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Just a friendly reminder that if you've been procrastinating in migrating past the once-great CentOS Linux 7, there is less than one week to go now until it's officially end-of-life...

CentOS Linux 7 Is End-Of-Life Next Week  Phoronix

B in BSOD Could Also be Black: Panicked Linux Users!  It's FOSS News

Qualcomm engineers on Sunday posted patches for enabling the Adreno X1-85 GPU within the MSM DRM driver. The Adreno X1-85 GPU is what's found within the Snapdragon X Elite SoC powering various new Windows ARM laptops although the Linux support continues maturing too for these platforms...

Qualcomm Aiming For Snapdragon X Elite GPU Support In Linux 6.11  Phoronix

Back during the Linux 6.9 kernel cycle support was added for the ASUS ROG Raikiri as a newer gaming controller. Now on its way for landing in Linux 6.10 is support for the ASUS ROG Raikiri Pro...

ASUS ROG Raikiri Pro Controller Support Being Added To Linux 6.10  Phoronix

It's desktop refresh season in the land of the Windowsalikes  The Register

The post How to Install RHEL 9 for RHCSA Certification first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Preparing for the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam requires hands-on experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.

The post How to Install RHEL 9 for RHCSA Certification first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux is getting Blue Screen of Death for kernel panic  Notebookcheck.net

Larry Finger made Linux wireless work and brought others along to learn  Ars Technica

The post Vivaldi 6.8 Released – A Modern Classic Web Browser for Power-Users first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Vivaldi, the popular Chromium-based web browser, has released version 6.8 with a focus on enhancing the built-in mail client and

The post Vivaldi 6.8 Released – A Modern Classic Web Browser for Power-Users first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

SP2302: A Next-Generation Secure Embedded Linux Board  Hackster.io

Linus Torvalds has just tagged Linux 6.10-rc5 as the newest weekly test release leading up to the Linux 6.10 stable release by mid-July...

Linux 6.10-rc5 Released With This Kernel Cycle Looking Good So Far  Phoronix

SDesk ISO 19 released: Say goodbye to Microsoft Windows 11 and hello to Linux  BetaNews

AMD Adds More RDNA 4 “Radeon RX 8000” GPU Patches On Linux, Enabling DCC For Faster & Efficient Performance  Wccftech

Here's Why I Think KDE Is a Better Desktop Environment Than GNOME  How-To Geek

Enhancing Linux Kernel Security Against Procedural Threats  Smartphone Magazine

Back in 2019 after various speculation-based CPU vulnerabilities began coming to light, Amazon engineers proposed process-local memory allocations for hiding KVM secrets. They were striving for an alternative mitigation for vulnerabilities like L1TF by essentially providing some memory regions for kernel allocations out of view/access from other kernel code. Amazon engineers this week laid out a new proposal after five years of ongoing Linux kernel improvements for MM-local memory allocations for dealing with current and future speculation-based cross-process attacks...