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Ubuntu 24.04 Supports Easy Installation Of OpenZFS Root File-System With Encryption  Phoronix

XZ Utils might not have been the only sabotage target, open-source foundations warn  ZDNet

Calamares 3.3.6 Linux Installer Improves Support for Plymouth Splash Screens  9to5Linux

Last month the Linux Foundation along with industry stakeholders such as AWS, Google Cloud, Snap, Oracle, and others formed Valkey as an open-source Redis fork following Redis moving to Redis Source Available License v2 and SSPL v1 licensing. Today they've released Valkey 7.2.5 as the first stable release for this open-source Redis fork...

It's been three weeks since the Plasma 6.0.3 point release while today KDE has shipped Plasma 6.0.4 as its April bug-fix release...

How to Enable Windows Subsystem for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux Fu: Stupid Systemd Tricks  Hackaday

Linux Foundation Launches Margo to Deliver Long-Awaited Edge Interoperability  goskagit.com

Linux Foundation Energy Announces New Open Source Initiatives for Substation Digitalization, Energy AI and Data ...  PR Newswire

Following the launch of the Ryzen 8000G series processors earlier this year as well as the Ryzen 8840 series mobile processors, AMD has now announced the associated "PRO" parts for business customers.

MATRIXX Software to Speak at Linux Foundation ONE Summit  Business Wire

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) Beta released  GamingOnLinux

Decoding Ubuntu: Our Comprehensive Guide  DataScientest

Savoir-faire Linux launches cybersecurity services for embedded systems  Electronic Products & Technology

In addition to Vulkan explicit sync under X11, another merge request hitting Mesa 24.1 overnight that's worth mentioning is the open-source Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver now supporting VK_EXT_image_compression_control...

At the start of April Mesa 24.1 saw Vulkan explicit sync support for Wayland implemented. Now hitting Mesa 24.1-devel today is Vulkan explicit sync support for X11/X.Org...

Mesa 24.1 Now Supports Vulkan Explicit Synchronization On X11  Phoronix

With the new security mitigation for the "Native BHI" Spectre vulnerability affecting even the recent Intel processors, a number of Phoronix readers have been curious about the performance impact of the mitigation. Over the past week I've been running some benchmarks on recent Intel CPUs to better look into any performance implications...

Native BHI Mitigation Performance Benchmarks On Core i9 14900K Under Linux 6.9  Phoronix

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...