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Open-source developer Enrico Weigelt has in recent months taken to near single-handedly maintain and further enhance the aging X.Org Server codebase. The latest area that Weigelt has been working to improve is around the X.Org Server's Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support...

Forget Windows 11: Nobara Linux is the OS for everyone  ZDNet

Forget Windows 11: Nobara Linux is the OS for everyone  ZDNet

Andrew Morton on Sunday sent in his "MM" pull requests for Linux 6.11 of the areas of the kernel he manages...

It's not just Windows PCs that have gone belly up, as CrowdStrike's Falcon software has been b0rking Linux-powered computers, too  PC Gamer

It's not just Windows PCs that have gone belly up, as CrowdStrike's Falcon software has been b0rking Linux-powered computers, too  PC Gamer

VMware ESXi Subjected to Attacks with Novel Play Ransomware for Linux  Channel E2E

The stable Linux Mint 22 ISOs have passed final checks and are ready to download  Neowin

The final Linux Mint 22 ISOs are undergoing final checks before the release  Neowin

Linux Creator Advocates Waiting for 10-Years Before Embracing AI  AIM

VMware ESXi subjected to attacks with novel Play ransomware for Linux  SC Media

VMware ESXi subjected to attacks with novel Play ransomware for Linux  SC Media

GNU C Library "glibc" 2.40 is now available with more C23 features being enabled as well as some new performance tunables on x86_64 and AArch64 along with other improvements to this widely used libc implementation...

Developing a Video Game with Unreal Engine 5 on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Developing a Video Game with Unreal Engine 5 on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Yann Collet released LZ4 v1.10 today as a major update to this extremely fast compression algorithm. Most significant with LZ4 1.10 is adding multi-threaded compression support for much faster performance with today's modern multi-core processors...

In light of the CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage/disaster that has been wreaking havoc on corporate Windows systems around the world since Friday, systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering pointed out how such a situation on Linux systems could be averted by leveraging systemd's Automatic Boot Assessment functionality...

systemd Talks Up Automatic Boot Assessment In Light Of The Crowdstrike-Microsoft Outage  Phoronix

OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 Release Opts For X11 By Default  It's FOSS News

Way back at the start of 2023, French fabless semiconductor company Kalray posted Linux kernel patches for a "KVX" Linux kernel port to get Linux up and running on their MPPA3-80 "Coolidge" DPU SoC with the KV3-1 CPU architecture. A year and a half later this work still is outside the Linux kernel but finally a third iteration of the KVX Linux kernel port has been posted for review...