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Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.10-rc7 as the latest weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 6.10 kernel...

Linux 6.10 Is Shaping Up Well Or It Might Just Be Due To 4th Of July Week  Phoronix

GDB 15.1 was released on Sunday as the first version in the GNU Debugger 15 branch for this widely-used, open-source debugging solution...

Direct3D 8 support by way of the D8VK project has now been merged into DXVK, the widely relied upon open-source software for mapping Direct3D 9/10/11 atop Vulkan that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying Windows games on Linux...

Linux Mint 22 faces uncertain July release as critical bugs threaten stability  BetaNews

Self-hosting: Installing your first virtual machines on the Proxmox hypervisor  Neowin

How to Manage Linux Storage  The New Stack

Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 22 aims for release this month after a busier than usual period of bug fixing...

Linux Mint 22 Aims To Be Out This Month After Fixing Many Bugs  Phoronix

Upstreamed to the mainline Linux kernel last year was HID BPF as a means of more easily shipping new drivers and in particular quirks/workarounds for different HID devices. This allows for some nice continued innovations around (e)BPF within the Linux kernel. With Linux 6.11 there is yet more HID BPF capabilities to be upstreamed as well as new drivers...

More HID BPF Functionality & New Drivers For Linux 6.11  Phoronix

When it comes to (non-Apple) ARM laptops all the excitement these days is around the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC. But for those that happen to have a 5+ year old Lenovo Yoga C630 WOS laptop or come across one in a bargain bin, the Linux kernel is seeing improved support for this older ARM laptop powered by an aging Snadragon 850 SoC...

Linux Seeing Improved Support For The Lenovo Yoga C630 WOS ARM Laptop After Five Years  Phoronix

The Linux kernel's block subsystem for storage is poised to introduce support for atomic writes with the upcoming Linux 6.11 merge window...

Hacking A Brother Label Maker: Is Your CUPS Half Empty Or Half Full?  Hackaday

How to Install Microsoft Edge on Ubuntu & Linux Mint  OMG! Ubuntu!

How to Install Chromium on Ubuntu (Snap or DEB Package)  OMG! Ubuntu!

CVE-2024-6387: New OpenSSH RegreSSHion Vulnerability Gives Hackers Root Access on Linux Servers – 700,000...  Security Boulevard

5 Terminal Commands You Can Run on Windows that Give Big Hacker Vibes  How-To Geek

New Mallox Ransomware Variant Targets Linux Systems  HackRead