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Debian 12.6 Released With Many Security Updates & Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Sun, 06/30/2024 - 18:05
For those on the Debian stable train, Debian 12.6 is out this weekend as the newest point release to Debian Bookworm...

Linux Prepares New Spectre BHI Mitigation Option For Cloud Environments

Phoronix - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 20:24
For the Branch History Injection variant of Spectre (Spectre BHI) there is a patch pending to add a new mitigation option for that two year old CPU security vulnerability...

Chrome's Coreboot Firmware Adapting For 64-bit Boot, Prepping For Intel Panther Lake

Phoronix - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 18:39
The Open-Source Firmware Foundation is out with an interesting blog post by Google firmware engineer Subrata Banik around adapting the Coreboot-based Chrome AP Firmware for 64-bit booting. The transition to 64-bit booting is happening for the system firmware powering Chromebooks and other Chrome devices and is driven in part for Intel Panther Lake generation hardware...

GNOME Ends Out June With New Libadwaita Addition, Optional Building Without X11

Phoronix - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 18:23
This Week in GNOME is out with the latest summary to highlight all of the interesting changes this week...

Niri 0.1.7 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds Fractional Scaling

Phoronix - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 17:49
Niri 0.1.7 is out today as the latest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. While the version number may not signify it, Niri 0.1.7 is quite a notable feature update...

KDE Developers Fix More Bugs For Plasma 6.1, Begin More Feature Work On Plasma 6.2

Phoronix - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 17:33
KDE developers have still been busy addressing early fallout from the Plasma 6.1 desktop that released earlier this month while also beginning more feature activity for Plasma 6.2...

RHCSA Series: Learn to Operate and Manage Linux Servers – Part 7

Tecmint - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 13:22
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As a Linux System Administrator, you need to have a firm grasp of basic administration concepts for you to effectively

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Wine 9.12 Lands Rewrite Of CMD.EXE Engine & Other Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 08:27
Wine 9.12 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release and in passing roughly the half-way point before Wine 10.0 stable enters the sights for early 2025...

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