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Pumakit - A Sophisticated Linux Rootkit Attack Critical Infrastructure  CybersecurityNews

Back in 2022 the PCI Express 7.0 specification was announced with hitting 128 GT/s and planned availability in 2025. Since then they have been iterating on the spec with PCI-SIG members and today they announced the PCI Express 7.0 v0.7 specification...

3 reasons Pop!_OS might be the best Linux distro for gamers  XDA Developers

Linux Mint 22.1 Xia frees your PC from the closed-source chains of proprietary software  BetaNews

NVIDIA release new GPU driver updates for Linux and Windows after announcing security issues  GamingOnLinux

Parallels adds x86 OS support for Apple Silicon — you can now run x86 Windows and Linux distros  Tom's Hardware

Linux Mint 22.1 Released, This is What’s New  OMG! Ubuntu!

The Most Exciting Kernel Optimizations, New Hardware Support & Other Linux 6.13 Features  Phoronix

With Linus Torvalds expected to release Linux 6.13 stable this coming Sunday, 19 January, here's a reminder about the most exciting features, performance optimizations, and new hardware support arriving for this first major kernel release of 2025...

Best SSH Client for Linux: 5 Tools for Faster Connections  Net Newsledger

Linux Mint 22.1 Released, Here’s Everything New  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Mint 22.1 'Xia' is out now with improved Wayland support  GamingOnLinux

Getting Started with Zephyr on Linux #AdafruitPlayground #Zephyr #Linux  Adafruit Blog

Intel Arc B570 Graphics Performance On Linux Review  Phoronix

Last month when Intel formally introduced Battlemage graphics their initial products in the B-Series were the B570 and B580 graphics cards. The B580 went on sale in December and we've been busy testing the B580 on Linux since while today the embargo expires on the Arc B570 with those graphics cards going on sale this morning. Here is a first look at the Intel Arc B570 graphics and compute performance under Linux with their latest open-source drivers.

An exciting change was just merged into Mesa 25.0 that has been about two years in the making... AMDGPU native context support for VirtIO to allow for using native OpenGL and Vulkan graphics drivers within guest virtual machines for better performance...

Linux Mint 22.1 is primed and ready for release - and I'm excited  ZDNet

Game save data backup tool Ludusavi v0.28 brings  GamingOnLinux

Debian 12.9 arrives, quickly followed by MX Linux 23.5  The Register

Tuxedo OS 20250115 launches with KDE Plasma 6.2.5, Vim 9.1, and more  Notebookcheck.net