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Discover a step-by-step guide to install and configure MariaDB on Ubuntu and how to update and remove it with practical examples.LinuxToday
GNOME Continues Hashing Out Individual Home Directory Encryption, Modernizing Platform
GNOME developers have been making progress on being able to individually encrypt user home directories as well as modernizing platform infrastructure as part of the investments made by Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund...
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Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS is here as an up-to-date installation media designed for those who want to install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on a new computer.LinuxToday
Linux 6.12 Finishing The Transition For Moving Intel CPUs Past The "Family 6" Era
As written about early in the year, future Intel CPUs will be moving past the "Family 6" identification used since the mid-1990s with the P6 micro-architecture. Since then Intel has continued releasing new CPUs under "Family 6" with different model IDs while AMD has been more open to changing its Family ID every Zen generation or two. With Intel using Fa…
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As written about early in the year, future Intel CPUs will be moving past the 'Family 6' identification used since the mid-1990s with the P6 micro-architecturewww.phoronix.com
The KDE Gear 24.08.1 apps collection is now available, with key fixes for Dolphin, KClock, and Filelight and updated translations.LinuxToday
AMD Posts Linux Patches For New Secure AVIC Guest Feature
AMD engineers today posted the first "request for comments" patches in enabling support for Secure AVIC guest handling as a new hardware feature with upcoming processors...
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AMD engineers today posted the first 'request for comments' patches in enabling support for Secure AVIC guest handling as a new hardware feature with upcoming processors.www.phoronix.com
Ardour 8.7 Digital Audio Workstation rolls out new features, including track dragging, ruler changes, and enhanced MIDI scene markers.LinuxToday
Intel Graphics Compiler Can Now Be Built For RISC-V
The Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used on Windows as a shader compiler back-end and both for Windows/Linux as part of their OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero compute stack can now be compiled for RISC-V 64-bit...
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Haiku R1 Beta 5 Released With Dark Mode Theme & Support For USB Audio
The BeOS-inspired Haiku OS is out today with its fifth beta release as it works toward the long-awaited Haiku R1 stable release...
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A new type of malware has been discovered that is able to bypass detection by 14 major WordPress security scanners, including Wordfence.LinuxToday
TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen3 is powered by AMD’s top-tier processor, the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX, featuring 16 cores and 32 threads.LinuxToday
Juno Computers launched the Juno Tab 3 tablet powered by Linux and running the Debian-based Mobian Linux or Ubuntu/Kubuntu 24.04 LTS.LinuxToday
The upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 operating system promises a new feature called “permissions prompting” for an extra layer of privacy and security.LinuxToday
GNOME Foundation Accepting Applications For New Executive Director
Following the GNOME Foundation Executive Director leaving after less than one year, the GNOME Foundation has formally begun their search for a new executive director...
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Ubuntu 24.10 ARM64 Installer Supports The Snapdragon-Powered Lenovo ThinkPad X13s
While not quite as exciting as the latest ARM64 laptops sporting the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 series SoCs, the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s laptop using the older Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 is now available to boot and install using the generic ARM64 images of the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10...
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While not quite as exciting as the latest ARM64 laptops sporting the new Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 series SoCs, the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s laptop using the older Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 is now available to boot and install using the generic ARM64 images of t…www.phoronix.com
AMD Engineer Proposes "Attack Vector Controls" To Rethink CPU Security Mitigation Handling
David Kaplan who is a Senior Fellow at AMD focused on security technologies has published an initial set of Linux kernel patches for "Attack Vector Controls" in rethinking the CPU security mitigation handling. The proposed Attack Vector Controls makes it easier to manage desired security mitigations to have enabled/disabled based upon intent of the…
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David Kaplan who is a Senior Fellow at AMD focused on security technologies has published an initial set of Linux kernel patches for 'Attack Vector Controls' in rethinking the CPU security mitigation handlingwww.phoronix.com
Ruffle Continues Letting Adobe Flash Player Support Live On In Open-Source
Most of you have fortunately not had to think about Adobe Flash support in years, but for those still having some old assets in Adobe Flash/SWF format or wanting to relive some old games/entertainment based in Flash, the open-source Ruffle project remains one of the leading contenders for dealing with Flash in 2024 and beyond. Ruffle is a Rust-based emulator f…
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Most of you have fortunately not had to think about Adobe Flash support in years, but for those still having some old assets in Adobe Flash/SWF format or wanting to relive some old games/entertainment based in Flash, the open-source Ruffle project re…www.phoronix.com
LoongArch KVM To Speed-Up ARM/x86 Binary Translation
The LoongArch changes for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) have been submitted ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window opening. For enhancing KVM virtualization on these Chinese CPUs is enabling Loongson Binary Translation (LBT) for accelerating ARM/x86 binary translation...
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Chrome Adds Support For FreeDesktop Secret Service & Better Wayland Window Dragging
The Google Chrome/Chromium web browser merged two notable features yesterday for Linux users...
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Samba Secures A Big Investment From Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is set to make a €688,800 investment into the Samba open-source project that re-implements the SMB networking protocol and focused on better file and print service interoperability with Microsoft Windows systems...
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