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The Landlock Linux security module that was added to the mainline Linux kernel four years ago for unprivileged application sandboxing and similar access controls has a rather weird update for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel: Land lock can now deal with "weird files"...

Oracle emits 603 patches, names one it wants you to worry about soon  The Register

With Debian 13 due out in the coming months, the Debian 13 artwork/theme was recently announced as well as the Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 release. The latest is the freeze dates for Debian 13.0 being announced today...

LibreELEC 12.0.2, the Linux distribution for Kodi, gets feature-packed Omega 21.2 update  BetaNews

AMD reveals AMDGPU Composition Stack, a fork of Wayland's Weston compositor for advancing the Linux desktop  GamingOnLinux

Windows compatibility layer Wine 10.0 out now bringing Wayland and ARM64EC support, new FFmpeg multimedia back-end  GamingOnLinux

In an Intel blog post today they outlined their desire for a more modular PC design to enhance repairability and reduce e-waste. It's very much along similar lines of the Framework Computer upgradeable and easily serviceable laptops. With some luck hopefully we will be seeing more modular PC designs moving forward...

Wine 10.0 released, adding Linux compatibility for Arm Windows apps  Ars Technica

Fake Homebrew site leverages Google ads to target macOS, Linux devices  SC Media

Archinstall 3.0.2 was just tagged as the newest version of this quick and easy, text-based installer for the Arch Linux operating system...

Arch Linux Installer Adds Wayfire As A Desktop Option, Btrfs Improvements  Phoronix

Arch Linux Installer Archinstall Gets Support for the Wayfire Wayland Compositor  9to5Linux

4 Ways to Check If a Game Will Run on Linux  How-To Geek

In October it will mark 40 years since the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded by Richard Stallman. In marking forty years of supporting the free software movement, they have been running a logo contest to memorialize the milestone. Today that new logo was unveiled...

AMD Radeon On Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0-devel vs. NVIDIA R565 Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance  Phoronix

AMD Radeon On Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0-devel vs. NVIDIA R565 Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance  Phoronix

This Tool Automatically Syncs Files Between My Linux and Windows PC  How-To Geek

Ahead of the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series graphics "Blackwell" and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 series "RDNA4" later in the quarter, I figured it would be worthwhile having a dedicated article looking at the latest upstream Linux graphics/gaming performance for current generation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 and AMD Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards. On the AMD side was the near-final Linux 6.13 kernel along with Mesa 25.0-devel for the latest RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL driver support while on the NVIDIA side was their current 565 driver release branch.

Vitalik Buterin's Transition to Linux and Its Impact on Ethereum Development  Blockchain.News

Vitalik Buterin on Early Adoption of Ubuntu and Linux Influence  Blockchain.News