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Emulating the Persistent and Stealthy Ebury Linux Malware  Security Boulevard

As one of the early feature proposals for Fedora 42, there is a proposal being considered to make for a nice out-of-the-box experience running x86/x86_64 game/application binaries atop Fedora 42 AArch64 hosts...

Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS Released with Linux Kernel 6.8  OMG! Ubuntu!

Steam Deck Won’t Survive 2025 Without A Significant Upgrade  Forbes

How to Take Screenshots in Ubuntu: Every Method You Need to Know  How-To Geek

Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) Is Now Available Powered by Linux Kernel 6.8  9to5Linux

AMD today committed their GC 11.5.2 firmware to the upstream linux-firmware.git for the necessary firmware binary blobs needed for hardware initialization by their open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver with this newer RDNA3.5 variant...

AMD Publishes GC 11.5.2 Firmware For Upcoming RDNA3.5 Hardware  Phoronix

With Fedora 41 working its way to release toward the end of October, some early feature/change proposals for Fedora 42 are being filed for what will be the Fedora Linux release out next spring...

Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 is out today for providing the set of Wayland protocol XML files for currently non-standard protocols that are relied upon by the Plasma desktop with KWin compositor...

Juno Tab 3 is a $699 Linux tablet with an Intel Alder Lake-N CPU  TechSpot

AMD XDNA Linux Driver v3 Published For Ryzen AI Upstreaming  Phoronix

AMD engineers continue work toward upstreaming their XDNA kernel driver for Linux in enabling the Ryzen AI NPU on open-source. The "v3" patches were posted on Wednesday but given the timing it looks like it will be missing out still on merging for the upcoming Linux 6.12 LTS cycle...

Linux Support Updates for AWS CLI v2  AWS Blog

Linux desktop environment Cinnamon 6.4 aims to fix its outdated look with a fresh default theme  BetaNews

KDE Plasma 6.2 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Ojaswin Mujoo with IBM has posted an initial set of "request for comments" patches implementing extsize hints for EXT4, similar to the hints being worked on for the XFS file-system. This is important work in ultimately striving toward handling non-torn / atomic writes within the EXT4 file-system...

Linux Mint Working on New Default Cinnamon Theme, APT Replacements  OMG! Ubuntu!

Why eBPF is critical and how it's getting better  Network World

With the upcoming PostgreSQL 17 database server release there is some initial AVX-512 optimizations that are looking quite nice according to Intel's findings...