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SoftBank Group just announced they will be acquiring Ampere Computing, the leader in ARM64 server processors that has come under increasing pressure with more of the public cloud service providers like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon/AWS turning to their own in-house ARM64 server processor designs...

IBM To Donate Three AI-Related Projects to Linux Foundation  The New Stack

Kali Linux 2025.1a released with 1 new tool, annual theme refresh  BleepingComputer

Kali Linux 2025.1 Ethical Hacking Distro Is Here with Xfce 4.20, Refreshed Theme  9to5Linux

GNOME 48 Linux desktop launches with performance boosts but System76’s Cosmic is a rising threat  BetaNews

A change proposal filed for the upcoming Fedora Linux 43 development cycles hopes to establish an expectation that RPM package builds for the distribution are reproducible...

Mecha Comet modular Linux handheld gets pre-launch upgrade, coming to Kickstarter in Q3, 2025  Liliputing

Rising Cloud Platform Adoption Propels Market Growth: A Key Driver Transforming the Linux Software Market 2025  WhaTech

GNOME 48 is officially out as the newest stable release for this open-source desktop that will be powering the likes of Fedora Workstation 42 and Ubuntu 25.04...

A few days ago there was a batch of 145 patches merged for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release to enhance the Rust "gccrs" front-end. That big set of patches merged the Polonius borrow checker and made other notable improvements. Today another 144 patches for enhancing gccrs were merged ahead of the GCC 15.1 stable release due out in the coming weeks...

Chimera Linux ghosts RISC-V because there's no time for sluggish hardware  The Register

Intel Wrapping Up Family 18 / Family 19 CPU Model Preparations Ahead Of Linux 6.15  Phoronix

Over the past year Intel has been working to prepare the Linux kernel for the end of the "Family 6" CPU era. There's been a big rework to the Intel CPU model handling within the Linux kernel given that "Family 6" has been in use since the 1990s and moving forward Intel CPUs will appear in Family 19 like Diamond Rapids along with Family 18 as part of the new CPU identification. Thus a lot of Linux kernel checks need to be reconfigured for the multi-family Intel handling. With Linux 6.15 it looks like most of that will be finally wrapped up...

Meta: FreeType flaw affecting multiple Linux distributions under active exploitation  SC Media

Must-have Native Linux games under £15 in the Steam Spring Sale 2025  GamingOnLinux

Fedora Linux 42 Beta and Fedora Asahi Remix 42 Beta released  GamingOnLinux

Linux Foundation's trust scorecards aim to battle rising open-source security threats  ZDNet

CIQ Previews a Security-Hardened Enterprise Linux  The New Stack

AMD recently allowed me some time with their AMD Accelerator Cloud (AAC) leveraging multiple Instinct MI300X accelerators. During this brief opportunity to try out their latest software advancements with the Instinct MI300X and the ROCm compute stack, one of the most striking takeaways was their documentation improvements compared to previous forays into ROCm+Instinct compute. In addition, AMD is now offering more robust container options for easier Instinct compute deployments with more software options available and being more regularly updated.

Fedora 42 Beta Is Now Available  WebProNews