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Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.21, Wine-Staging 9.21 is available as this experimental blend of Wine that carries extra patches for testing/evaluation to enhance the ability for Windows games and apps to run on Linux...

Linux Support For Apple's Latest Magic Trackpad USB-C Model  Phoronix

If this weekend's release of Hyprland 0.45 doesn't suit your fancy, Niri is also out this weekend with a new feature release. Niri is the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor for an interesting Linux desktop experience...

Proving Grounds -Nibbles (Intermediate) Linux Box -Walkthrough — A Journey to Offensive Security  Medium

Debian 12.8 is out today as the latest media refresh for the "Bookworm" release with numerous security fixes along with other general bug fixes included as part of the assortment of package updates...

Debian 12.8 Released With Many Bug Fixes & Security Updates  Phoronix

Debian Linux 12 bookworm receives eighth update with crucial security fixes  BetaNews

Debian 12.8 “Bookworm” Released with 68 Bug Fixes and 50 Security Updates  9to5Linux

Hyprland 0.45 released today as the newest version of this Wayland compositor focused on being an independent, very customizable, and dynamic tiling compositor...

SysLinuxOS, A Linux Distro for System Administrators  The New Stack

Longtime NVIDIA Linux engineer Aaron Plattner shared a status update on Friday around the current feature parity difference between the NVIDIA driver stack on X11 and under (X)Wayland...

Linux 6.13 Bringing DRM Panic Support To NVIDIA GPUs  Phoronix

Friday saw a final round of "drm-misc-next" feature updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. The DRM Panic code continues to be enhanced for improving this "Blue Screen of Death" like experience on the Linux desktop...

A set of Friday night patches provide for some exciting context switching optimizations to the Linux kernel...

New Patches Aim To Optimize Context Switching With Two Improvements  Phoronix

Running Windows Apps in Wine vs. VMs: Which Is Better?  How-To Geek

Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0 Update Pushes Additions For Intel, AMD & Arm  Phoronix

Microsoft overnight released the newest version of their Azure Linux 3.0 in-house Linux distribution that is used by a variety of internal services at the company as well as external customers...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development recap of all the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have landed over the past week...

How to Start, Stop, and Restart Services in Linux  TechRepublic