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Data collection around users tends to be a very touchy subject in the Linux/open-source world even when opt-in and Fedora Workstation 42 has just seen a proposal raised to do just that. If approved the Fedora Workstation 42 release would roll-out an opt-in metrics system of anonymous user information from system settings to hardware information and desktop usage patterns...

Fedora Workstation 42 Looking At Adding Opt-In User Metrics Collection  Phoronix

'RegreSSHion' Bug Threatens Takeover of Millions of Linux Systems  Dark Reading

Radeon Developer Tool Suite Migrates To Qt6  Phoronix

AMD's Radeon Developer Tool Suite from their GPUOpen group has now migrated to the Qt6 graphical toolkit...

Linux Mint 22 Beta Is Now Available  How-To Geek

Linux Mint 22 Beta is Now Available to Download  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Mint has kicked off the start of July by releasing the beta of Linux Mint 22 "Wilma" as the next iteration of their desktop distribution built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and with plans to support it until 2029...

Linux Mint 22 Enters Beta, Built Atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  Phoronix

Linux Mint 22 Beta Officially Released  WebProNews

Want to save your old computer? Try these 5 Linux distributions  ZDNet

Linux Mint 22 'Wilma' Beta rolls out: Sleek, secure, and ready for the future  BetaNews

Linux Mint 22 Beta Released with Cinnamon 6.2, Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  9to5Linux

In part for preparing for upcoming Linux testing of AMD Ryzen AI 300 series laptops, I've been re-benchmarking various Intel/AMD laptops around the lab at Phoronix. In today's article is a fresh look at how the existing AMD Zen 4 laptop performance in the form of the popular Framework 13 and Framework 16 laptops is competing with the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H "Meteor Lake" SoC while using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and upgrading to the latest Linux 6.10 development kernel as well as the newest Mesa open-source graphics driver support.

AMD Zen 4 vs. Intel Core Ultra 7 "Meteor Lake" In 400+ Benchmarks On Linux 6.10  Phoronix

Linux Mint 22 Beta is Now Available to Download  OMG! Ubuntu!

Critical OpenSSH vulnerability threatens millions of Linux systems  Developer News

Qualcomm has begun landing performance optimizations into the GNU C Library "glibc" for benefiting their new Oryon-1 CPU cores as found in the Snapdragon X Elite/Plus SoCs...

GNOME's Mutter 46.2-1ubuntu0.24.04.1 package was uploaded on Friday for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users. This Mutter compositor update not only brings Mutter 46.2 changes to this current Ubuntu release but also pulls in all of the 46.1 upstream changes too...

GNOME Mutter 46.2 Rolls Out To Ubuntu 24.04 Users, Experimental VRR Remains Rough  Phoronix