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Intel engineer and Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki queued up several power management related patches this week for Intel's upcoming Core Ultra "Panther Lake" processors as well as the next-gen Xeon Clearwater Forest processors...

New Linux malware Pumakit manages to hide itself  Techzine Europe

Ready to ditch Windows? 5 factors to help you decide between Linux or MacOS  ZDNet

New Stealthy Linux Malware PUMAKIT With Unique Privilege Escalation Methods  CybersecurityNews

New Linux Rootkit PUMAKIT Uses Advanced Stealth Techniques to Evade Detection  The Hacker News

PUMA creeps through Linux with a stealthy rootkit attack  CSO Online

Bazzite: A Linux Distro Worth Gushing Over  Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet

Following the recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Beta, CentOS Stream 10 has now reached general availability status. CentOS Stream 10 defines the upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 that the RHEL 10 minor versions are created from and ultimately a preview of what's coming down the pipe for future RHEL 10 releases. CentOS Stream 10 had been available in a preview phase since earlier this year while now is considered GA...

CentOS Stream 10 Reaches GA With Linux 6.12, Python 3.12 & No X.Org Server  Phoronix

New stealthy Pumakit Linux rootkit malware spotted in the wild  BleepingComputer

Linux Mint 22.1 Is Now Available in Beta  How-To Geek

While Fedora Workstation has defaulted to using the Btrfs file-system for the past four years, only this past summer was the idea raised of creating a Fedora special interest group (SIG) around Btrfs to help advance efforts around this CoW file-system for Fedora Linux integration. This week marks the Fedora Btrfs SIG officially being established...

Btrfs SIG Established For Advancing Btrfs Interests On Fedora  Phoronix

Prime Gaming - December 12th edition round-up for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Building off last month's release of the LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha release for this free software office suite, out today is the first beta release of the upcoming LibreOffice 25.2...

How to Run Any Program from Any Linux Distro with Distrobox  Make Tech Easier

A new "Fedora COSMIC" spin of Fedora Linux has been proposed that would feature the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment currently being developed by Linux PC vendor System76...

Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Proposed For Fedora 42  Phoronix

Linux Mint 22.1 Beta is Now Available to Download  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Mint 22.1 Xia beta debuts with new features and refinements  BetaNews