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Linux Patches Enable Partially-Working, Snapdragon-Powered Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G  Phoronix

Supercharge Your Command Prompt with Zsh and Oh My Zsh  How-To Geek

Do You Use a Custom Launcher on Your Android?  Review Geek

Double Debian update: 11.11 and 12.7 arrive at once  The Register

Linux Ransomware Threats: How Attackers Target Linux Systems  ITPro Today

Mozilla is interested in a Rust-written JPEG-XL image decoder for its memory safety characteristics compared to the existing C++ code they rely on for JPEG-XL image support in Firefox. While Google previously removed JPEG-XL support from Chrome/Chromium, it may be Google that comes to the rescue and writes a Rust-based JPEG-XL image decoder that can then be shipped by Firefox...

Linux 6.11 introduces block atomic write support including for NVMe and SCSI devices. With a new set of patches posted this week, atomic write support is wired up for the RAID0 MD code...

Linux Patches Posted For RAID0 Atomic Write Support  Phoronix

There are six accepted blocker bugs so far for the Fedora 41 Beta and three of them all pertain to Raspberry Pi issues...

SteamFork is yet another Linux distribution aiming to be a SteamOS-like for handhelds  GamingOnLinux

You Can't Remove Windows 11's 'AI' Recall Feature, But You Can Install Linux Instead  It's FOSS News

Weston 14.0 was released today as the newest feature release for this reference Wayland compositor...

Bad Reasons to Update Your Linux Kernel  Security Boulevard

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Due to its Rolling Release model which embraces cutting-edge software Arch Linux was not designed and developed to run as

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Core, Extra, Multilib? Unraveling the Arch Linux Repositories  It's FOSS

New Cicada3301 virus attacks Windows and Linux  gagadget.com

New Patches Bring Rust Linux Kernel Support To MIPS  Phoronix

When it comes to the Rust programming language support within the Linux kernel one of the limitations is that the CPU architecture support isn't as widespread. Currently Rust for Linux supports x86_64, AArch64 (ARM64) little-endian, LoongArch, and RISC-V. While those cover the main targets, POWER is notably missing and many other niche CPU architectures supported by the Linux kernel especially for aging platforms. Patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list would extend the Rust support to MIPS...

Windows and Linux vulnerable to oddly familiar Cicada3301 ransomware  Notebookcheck.net

Rockchip 3566  Hackaday