In preparing for releasing Debian 12.0 "Bookworm" in June, out this weekend is the second release candidate of the Debian Installer for this next major Debian Linux release. Debian Installer Bookworm RC2 restores threading support in the installer with argo2…

Since 2020 Intel engineers have been working on Linear Address Masking (LAM) as a feature similar to Arm's Top Byte Ignore (TBI) for letting user-space store metadata within some bits of pointers without masking it out before use

Debian GNU/Linux 11.7 “Bullseye” is now available for download with 102 security updates and 92 miscellaneous bug fixes.

Back in 2021 AMD began preparing Linux kernel support for 5-level paging support with their future processors and building off the prior 5-level page table kernel support established by Intel

It sure doesn't feel like it's already been five years since Huawei announced EROFS as a read-only file-system initially designed for Android devices but has proven useful in the mainline Linux kernel to Linux users at large with interesting use-cases also…

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The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for April 30th, 2023, brings news about Ubuntu 23.10 codename, Nitrux 2.8, GNOME 44.1, Debian 11.7, and more.

Merged last week for the Linux 6.4 kernel were all of the VirtIO and Virtual Data Path Acceleration (VDPA) changes

Near the start of 2022 engineers out of the Qualcomm Innovation Center posted Linux driver patches for their Gunyah hypervisor

With Linux running on everything from tiny single board computers with basic WiFi or Ethernet networking up through massive super-computer clusters, the Linux networking subsystem continues seeing immense improvements each kernel cycle

Ubuntu 18.04 'Bionic Beaver' was a bountiful release that brought a bunch of brilliant improvements to the fore — but alas, the end is nigh. Well, kind

While there is already Fedora Silverblue as a Fedora Workstation variant leveraging RPM-OSTree for creating an ummutable OS image and Fedora Kinoite as a KDE-based alternative, Fedora Onyx has been proposed as a new immutable variant of Fedora Linux.

Ubuntu 23.04 ships with GNOME 44 and if, like some, you'd prefer to access MPRIS controls from there, there's a new extension on hand to help. Quick

Kubuntu Focus launches the Focus Ir14 Linux-powered laptop as an affordable, enterprise-ready system featuring Kubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Last week System76 released System76-Scheduler 2.0 as their Rust-written Linux desktop scheduler that serves as a user-space daemon to dynamically manage process priorities to favor performance and responsiveness

The Device Mapper 'DM' subsystem updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.4 kernel and it includes some notable performance optimizations.

As expected following yesterday's AMD Git activity, ROCm 5.5 was officially released overnight as AMD's latest version of their open-source GPU compute stack that is their alternative to NVIDIA's CUDA or Intel's oneAPI / Level Zero.

The USB/Thunderbolt changes were merged last week for the Linux 6.4 kernel and it ended up being a net reduction in the number of lines of code as a result of ditching two outdated USB drivers.