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Linux Driver Posted For The EC Found On Most Snapdragon X1 Laptops  Phoronix

For devoted SysVinit users trying to avoid systemd still on Linux systems in 2025, SysVinit 3.12 has been released for the holidays with the latest fixes to this open-source init system...

SysVinit 3.12 Brings Fixes & Better Documentation For Christmas  Phoronix

Week in review: MUT-1244 targets both security workers and threat actors, Kali Linux 2024.4 released  Help Net Security

Best Linux Hosting Providers of 2024 (Tested and Reviewed)  Gizmodo

How to Install Smart Connect App in Linux Using Wine | by Karthikeyan Nagaraj | Infosec Matrix | Dec, 2024  Medium

Debuting as a new development release today was XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.19.1 as this portal front-end service for Flatpak sandboxed apps and other desktop containment frameworks. The XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.19.1 milestone is exposing new and expanded portal capabilities for dealing with various hardware devices and APIs...

Will ‘Civ 7’ Run On Steam Deck And Linux?  Forbes

In time for editing any end-of-year/holiday photos, Darktable 5.0 is out today as a major update to this open-source RAW photography workflow application...

CachyOS Now Uses AutoFDO Kernel as Default Across All Supported Architectures  9to5Linux

The CachyOS December 2024 update is out today as the newest monthly release to this performance-optimized, Arch Linux based operating system...

CachyOS Update Now Uses AutoFDO-Optimized Kernel, Rusticl Driver  Phoronix

Vuls: A Free, Open Source Vulnerability Scanner for Linux  The New Stack

The latest work that Raspberry Pi is working to upstream to the mainline Linux kernel is a HEVC/H.265 video decode driver that works on Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single board computers...

Raspberry Pi HEVC Decoder Driver Posted For Linux Kernel Review  Phoronix

Rhino Linux Is One of the Most Innovative Linux Distros  The New Stack

Want a Really Lightweight Desktop Linux Experience? Try a Window Manager  MSN

The widely-used Curl project has removed support for its Rust-written Hyper HTTP back-end that they were experimentally shipping for several years. The removal of this Rust back-end comes from having little end-user and developer interest in this portion of the code...

I converted this Windows 11 Mini PC into a Linux workstation - and didn't regret it  ZDNet

AdaptiveCpp 24.10 is out today as this implementation of SYCL and C++ standard parallelism for CPUs and GPUs across hardware vendors. This compiler for C++ heterogeneous programming models has tacked on more features and additional performance optimizations with this update...