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New Linux Patches Enable The Snapdragon X1 Elite Powered Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6  Phoronix

With Linux 6.11 over on the Arm-focused SoC side there were three new SoCs and 59 new machines/boards added for Arm and RISC-V. The MIPS pull request was submitted overnight for this next kernel version and there is just two new SoCs being introduced...

Linux 6.11 MIPS Upstreams Realtek RTL9302C & Mobileye EyeQ6H Chips  Phoronix

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with a summer time update that highlights the interesting improvements made to the KDE desktop and related apps over the past two weeks...

Several Linux Kernel Azure Vulnerabilities Fixed in Ubuntu  Security Boulevard

Several Linux Kernel Azure Vulnerabilities Fixed in Ubuntu  Security Boulevard

How NVIDIA's open-source GPU drivers will benefit the Linux community  NewsBytes

10 Best Linux Firewalls In 2024  CybersecurityNews

10 Best Linux Firewalls In 2024  CybersecurityNews

Time For Change: 5 Alternative OS to Escape Windows  Gulte

4 reasons why it doesn't matter it's still not the year of Linux on desktop  XDA Developers

4 reasons why it doesn't matter it's still not the year of Linux on desktop  XDA Developers

CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed  Neowin

CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed  Neowin

Crypto community reacts to Windows-CrowdStrike outage as blockchains unaffected  Cointelegraph

Eric Engestrom is once again serving as the Mesa release manager and today took to forking the Mesa 24.2 codebase followed by issuing the first release candidate...

Users of Bay Area-based Mac, Linux fire off memes during Microsoft outage  SFGATE

Users of Bay Area-based Mac, Linux fire off memes during Microsoft outage  SFGATE

AMD XDNA Ryzen AI Linux Kernel Driver Posted For Review  Phoronix

Back in January AMD quietly posted an XDNA Linux kernel driver for enabling the Ryzen AI NPUs. The driver has been maintained within that GitHub repository since but without any clear effort for getting this accelerator driver reviewed and merged into the upstream Linux kernel. Today that first step is finally being taken with the Ryzen AI XDNA Linux kernel driver patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list and dri-devel to begin facilitating the upstream review process for getting this AI accelerator driver in the mainline kernel...