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AMD P-State Preferred Core Support For Linux Tried A 13th Time  Phoronix

Linux Mint 21.3 is now available for the latest version of this easy-to-use, beginner-friendly desktop Linux distribution that is currently built atop an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS package base...

Linux Mint 21.3 Released With Full SecureBoot Support, Cinnamon 6.0 Desktop  Phoronix

The read-only EROFS open-source file-system continues to prove quite popular for Android mobile devices as well as containerized environments. With the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel EROFS adds initial support for sub-page compressed data support...

EROFS Adds Sub-Page Compressed Data Support To Help Out Android & ARM64 Servers  Phoronix

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Get 12 Years of Updates  It's FOSS News

Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.42 released this week as the high performance Java Virtual Machine spun out from the IBM J9 JVM...

Intel has prepared additional Trust Domain Extensions enablement code for the ongoing Linux 6.8 kernel merge window...

Linux 6.8 Upstreams More Intel TDX Bits For Protecting KVM Guests  Phoronix

Unleashing the Power of Termux: A Comprehensive Guide to Mobile Terminal Emulation  Medium

In addition to the Bcachefs changes for Linux 6.8, the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) changes have also been separately submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.8 merge window...

F2FS Improves Zoned Block Device Support With Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities in USB and Netlink Subsystems Prompt Security Notice  BNN Breaking

NoaBot: Another Mirai Botnet Strikes at Linux Devices  The New Stack

This week prior to the Mesa 24.0 feature freeze / code branching, a notable merge request landed that had been worked on the past few months by one of Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver developers...

Valve Lands A Last Minute AMD ACO Improvement For Mesa 24.0  Phoronix

The System76 crew has put out a new blog post outlining the work ahead toward their upcoming alpha release of their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment and in turn the Pop!_OS 24.04 release expected to happen "over the summer"...

While on Fedora and other Linux distributions it can be as easy as running "pip3 install torch" or similar for deploying the PyTorch machine learning framework, Fedora 40 is looking at packaging PyTorch on its own for enhancing the Fedora Linux user experience...

How to Install Numix Theme and Icons in Ubuntu  Technology News, Tutorials and Apps Review

All of the ARM SoC and platform driver changes have been submitted for the Linux 6.8 kernel that include bringing up the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs, enabling various low-cost gaming handheld console devices, finally upstreaming Google Tensor G1 support, and other hardware additions...