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FOSS Weekly #24.19: Local AI on Linux, systemd's sudo Replacement  It's FOSS

Things I Recommend Doing After Installing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 'Noble Numbat'  It's FOSS

The first beta of Python 3.13 is now available for testing ahead of its official release later this year...

Pop!_OS' COSMIC Desktop Finishing Up Work On App Store  Phoronix

The developers at System76 working on their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment catering to their in-house, Ubuntu-derived Pop!_OS Linux distribution have provided their latest monthly status update on the desktop effort...

Following the release of ROCm 6.1 just under one month ago, ROCm 6.1.1 was published today as the newest point release to deliver various bug fixes and other minor improvements to this open-source GPU compute stack...

Ongoing Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom continues carrying out a splendid job with the on-time releases of new bi-weekly Mesa point releases and the weekly release candidates heading toward the next feature release of these open-source predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...

Back in January the Zed editor was open-sourced for this new code editor from the creators of the Atom editor and Tree-sitter syntax parsing framework. This high performance code editor has been initially focused on macOS support while the Linux support has begun coming together...

Zed Code Editor Making Progress On Linux Support  Phoronix

Fedora Asahi Remix brings Fedora Linux 40 and Plasma 6 to Macs with Apple Silicon  Liliputing

Securing Virtual Machines in QEMU on Linux  Security Boulevard

Since last year Intel's open-source software engineers have been working on a PCIe bandwidth controller driver for the Linux kernel to avoid thermal issues by being able to automatically reduce the PCIe link speed when needed. This driver still isn't over the finish line but today brought the fifth iteration of these patches...

Intel Revises PCIe Cooling Driver To Reduce Link Speed When Running Too Hot  Phoronix

New York's Downtown It-Girl Linux Recaps Met Gala 2024  Papermag

Recently I've been testing out the Scaleway's Elastic Metal RV1 (EM-RV1) RISC-V cloud servers. Initially they were using Ubuntu 23.10 for providing an up-to-date Ubuntu Linux RISC-V experience while quickly upgraded to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. For those curious how Ubuntu 24.04 is performing on RISC-V hardware, here are some comparison benchmarks.

Building off the recent release of Fedora 40, Fedora Asahi Remix 40 is now available for this downstream of Fedora Linux that's optimized to run on Apple Silicon ARM systems...

Fedora Asahi Remix 40 Now Available For Apple Silicon Devices, KDE Plasma 6 By Default  Phoronix

SHIFTphone 8 is the upcoming modular and easy-to-repair smartphone from Germany's SHIFT GmbH. This is the first major SHIFTphone update in four years and there are pending patches providing mainline Linux kernel support for this forthcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon powered modular/upgradeable smartphone...

SHIFTphone 8 Preparing Mainline Linux Support Ahead Of Launch  Phoronix

Linux Software Market to Reach $9,714.11 Million, Globally,  GlobeNewswire