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While Fwupd developers are working toward the Fwupd 2.0 release, out this morning is Fwupd 1.9.20 as the newest point release for this open-source solution for firmware updating on Linux that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...

Fwupd 1.9.20 Released With Updated FPC Fingerprint Reader Support  Phoronix

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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, codename Noble Numbat, was released on April 25, 2024, and is now available for download from the official Ubuntu website and its

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Linux VPS for Beginners: 3 Mistakes to Avoid and How to Get Started Right  Tribune Online

Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto  U.Today

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There are aspects of Linux that I find frustrating, even though I don’t talk about them often. Here are five points that I encounter almost

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 19th, 2024  9to5Linux

TerraMaster D8 Hybrid lets you easily add tons of storage to Windows, macOS, and Linux computers  BetaNews

Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet today sent out his feature pull request of all the new file-system code that is ready in time for the Linux 6.10 merge window...

Bcachefs Brings Safety Improvements To Linux 6.10, Preps For Online Fsck  Phoronix

How to Setup a Multi-GPU Linux Machine for Deep Learning in 2024  Towards Data Science

Latest Manjaro Linux 24.0 "Wynsdey" Available For Download  Fossbytes

North Korea-linked Kimsuky used a new Linux backdoor in recent attacks  Security Affairs

Released over a year ago was Golang 1.20 with support for Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) and has since been improved with Go 1.21 for 2~7% faster Go binaries thanks to this optimization approach also found with other compilers. The engineers at Cloudflare have put out a blog post this week praising Go's PGO support and the CPU savings they are seeing as a result...

While EROFS is seeing Zstd support and Bcachefs is seeing performance optimizations with the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel, over on the mature EXT4 file-system side the changes are mostly small. There are some minor changes, more folio conversion work, and also adding support for the FS_IOC_GETFSSYSFSPATH ioctl that has been seeing some standardization and adoption by the common Linux file-systems...

EXT4 In Linux 6.10 Adds FS_IOC_GETFSSYSFSPATH Support  Phoronix

Mac gaming could soon be a contender against Windows and Linux  Sportskeeda

A Linux patch has been posted for delivering a quirk so that the Bigscreen Beyond VR Headset can properly behave under Linux and in turn also jives with the likes of SteamVR...

Linux Patch Posted For The Bigscreen Beyond VR Headset  Phoronix

Alongside all of the other pull requests by Ingo Molnar submitted at the start of the week during the opening of the Linux 6.10 merge window were the scheduler updates. As usual, the kernel scheduler work continues to see various tweaks and refinements to enhance its behavior...