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Oracle today announced the Oracle Linux Enhanced Diagnostics (OLED) as their newest project that aims to enhance the debugability of the Linux kernel...

Microsoft pulls a Windows as it breaks Linux on Intel CPUs and angers AMD in the process  Neowin

This portable, lightweight Linux distro has an old-school feel  ZDNet

How to create system restore points on Linux with Timeshift - and why you should  ZDNet

The "48.alpha" releases of GNOME Shell and Mutter were tagged on Sunday for this week's release of the GNOME 48 Alpha in leading up to the GNOME 48.0 stable release in mid-March...

DXVK v2.5.3 released with more improvements for Windows games on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Philip Rebohle working for Valve has just released DXVK 2.5.3 as the newest update to this Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 implementation over the Vulkan API that is used for enjoying older Windows games on Linux...

Say goodbye to Windows 11 and switch to MX Linux 23.5 for a faster PC  BetaNews

Last year an AMD engineer proposed the notion of "Attack Vector Controls" for the Linux kernel to re-think how the CPU security mitigation handling is done and making it easier for system administrators/users to toggle the mitigations they are concerned about or not...

Linux Attack Vector Controls Updated To More Easily Controlling CPU Security Mitigations  Phoronix

New Video games on PlayStation 5, Xbox X/S, PC, Mac, Linux: Release date, check features  The Economic Times

Fanatical's Diamond Collection for January 2025 offers up 16 games with good Linux / Steam Deck compatibility  GamingOnLinux

A change to the Linux 6.13 kernel contributed by a Microsoft engineer ended up changing Linux x86_64 code without proper authorization and in turn causing troubles for users and now set to be disabled ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable release expected next Sunday...

MX Linux 23.5 Released with Xfce 4.20 and Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS, Based on Debian 12.9  9to5Linux

How to install extra software, apps and games on SteamOS and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

How To Use AppArmor to Lock Down Linux Applications  ITPro Today

Alibaba Engineers Work To Address Suspend/Resume Bugs With The AMD Graphics Driver  Phoronix

Alibaba engineers have recently been working through some AMD Linux kernel graphics driver bugs uncovered during suspend-and-resume testing with AMD graphics cards...

NTSYNC driver for improving Windows games on Linux with Wine / Proton should finally land in Linux kernel 6.14  GamingOnLinux

Queued up into the networking subsystem's "net-next" branch last week ahead of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is AF_XDP zero-copy support for the common Intel Gigabit Ethernet "IGB" driver. With this the AF_XDP performance improvements can be quite dramatic in leveraging this zero-copy path...