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Intel’s NPU Driver for Linux is Now Available on the Snap Store  OMG! Ubuntu!

How to Track MySQL Metrics with Netdata on Linux  info-mods.com

Introduction To LINUX. Hey there all of you! | by Parabjit | Oct, 2024  Medium

Since purchasing an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" laptop for Linux testing last month, the performance has been coming in below expectations. Among the tests were finding Xe2 graphics on Lunar Lake performing slower that under Windows 11 and in comparison slower than Meteor Lake graphics on Linux. Intel engineers have been able to reproduce my original findings and they uncovered the culprit is a new ASUS laptop feature called AIPT. In turn a patch was posted today for supporting ASUS AIPT controls under Linux to fix this low Lunar Lake Linux performance...

Intel Posts Patch For Fixing/Boosting Lunar Lake Linux Performance On ASUS Laptops  Phoronix

How to update Ubuntu 24.04 to 24.10  Tom's Hardware

Several Phoronix readers have written in this Sunday over concerns of Bitwarden further moving away from open-source. Bitwarden is a password management service that leverages an encrypted vault and supports multiple clients/platforms. Bitwarden operates on a freemium model and has provided some code as open-source while there are new concerns over Bitwarden further pivoting away from open-source...

I Daily Drive Both Windows and Linux, Here's Why  How-To Geek

With ReiserFS having been deprecated for two years with plans to remove it in 2025, the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle for what will be the first major kernel release of the new year and past the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel is expected to do just that... ReiserFS is set to be stripped from the mainline kernel codebase...

ReiserFS File-System Expected To Be Removed With Linux 6.13  Phoronix

Patches posted this week by Oracle's Lorenzo Stoakes are the latest attempt at lightweight guard pages for the Linux kernel...

Qualcomm has upstreamed the audio firmware for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 "X1E80100" series laptop SoCs to linux-firmware.git...

Audio Firmware Upstreamed For Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 On Linux  Phoronix

GNU Boot is a "100% free software project aimed at replacing the non-free boot software" and is a downstream of Coreboot, GRUB, and SeaBIOS. While priding itself on being "100% free", last December they had to drop some motherboard support and CPU code after discovering they were shipping some files that are non-free by their free software standards. Today they announced another mistake in having inadvertently been shipping additional non-free code...

"100% Free" GNU Boot Discovers Again They Have Been Shipping Non-Free Code  Phoronix

Seamlessly Connect Your Android Phone and Linux Using GSConnect  It's FOSS

Thanks to funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund, GNOME developers have been working on greater USB permissions/controls for Flatpak-based Linux applications...

How To Create a Custom Linux App Menu With Zenity  Tom's Hardware

Building off yesterday's release of Wine 9.20, Wine-Staging 9.20 is now available for this experimental blend of Wine featuring 357 extra patches currently atop the upstream codebase for various testing/experimental features and functionality...

Merged back in 2019 was the Fieldbus system for connecting different systems/components/instruments within industrial environments. Five years later the code isn't being well maintained and looks like it will be on its way out the door if no one steps up to better maintain this driver support for industrial systems for process automation...