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The Khronos Group on Monday released OpenXR 1.1 as the latest version of this industry standard for open, cross-platform development for virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) devices...

What If The Cyber Attack On Linux Were Successful?  Medium

Linux Foundation Promotes Open Source RAG with OPEA Launch  Datanami

Introducing UEK-next, Oracle's continuous integration Linux kernel release  Oracle

Linux Fu: Stupid Systemd Tricks  Hackaday

Qualcomm adds on-device AI/Wi-Fi products, acquires Foundries.io  Embedded

APT is Getting a Colourful New UI (it’s a BIG Improvement)  OMG! Ubuntu!

The Bcachefs fixes continue to come in on the heavier side for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel...

What's New in Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat"  How-To Geek

AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta is out today for this popular community-oriented Linux distribution derived from upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Besides pulling in the RHEL 9.4 Beta changes, AlmaLinux 9.4 also restores hardware support for some devices that was deprecated by upstream RHEL...

AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Restores Support For Some Hardware Deprecated By RHEL  Phoronix

10 Best Linux Server Security Practices for Sysadmin in 2024  Security Boulevard

DinodasRAT Malware: A Multi-Platform Backdoor Targeting Linux  Security Boulevard

openSUSE's Leap Micro OS that caters to containerized and virtualized workloads by providing a lightweight and reliable foundation is embarking on its next major release. The openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 operating system is now available in alpha form...

openSUSE Leap Micro 6 Reaches Alpha  Phoronix

Within yesterday's Linux 6.9-rc4 release is an interesting little nugget by Linus Torvalds to battle Kconfig parsers that can't correctly handle tabs but rather just assume spaces for whitespace for this kernel configuration format...

Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them  Phoronix

Continuing a trend worked on in recent Fedora Linux releases and more broadly in the open-source ecosystem at large for securing the software supply chain and ensuring unaltered binaries, Fedora 41 is aiming to ensure more reproducible package builds...

Ahead of tomorrow's official release announcement, the Firefox 125.0 release binaries have been uploaded to the Mozilla mirror this morning. Firefox 125.0 brings a number of new features and developer additions -- more so than we've seen recently from the monthly Firefox releases...

Who’s logging into your Linux servers?  Network World