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The AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PC powered by Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" began shipping this week. It features very nice Linux support out-of-the-box with the Debian-based Ryzen AI Developer Platform operating system. For those wishing to run their own x86_64 Linux distribution, one of the only caveats in the Linux support is quite small... No mainline kernel support yet for controlled the RGB LED light strip on the driver. But that driver is coming and will hopefully be mainlined soon...

AMD Ryzen AI Halo Box RGB LED Driver Inches Closer To The Mainline Kernel  Phoronix

Proton may have saved Linux gaming, but it also ruined it  MakeUseOf

Zlib-rs 0.6.6 was just released by the Trifecta Tech Foundation. Just weeks after the prior release with a fix for Intel Raptor Lake and bringing new SIMD optimizations, zlib-rs 0.6.6 is about delivering updated Zlib API compatibility...

Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Launch Open Health Stack Software Foundation to Advance Open Source Digital Health Innovation  Linux Foundation

Linux Mint Cinnamon is finally Wayland ready  GamingOnLinux

Tuxedo Computers are putting Ubuntu Linux in the bin to use Debian for Tuxedo OS  GamingOnLinux

High-Severity Linux Vulnerabilities Patched  Open Source For You

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Azure Linux 4.0 Released: Microsoft Expands Its Enterprise Linux Platform Beyond the Cloud  Linux Journal

Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Launch Open Health Stack Software Foundation to Advance Open Source Digital Health Innovation  PR Newswire

The best Linux distro for Windows escapees will fully support Wayland  XDA

GStreamer 1.28.5 Multimedia Framework Adds Support for H.266/VVC Decoding  9to5Linux

Proton 11 Stable Fixes EA Desktop Regression and Brings 18 New Linux Games  Tech Times

Linux KVM Guest-to-Host Escape Hits Both Intel and AMD: Two CVEs Required  Tech Times

You’ve been asked to adopt AI tools with a promise they will accelerate your time to production and improve the quality of your code. Along the way, you’ve noticed a huge increase in the number of changes submitted to code and you’ve also likely felt the pain of your systems and processes not being able to keep up. The inner loop of development is moving at lightning speed, while the outer loop struggles to keep up. In many CI/CD workflows, a pipeline failure, which is often caused by a security vulnerability or a configuration error, can leave a developer with the manual, time-consuming

You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went  OSnews

'I'm not a programmer' anymore: Linus Torvalds on the only two tools he uses now  ZDNET

This Linux distro treats your PC like source code—and it almost works  How-To Geek

High-severity guest VM escape is 1 of 2 Linux vulnerabilities to surface this week  Ars Technica