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GNOME Software To Better Support NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver  Phoronix

As a planned change for Fedora 41, Red Hat engineers are working on upstream GNOME Software better supporting the NVIDIA proprietary driver installation by allowing the installation to work gracefully with UEFI Secure Boot enabled systems...

postmarketOS 24.06 released: Linux-based OS supports dozens of phones, tablets, laptops and now just about any PC ...  Liliputing

After last week looking at how FreeBSD 14.1 has improved performance over FreeBSD 14.0, here is an expanded cross-OS comparison now looking at how the new FreeBSD 14.1 stable release compares to the recently released NetBSD 10.0, the current DragonFlyBSD 6.4 release, and then CentOS Stream 9 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for some Linux comparison data points.

FreeBSD 14.1 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.4 vs. NetBSD 10 vs. Linux Benchmarks  Phoronix

Linux in your car: Red Hat’s milestone collaboration with exida  Network World

Linux in your car: Red Hat's milestone collaboration with exida  Network World

Linux in your car: Red Hat’s milestone collaboration with exida  Network World

5 Linux commands you need to gather your system's most important information  ZDNet

openSUSE Leap 15.6 is your last chance to use this version before it switches to immutable  ZDNet

ARM's 'TIKTAG' attack affects Google Chrome and Linux systems  Android Headlines

How Automated Linux Patching Boosts Healthcare Security  Security Boulevard

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has been making sizable investments into various Linux desktop projects, the Rust-based Coreutils implementation, libmicrohttpd, PHP, a systemd bug bounty, and other prominent open-source software that could benefit from greater financial resources. Today they have announced they have opened up for a new round of applications for those open-source projects seeking funding from this German government initiative...

Intel's Open Image Denoise open-source software that is a denoising library used by Blender and other applications is out with a new feature release as it prepares for the integrated graphics of upcoming Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors as well as nearing the launch of Xe2 / Battlemage discrete graphics...

Red Hat Achieves Major Milestone for In-Vehicle Linux with Functional Safety Assessment and Certification for Linux ...  Business Wire

Canonical detail improvements the Steam Snap, work to advance gaming continues on Ubuntu  GamingOnLinux

Within the every increasingly complex world of CPU security mitigations, Intel engineers have submitted Linux kernel patches to begin taking into account the CPU core "hybrid" topology when determining relevant CPU security vulnerabilities and in turn the mitigations to apply...

Linux To Incorporate Intel CPU Hybrid Topology For Determining Vulnerabilities/Mitigations  Phoronix

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 16th, 2024  9to5Linux

Two new change proposals have been filed for enhancing the KDE offerings with this autumn's Fedora 41 release...