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Kali Linux 2024.4 Released with Linux Kernel 6.11, GNOME 47, and New Hacking Tools
Kali Linux 2024.4 ethical hacking and penetration testing distribution is now available for download with Raspberry Pi 500 support, new tools, GNOME 47 support, and more. Here's what's new! The post Kali Linux 2024.4 Released with Linux Kernel 6.11, GN...
2024-12-17 00:41
Ubuntu brings comprehensive support to Azure Cobalt 100 VMs
Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro support Microsoft’s Azure Cobalt 100 Virtual Machines, featuring their new 64-bit Arm processors. With over 95% of packages compiled for this architecture, users can deploy a wide range of workloads—from application servers to...
2024-12-17 00:17
Fedora Linux Grappling With New vs. Old Intel Hardware Support For Compute Stack
Fedora is among the Linux distributions that package up the Intel Compute Runtime stack to make it easy to run OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero workloads on Intel graphics hardware via the distribution package manager and without having to jump through any...
2024-12-16 20:45
Linux Mastodon App Tuba Adds Post Scheduling, Drafts + More
A new version of Tuba, the open-source Mastodon client for Linux desktops, is out – and it’s a whopper! Tuba 0.9.0 delivers a wide array of new features, enhancements, and general finesse touching nearly every aspect of the client’s top-tier Fedi...
2024-12-16 20:36
Hyprland 0.46 Wayland Compositor Brings Several New Features
Hyprland 0.46 is out today as the newest update to this Wayland compositor that is packing in many new features ahead of the holidays...
2024-12-16 20:22
Decentralized AI: A Path Toward an Open and Human-Centered Future
In August, I had the pleasure of speaking on the topic of decentralized computing, the failed promise of the Internet, the emergence of autonomous AI agents, and the upcoming launch of LF Decentralized Trust. My presentation was deeply personal, inspi...
2024-12-16 17:25
Xfce 4.20 Desktop Released, This is What’s New
Christmas has arrived early for fans of the Xfce desktop environment, with the release of a major new version. Two years in development, Xfce 4.20 serves as the latest stable release of the revered lightweight desktop environment. New features, visua...
2024-12-16 15:26
Xfce 4.20 Released with New Features, Settings + More
Christmas has arrived early for fans of the Xfce desktop environment, with the release of a major new version. Two years in development, Xfce 4.20 serves as the latest stable release of the revered lightweight desktop environment. New features, visua...
2024-12-16 15:26
Xfce 4.20 Released, This is What’s New
Christmas has arrived early for fans of the Xfce desktop environment with the release of a major new version. Two years in development, Xfce 4.20 is the latest stable release of this lightweight desktop environment.  A clutch of new features, visual ...
2024-12-16 15:26
Git 2.48-rc0 Released With git-fsck Warning Over "Curiously Formatted" Ref Contents
Git maintainer Junio Hamano today announced Git 2.48-rc0 as the first test release toward the Git 2.48 distributed version control system release...
2024-12-16 14:30
Jumbo Data Packet Transmission & RACK-TLP Coming To Linux 6.14 Network Stack
Queued up this past week within the Linux kernel's networking subsystem for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle is transmission handling for jumbo data packets as well as RACK-TLP support for managing packet loss and re-transmission. This is work toward supp...
2024-12-16 13:36
Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.8 Is One of the First Distros to Ship with Xfce 4.20
PorteuX 1.8 is now available for download as the first distribution to ship with the Xfce 4.20 desktop environment. Here's what else is new in this release! The post Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.8 Is One of the First Distros to Ship with Xfce 4.20 appeare...
2024-12-16 11:46
Monthly News – November 2024
Hi everyone, I hope you are enjoying the BETA so far! This release introduces new features, tools, and artwork, so we anticipate a good number of bug reports. Every single fix helps us refine and improve the final release. Your feedback during the BETA...
2024-12-16 11:30
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Beta Performance Looks Great - Initial RHEL 9 vs. RHEL 10 Benchmarks
With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 now in public beta this month, I have begun testing out the RHEL 10 beta on a few systems in the lab. In this first look at RHEL 10 performance is seeing how well the RHEL 10 beta is performing relative to RHEL 9.5 stab...
2024-12-16 10:45
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 15th, 2024
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for December 15th, 2024, brings news about Xfce 4.20, Linux Mint 22.1 beta, Raspberry Pi 500, CentOS Stream 10, QEMU 9.2, OpenMandriva Lx 24.12, GNOME 46.7, Proton 9.0-4, KDE Gear 24.12, KDE Frameworks 6.9, as well as all t...
2024-12-16 10:21
Linux 6.14 Looks To Support AMD's Zen 5 RMPREAD Instruction & Segmented RMP Mode
For further enhancing the AMD EPYC virtualization experience on Linux, the upcoming Linux 6.14 looks like it will support Zen 5's new RMPREAD instruction and segmented RMP mode as part of Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP)...
2024-12-16 09:03
Blaize BLZP1600 SoC Support Coming To Linux 6.14 For AI Edge Processing
The upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is set to introduce support for the Blaize BLZP1600 SoC series that is powering various PCIe add-in-card and M.2 adapters for local AI edge processing...
2024-12-16 08:00
Get Valkey security patching and support with Ubuntu Pro
Canonical is pleased to announce security patching and support for Valkey through the Ubuntu Pro subscription. Ubuntu Pro is a subscription service for open-source software security, compliance and support that expands the maintenance period for all pa...
2024-12-16 07:45
Linux 6.14 To Introduce New DRM Boot Logger For Kernel Messages
Sent out today was the latest drm-misc-next pull request of various Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) changes queuing up ahead of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle. Most exciting this week is the DRM boot logger being queued for landing to better present kernel...
2024-12-16 06:34
Better Linux Support For The Samsung Galaxy Book Laptops With New Driver Coming
For those interested in using Linux on the Samsung Galaxy Book line of laptops that ship with Microsoft Windows out-of-the-box, a new "samsung-galaxybook" driver is being worked on for supporting additional laptop functionality not currently found with...
2024-12-16 06:16