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Spiral Linux offers a handy tool that can keep you from spiraling if you lose a file  ZDNet

AlmaLinux OS 9.4 “Seafoam Ocelot” Officially Released, Based on RHEL 9.4  9to5Linux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Selected as Operating System for LLNL's El Capitan  HPCwire

OS Management Hub simplifies management of enterprise systems across distributed environments  Oracle

Red Hat Powers the Future of Supercomputing with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  Business Wire

How to add AppImages to your Linux desktop menu - this tool makes it a snap  ZDNet

PowerPC 40x Processor Support To Be Dropped From The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

In addition to Linux 6.10 expected to drop support for very old DEC Alpha processors (EV5 and earlier), it looks like the PowerPC 40x (early PowerPC 400 series) processor and platform support will be retired too...

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has signed off on the plans for Fedora 41 to build its Python using the "-O3" compiler optimization level rather than the "-O2" default for Fedora packages in the name of better performance...

Extending & Embedding Python Using C - A Module Using Linux  iProgrammer

The Linux 6.10 kernel is poised to remove support for old DEC Alpha EV5 platforms and earlier...

Linux 6.10 To Drop Support For Very Old DEC Alpha Hardware  Phoronix

The modular/upgradeable Framework Laptops employ an open-source embedded controller (EC) firmware derived from Google's Chrome OS EC project. This is great for open-source fans and allows re-using much of the same Chrome OS EC software support that already exists. But there is also vendor-specific commands supported by the Framework Laptop EC and thus a dedicated Linux kernel driver is now being worked on for handling those vendor/device-specific features...

Framework Laptop EC Driver Being Prepared For Linux  Phoronix

The first beta of FreeBSD 14.1 is now available for testing in kicking off what will be the first point release building off last November's FreeBSD 14.0 release...

There's a new release of the open-source nvidia-vaapi-driver available, the third-party VA-API implementation that in turn targets NVIDIA's NVDEC interface to allow software like Mozilla Firefox that only targets VA-API for video acceleration to work on NVIDIA GPUs...

Dillo 3.1 has been released to succeed the Dillo 3.0.5 release all the way back from 2015... Dillo is a lightweight web browser making use of the FLTK toolkit and is cross-platform, maintains few dependencies, and implements its own rendering engine...

Linux fan develops a fricking amazing tool to remove all ads from Windows 11  BetaNews

Oracle Linux 9 Update 4 is generally available  Oracle

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Neofetch, the popular command-line tool for displaying system information in a visually appealing ASCII format, is no longer being actively developed. The project’s main developer

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