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Never-before-seen Linux backdoor is a Windows malware knockoff (arstechnica.com)

LibreOffice 7.6.1 Is Now Available for Download with More Than 120 Fixes (9to5linux.com)

Linux 6.5 Released With AMD P-State EPP Default, USB4 v2, MIDI 2.0 and More Hardware Bits (www.phoronix.com)

Linux 6.5 has many great features from the AMD P-State EPP driver default rather than ACPI CPUFreq for Zen 2 and newer supported AMD Ryzen systems, initial USB4 v2 enablement, initial MIDI 2.0 kernel driver work, more Intel hybrid CPU tuning, and a whole lot more....

The first conformant M1 GPU driver (rosenzweig.io)

Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the drivers are compatible with any OpenGL ES 3.1 application....

Good news for AMD Linux users - fTPM RNG will soon be disabled (www.phoronix.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2852886...

pine64 (pine64.com)

Anyone have a pine phone and running Linux (Ubuntu) as your EDC?...

Oracle: Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To (www.oracle.com)

Shots fired by Oracle. I trust them about as much as I have a chance of sailing with Larry Ellison (also, ever notice how he looks like a Bond villain?), but I could see their arguments swaying at least a few folks who are looking for a corporate-backed enterprise distro that has the resources and incentive to keep up. Maybe at...

ZorinOS? (zorin.com)

Didn’t try yet but might be a good way for ppl changing from windows to Linux - what do you think about?

Purism found a way to make its Linux phone even more expensive: meet the $2,199 Liberty Phone - Liliputing (liliputing.com)

On Open Source and the Sustainability of the Commons (ploum.net)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/18408267...

April Tools: Hammering out new COSMIC Features (blog.system76.com)

Vim Lands XDG Base Directory Specification Support (www.phoronix.com)

meme-maker: quick and simple CLI tool to generate memes (github.com)

I made this as a challenge to learn golang. If you ever wanted to make memes without having to use those pesky GUI tools, there you go! The only dependency is lmageMagick and the windows version comes batteries-included.

Mosh: Like ssh, but better (e.g. local echo and persistent sessions across sleeps / network changes) (mosh.org)

Fish rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100% (aus.social)

plan for the now completed port of fish to rust

Linux Mint 21.3 has been released (blog.linuxmint.com)

Navigating around in your shell (blog.meain.io)

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing Fully To Netplan For Network Configuration (www.phoronix.com)

The Canonical-developed Netplan has served for Linux network configuration on Ubuntu Server and Cloud versions for years. With the recent Ubuntu 23.10 release, Netplan is now being used by default on the desktop. Canonical is committing to fully leveraging Netplan for network configuration with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...

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