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KDE developers have been busy preparing for Plasma 6.2 with lots of bug fixing and polishing while also beginning to land some features for Plasma 6.3...

Oracle has shifted their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel to a Linux 6.10 base with UEK-next...

There’s No Lower Spec Linux Machine Than This One  Hackaday

Following the AMD ROCm 6.2 release from early August, ROCm 6.2.1 was released on Friday evening as the first point release to that series for this AMD GPU compute stack for Linux systems...

Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" Enters Public Beta Testing with Linux 6.11, GNOME 47  9to5Linux

Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” Enters Public Beta Testing with Linux 6.11, GNOME 47  9to5Linux

Wine 9.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software that enables running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

Ubuntu Linux 24.10 Oracular Oriole Beta released for testing  BetaNews

The beta release of Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" was released in time for some weekend testing...

Ubuntu 24.10 Beta Released For Testing  Phoronix

Wind River introduces eLxr Pro enterprise Linux distribution for cloud-to-edge deployments  Edge Industry Review

Citrine Sleet Poisons PyPi Packages with Mac & Linux Malware  Dark Reading

Amazon Donates OpenSearch To Linux Foundation  iProgrammer

For months there has been talk and speculations around Raspberry Pi working to release a Compute Module 5 (CM5) in putting the power of last year's Raspberry Pi 5 into the small form factor for various embedded/industrial applications. It's pretty much a given that the Compute Module 5 will come, it's just a matter of when. With recent activity by Canonical engineers working on Ubuntu Linux, it's looking like the CM5 could be here soon...

Ubuntu 24.10 Making Preparations For The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5  Phoronix

God of War Ragnarök released and Steam Deck Verified, needs a launch option for Desktop Linux  GamingOnLinux

Linux Foundation & CNCF Target ‘Patent Troll’ Non-Practicing Entities  Cloud Native Now

AWS Brings OpenSearch Under the Linux Foundation  Datanami

The Fastest AArch64 Linux Distribution On The 192-Core AmpereOne Review  Phoronix

When it comes to the question of the fastest x86_64 Linux distribution the answer is very easy with Intel's Clear Linux. But what about in the AArch64 world? When having the AmpereOne server in the lab curiosity got the best of me and I ran benchmarks across seven different Linux distributions on this Supermicro ARM server for seeing what platform had the fastest out-of-the-box Linux performance. The Linux distributions tested on this AmpereOne A192-32X server included Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.10 daily, Fedora Server 40, AlmaLinux 9.4, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Debian Testing, and CentOS Stream 10.