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The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn  ZDNet

KERING EYEWEAR IT Linux Specialist  Kering

Venturing beyond the default OS on Raspberry Pi 5  The Register

The performance is likely to be atrocious, but the Mesa Lavapipe driver implementing the Vulkan API for CPU-based execution has rolled out support for Vulkan ray-tracing...

Plasma 6 lands in Arch Linux, KDE neon teething issues and Plasma 6.1 heating up  GamingOnLinux

The Etnaviv DRM kernel driver providing reverse-engineered support for Vivante graphics and NPU IP has sent out their latest feature changes to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 merge window...

openSUSE Leap 15.6 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing with GNOME 45  9to5Linux

Steven Rostedt this week posted some interesting albeit experimental patches for the Linux kernel to support persistent traces that work across a reboot or crash...

Experimental Linux Patches Allow Kernel Tracing To Work Past Reboots/Crashes  Phoronix

New Linux Malware Attacking Apache, Docker, Redis & Confluence Servers  GBHackers

New Linux Malware Attacking Apache, Docker, Redis & Confluence Servers  GBHackers

The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn  ZDNet

Linux market share passes 4% for first time  HardForum

Linux Malware targets misconfigured misconfigured Apache Hadoop, Confluence, Docker, and Redis servers  Security Affairs

Fedora Workstation has long defaulted to using GNOME's Wayland session by default, but it has continued to install the GNOME X.Org session for fallback purposes or those opting to use it instead. But for the Fedora Workstation 41 release later in the year, there is a newly-approved plan to no longer have that GNOME X.Org session installed by default...

FOSS Weekly #24.10: Second Brain Apps, Kernel Programming, New Linux Apps and More  It's FOSS

The merge request enabling basic OpenGL support for the Wine Wayland driver has been merged to Wine Git this evening as another important step forward for native Wayland support for enjoying Windows games/apps on Linux...

Linux Malware Campaign Targets Misconfigured Cloud Servers  OODA Loop

Cloud-y Linux Malware Rains on Apache, Docker, Redis & Confluence  Dark Reading

Following the news from earlier around George Hotz' Tiny Corp raising new AMD GPU issues and calling for the MES firmware to be open-sourced followed by a positive message from AMD CEO Lisa Su, there's a new update on the matter following a meeting today between Tiny Corp and AMD...