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Virtually and actually, LXC 6 and Incus 6 are here – both LTS versions  The Register

Fibocom to Unveil a Series of Linux-based Edge AI Solutions Mastering the Peak Performance for Industrial ...  PR Newswire

Microsoft's Azure Linux formerly known as CBL-Mariner for their in-house Linux distribution is out with a new version. Azure Linux 2.0.20240403 was released overnight and comes with a number of security updates and other fixes...

Following yesterday's news of Canonical launching Ubuntu Pro For Devices, the latest mobile/embedded news in the Ubuntu space this week is Canonical partnering with Qualcomm...

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces New Collaboration With Qualcomm  Phoronix

For several years Intel has been developing the OpenCL Intercept Layer to assist in debugging OpenCL software. It's been nearly two years since the last release of this open-source OpenCL interception layer while today brings v3.0.4 with a number of optimizations and new features...

Sent out this morning were a batch of x86 platform driver fixes by Intel engineer and platform-drivers-x86 co-maintainer Ilpo Järvinen. Besides a couple of fixes, worth mentioning is the Intel HID driver seeing support added for upcoming Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake platforms...

Intel HID Driver Ready For Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake Laptops With Linux 6.9  Phoronix

Researchers Uncover First Native Spectre v2 Exploit Against Linux Kernel  The Hacker News

Linux might be getting its act together on the desktop  Fudzilla

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ImageMagick is a free and open source, feature-rich, text-based, and cross-platform image manipulation tool used to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It runs

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UPower as the abstraction layer for enumerating power devices on Linux systems and allowing various battery / power supply features is out with a new feature update...

UPower 1.90.4 Fixes Excessive Disk Writes & High CPU Usage  Phoronix

Dynebolic is a portable Linux distribution that can be used without installation  ZDNet

Linux vs Windows AES performance to be intriguing as Google boosts AMD and Intel  Neowin

Fortinet Discloses Vulnerabilities In FortiOS, FortiProxy, FortiClient Linux And Mac  CRN

Disclosed back in March 2022 was Branch History Injection (BHI) as a new Spectre vulnerability affecting Intel and Arm CPUs. Then in July of 2022 were patches for Intel working on hardware-based prevention for Spectre-BHI attacks. Now two years later the Linux kernel is seeing mitigations added for the native Branch History Injection vulnerability...

Linux Kernel Patched For Branch History Injection "BHI" Intel CPU Vulnerability  Phoronix

GNOME 46: Does It Make the Switch to Linux Worth It?  How-To Geek

Since SiFive ceased production of the HiFive Unleashed developer board we've been clamoring for a new and more powerful RISC-V developer board... Today SiFive announced the HiFive Premier P550 as a new developer system offering that will be available this summer...