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antiX 23.2 launches with Debian 12 base and no systemd for lightweight Linux experience  BetaNews

Gentoo Linux will be working on better support for ARM64/AArch64 and 32-bit ARM now that they have received an Ampere Altra Max server to help expedite their ARM build times for binary packages and installation stage builds...

Gentoo Linux To See Improved ARM64 Support Thanks To An Ampere Altra Max Server  Phoronix

How ‘perfctl’ malware infected Linux servers undetected for years  CSO Online

Linux Kernel Exploits: Common Threats and How To Prevent Them  ITPro Today

Best Linux distro for education of 2024  TechRadar

Manjaro 24.1 makes for a beautiful, highly-functional, and easy-to-use Linux desktop  ZDNet

RSS Feed in the Linux/Mac Terminal: Read the Latest With This CLI Tool  How-To Geek

Git grumpy: Torvalds complains of passive voice in merge commit messages  Neowin

While not expected to reach general availability (GA) state until October of 2025, available today in pre-alpha form is the openSUSE Leap 16.0 distribution...

RPM 4.20 is out today as the newest feature release to this package manager system that's been in development the past year and featuring a variety of improvements for the likes of RHEL and Fedora based distributions...

Linux systems targeted with stealthy “Perfctl” cryptomining malware  Help Net Security

For those on Debian experimental or planning on upgrading to Ubuntu 24.10 that is releasing this week, the Ptyxis terminal emulator is now available in the package archive if wanting to try out this speedy terminal option...

Yesterday when announcing the Linux 6.12-rc2 kernel, Linus Torvalds asked that the kernel maintainers do a better job moving forward with their commit messages...

The NVGRACE-GPU VFIO driver was introduced for handling Virtual Function I/O support with the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip so that the GPU device could be assigned to guests using KVM/QEMU and similar for virtualization. The NVGRACE-GPU driver is now being extended for supporting the forthcoming NVIDIA Grace Blackwell "GB" designs...

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 6th, 2024  9to5Linux

OpenRazer v3.9 released with many new Razer devices supported on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Following work last month for extending the Dell WMI sysman Linux driver to handle Alienware systems for managing the system BIOS within the confines of Linux, another separate improvement is on the way for enhancing Alienware hardware support under Linux. This newest effort is introducing the "dell-wmi-awcc" driver for handling functionality found under Windows with the Alienware Command Center...

Xfce 4.20 creeps toward Wayland support while Mint 22.1 polishes desktop routine  The Register

Xfce 4.20 and Mint 22.1 expected in December  The Register