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AlmaLinux to further distinguish itself from other RHEL-based Linux distributions has announced a Certification Special Interest Group (SIG) and out of that is coming a AlmaLinux Hardware Certification Program...

AlmaLinux Announces Certification SIG, Hardware Certification Program  Phoronix

We know 'Linux is a cancer' but could CentOS chaos spell opportunity for Microsoft?  The Register

While OpenJDK Java is available via the Ubuntu package archive and the go-to JVM on Ubuntu Linux, Canonical is working to package up Oracle's GraalVM as another option for enhancing the Java stack on Ubuntu...

Why I Keep Coming Back to Fedora Workstation  How-To Geek

Stratus Releases Linux-based Virtualization for ftServer Platforms  StreetInsider.com

Stratus Releases Linux-based Virtualization for ftServer Platforms  Marketscreener.com

Stratus Releases Linux-based Virtualization for ftServer Platforms  Business Wire

Stratus Releases Linux-based Virtualization for ftServer Platforms  Yahoo Finance

Stratus Releases Linux-based Virtualization for ftServer Platforms  StockTitan

Intel today released a new version of QATlib, the QuickAssist Technology library for enjoying hardware-accelerated offloading of security, authentication, and compression needs. Recent Intel Xeon CPUs with built-in QAT accelerators stand to benefit a lot from the new QATlib 24.09 release...

Intel engineers have been working on enabling NPEM for Linux: Native PCIe Enclosure Management as a means of standardized storage LED indicators...

Sedexp Malware: The Stealthy Linux Threat Evading Detection  Security Boulevard

Following Canonical's decision to enable frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and then they ended up adding a number of performance tools to ship by default with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, for Ubuntu 24.10 a late change is adding another tool to be installed by default on the Ubuntu desktop: Sysprof...

Ubuntu 24.10 Desktop To Ship With Sysprof Profiler Pre-Installed  Phoronix

Thanks to the work of Valve Linux graphics driver developer Samuel Pitoiset, the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver is now the first within Mesa supporting the new Vulkan pipeline binary extension...

KDE Plasma 6.1.5 Released with More Bug Fixes for Plasma 6.1 Users  9to5Linux

The Intel Arrow Lake Linux graphics driver support appears largely wrapped up following a patch for properly handling the necessary GSC firmware requirements and building off all the existing Meteor Lake Arc Graphics driver code paths. There are a number of Arrow Lake PCI device IDs already present for the graphics while a new one is being added now to the kernel drivers...

Canonical Shipping Updated Intel TDX Software For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  Phoronix

Last year Canonical delivered an Intel TDX "tech preview" for Ubuntu 23.10 to experiment with using Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) found on the latest Xeon server processors. With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS they began shipping a formal TDX software stack and now have rolled out an update to that software stack as a stable release update...