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Apple Officially Supports Linux for a Completely Seamless Experience  36 Kr

Last year when releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, Red Hat announced a RHEL 10.0 developer preview for RISC-V. Since then that RISC-V developer preview hadn't been updated but now Red Hat has published a new developer preview snapshot based on RHEL 10.2...

Red Hat Releases Second Developer Preview Of RHEL 10 For RISC-V  Phoronix

Impressive looking dark point and click adventure Tormentum II gets a demo  GamingOnLinux

On Sunday it's anticipated that Linus Torvalds will released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel. This is a really terrific mid-year update to the Linux kernel! Here's what makes me excited about Linux 7.1...

Among the many new features planned for Ubuntu 26.10 is switching the default D-Bus implementation over to using the high performance Dbus-Broker drop-in replacement...

Ubuntu 26.10 Reaffirms Plans For Switching To Dbus-Broker  Phoronix

Juno Tab 4 Linux tablets launch in 10.5'' and 13'' versions powered by Intel processors  Notebookcheck

Someone built an open-source, modular x86 gaming handheld that dual-boots Linux and Windows  XDA

Systemd-Free Peppermint OS Devuan Is Now Based on Devuan 6 Excalibur  9to5Linux

Ever since AMD announced openSIL in early 2023 for open-source CPU silicon initialization to eventually replace AGESA and enhance their Coreboot support, I have been eager to try it out. The openSIL code drops to date though have just focused on select reference platforms with only aiming for production status in the Zen 6 timeframe. But thanks to 3mdeb porting openSIL and Coreboot to a Gigabyte server motherboard, it's now possible to try out openSIL+Coreboot right now on Zen 5 hardware.

400+ Arch Linux AUR Packages Compromised in a Supply Chain Attack Deploying Infostealers  CyberSecurityNews

One of the exciting additions to the Linux 7.1 kernel is the introduction of the new NTFS file-system kernel driver. While in good shape already and proving advantageous over other NTFS open-source driver options, one of the initial limitations on it is around Windows native symbolic link handling but that is now in the process of being resolved...

Juno Tab 4 Linux tablets launches in 10.5'' and 13'' versions powered by Intel processors  Notebookcheck

The Arch Linux AUR had over 400 packages compromised with malware  GamingOnLinux

Cheat Engine now has a Linux version released  GamingOnLinux

Klei Entertainment classic Eets is now free and updated for modern PCs with a Linux version  GamingOnLinux

Linux cryptography subsystem expert Eric Biggers Eric Biggers of Google worked on some pretty nice Intel/AMD x86_64 optimizations over the years. Especially around AVX-512 optimizations within the Linux kernel's crypto code has been one of his many nice improvements to the kernel in recent times. Today he's out with another enticing AVX-512 optimization and this time it's for the software RAID code...

The Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these user-supplied packages being compromised...

Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware  Phoronix