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Over the weekend, Linus Torvalds, head of the Linux kernel project, announced the availability of Linux 6.12-rc4, the fourth release candidate of the Linux 6.12 development cycle. As an opinionated man, Torvalds told everyone that this release didn't give him "the warm and fuzzies" because of how big the update was this week.

Earlier this year SiFive announced the HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board with plans for shipping in July. That timeframe for shipping since passed but SiFive today issued a new update on their RISC-V development board.

Twenty years in the making, Ubuntu 24.10 has arrived, and it brings back the Ubuntu 4.10 startup sound. Here's what else you can expect.

Less than two months since the release of version 1.6, PorteuX 1.7 arrives with several fixes, sub-500 MB ISOs, as well as updates to most of the seven desktop environments supported. The seven are GNOME, Cinnamon, KDE, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, and Xfce. The Linux kernel 6.11.4 is used for all these flavors.

Secure remote connections are essential when managing a Linux server, and one of the most widely used and trusted methods for remote server administration is Secure Shell (SSH).

Ubuntu comes pre-installed with the Firefox web browser, but it just so happens that the popular Google Chrome also works. You can use the Google browser on one of the more popular Linux distributions, just as you would on macOS and Windows.

It’s been more than 8 years since the last 1.3.1 stable. Clementine, the old popular music player and library organizer, finally got a new stable release!

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.20 for running Windows games/applications on Linux, Hangover 9.20 is now available for this extension of Wine that builds off that codebase while pairing it with an x86/x86_64 emulator for running Windows programs on other CPU architectures like ARM64 Linux.

It’s no secret that a default Windows installation is… Hefty. In more ways than one, Windows is a bit on the obese side of the spectrum, from taking up a lot of disk space, to requiring hefty system requirements (artificial or not), to coming with a lot of stuff preinstalled not everyone wants to have to deal with.

This is something very interesting, and weird at the same time. What do you think?

Mozilla and Google complicate life for users of uBlock Origin and uBlock Lite. Both uBlock Origin and its smaller sibling, uBlock Origin Lite, are experiencing problems thanks to browser vendors that really ought to know better.

Well, that was fast. It was only back in early September that Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 1.0. Now, Red Hat has followed up by announcing the general availability of RHEL AI 1.2.

Over the past week Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been active on a Linux kernel mailing list thread around avoiding barrier_nospec() in copy_from_user() due to being "overkill and painfully slow."

Explaining the problem in more technical detail, the GNU Boot project said that the vboot source code used in Coreboot and in the vboot-utils package, contains the non-free code in its test data in tests/futility/data. To address the issue, it has cleaned up the code and re-released the affected tarball packages, code improvements have also been made.

The ASUS NUC 14 Pro AI is a powerful, compact mini PC featuring the Intel Core Ultra processor (Series 2), which integrates CPU, GPU, and NPU architectures to deliver up to 120 platform TOPS for AI processing. It is designed for consumer, commercial, and edge computing applications.

Drova - Forsaken Kin from developer Just2D and publisher Deck13 was released recently, and if you love action RPGs it's one you need to check out. It has Native Linux support and is playable on the Steam Deck although no rating from Valve yet.

Researchers with Seattle-based Protect AI plan to release a free, open source tool that can find zero-day vulnerabilities in Python codebases with the help of Anthropic's Claude AI model.

Canonical has put the official Linux Intel NPU driver on the Snap Store.

In the first article in this two-part series, published in the August 2024 issue of OSFY, we discussed the role of the C library in system call execution. We talked of how the C library loads system call arguments into architecture-specific registers, generating syscall interrupt, which switches the mode from the user to the kernel.

Since purchasing an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" laptop for Linux testing last month, the performance has been coming in below expectations. Among the tests were finding Xe2 graphics on Lunar Lake performing slower that under Windows 11 and in comparison slower than Meteor Lake graphics on Linux.