

Red Hat adds support for agentic AI development  cio.com

Red Hat expands agentic AI strategy with new inference, automation and sovereignty capabilities  SiliconANGLE

Red Hat Extends Infrastructure Stability for Decades with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long-Life Add-On  Business Wire

RHEL 10.2: post-quantum, AI, and Long-Life Add-on  Techzine Global

KDE Plasma 6.6.5 Is Out Now to Improve Performance for NVIDIA GPU Users  9to5Linux

Further expanded AMD HDMI 2.1 support is coming to Linux now with FRL and DSC  GamingOnLinux

Linux 7.0.6 is Out, and It Fully Patches the Dirty Frag Exploit  It's FOSS

Two years without a laptop taught me what Android can't do (and Linux can)  How-To Geek

Prominent Linux kernel engineer Peter Zijlstra of Intel has been working on a set of scheduler patches to help with enhancing the behavior and delivering better results, especially for aging hardware he described as a "potato" -- an Intel Sandy Bridge desktop CPU with AMD Radeon RX 580 Polaris graphics. Benchmark results are promising from this work for gaming on old hardware while other workloads may ultimately stand to benefit too...

Fresh off the milestone of Dell and Lenovo becoming premier sponsors of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), there is a new feature release of the Fwupd firmware updating tool for Linux systems...

Fwupd 2.1.3 Brings Firmware Updating To Modular Smartphones  Phoronix

Fwupd 2.1.3 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for SHIFT6mq and SHIFTphone 8  9to5Linux

For years Intel has been developing the Low Power Mode Daemon "LPMD" to help their hybrid laptop and desktop CPUs deliver optimal power efficiency under Linux. Intel LPMD leverages hardware hints and other features for optimizing active idle power of the processor and putting the system into lower power modes where possible. This tool could soon call the Linux kernel source tree its new home...

Intel Looking To Move Their Low-Power Mode Daemon Into The Linux Kernel Source Tree  Phoronix

Microsoft exec: Windows 11 speed boost isn't 'cheating' because Linux and macOS also do it  TweakTown