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Linus Torvalds Is Doing More ARM64 Linux Testing Now That He Has A More Powerful System  Phoronix

The first release candidate of systemd 256 came just under one month ago with new features like run0 as the new sudo alternative, a new "systemd-vpick" binary, importctl as another new tool, Zboot kernel support with systemd ukify, systemd-homed improvements, and much more. Systemd 256-rc2 is out this evening with a few more features and other fixes collected over the past several weeks...

Qualcomm Working On Steady Support For Linux With Snapdragon X Elite SKUs  Wccftech

The Framework Laptops are some great systems with their upgradeable/modular design, friendly Linux support, both Intel and AMD options, the latest models making use of an open-source embedded controller, and nice build quality. The Framework Laptops have proven very popular with Linux/open-source enthusiasts but one of the recurring critiques has been the lack of Coreboot firmware support for these laptops as an alternative (or outright replacement) to the proprietary BIOS/firmware. As a promising avenue for the future, there is experimental work being done on getting Coreboot up and running with the Framework 13 laptop powered by the AMD Ryzen 7040 series...

Framework 13 AMD Laptop Seeing Experimental Coreboot Port  Phoronix

Endless OS 6 Is Here Based on Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm”  9to5Linux

Can You Use Linux Without the Terminal?  How-To Geek

Intel just published a new set of CPU microcode files for updating Alder lake and newer as well as Xeon Scalable 4th Gen and 5th Gen in order to address three security issues plus take care of various functional issues...

Qualcomm is bringing support for Snapdragon X chips to the mainline Linux kernel  Liliputing

Ebury botnet malware infected 400,000 Linux servers since 2009  BleepingComputer

Scaleway by way of their Scaleway Labs group recently launched the Elastic Metal RV1 (EM-RV1) as the world's first RISC-V servers available in the cloud. These RISC-V cloud servers are built around the T-Head 1520 SoC and are an interesting way to explore the RISC-V architecture and/or otherwise make use of RISC-V for CI/CD deployments or other testing purposes. In this article are some benchmarks showing the RISC-V EM-RV1 performance against Intel and AMD x86_64 Linux.

Qualcomm goes where Apple won't, readies official Linux support for Snapdragon X Elite  Tom's Hardware

Linux Foundation Announces the Launch of the High-Performance Software Foundation  HPCwire

Manjaro 24.0 Wynsdey packs a punch for Microsoft Windows 11 users switching to Linux  BetaNews

MEDIA ADVISORY: Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation Releases Rocky Linux v9.4  PR Web

What is the best solution for running the LINE App on Linux Desktop?  ASEAN NOW

Back in late 2023 were Rust abstractions for the Linux kernel's Virtual File-System (VFS) code. Those patches by Microsoft engineer Wedson Almeida Filho have now seen a second iteration posted... In addition to various improvements to the Rust VFS bindings, the new patches bring a work-in-progress EXT2 Rust file-system driver...

Microsoft Engineer Ports EXT2 File-System Driver To Rust  Phoronix

Debian's APT packaging tool is working its way toward the big APT 3.0 release. The APT 2.9 development series is underway and debuting last month was APT's new (CLI) user interface with a columnar display, colored text, and other improvements for this widely-used tool on Debian-based environments. APT 2.9.3 is out today as the newest development release and new to this version is a new package solver...

The Human Interface Devices (HID) subsystem updates have been submitted for the newly-opened Linux 6.10 kernel merge window. Among the HID driver updates coming with Linux 6.10 are supporting the Steam Deck IMU motion sensors as well as HID coverage for the ASUS ROG Ally and ASUS ROG Z13 devices...