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Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG (www.theregister.com)

Can I implement the solution to this problem myself easily? Or do I need to recompile something, more complicated? (gitlab.gnome.org)

The issue in the link already has a proposed solution (as far as I understand), but I don’t understand how I can “use” that. Can I just copy-pasta the code? Or is it more complicated?

MX Linux 23 “Libretto” released (mxlinux.org)

IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view (www.lpi.org)

The GNU C Library version 2.38 is now available (lists.gnu.org)

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MX Linux 23 “Libretto” Is Out with Linux Kernel 6.4, Based on Debian Bookworm (9to5linux.com)

MX Linux 23 “Libretto” is now available for download as the latest stable version of this lightweight Debian-based distribution featuring KDE Plasma, Xfce, and Fluxbox editions....

The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away (www.phoronix.com)

Alice “psykose” who is easily responsible for the highest number of commits per author over the past year has decided to step down from maintaining her packages....

Software Freedom & Trademarks: Examining Rust's New Policy through the Lens of FOSS History (sfconservancy.org)

Congratulations - you have finally won me over.. MS user since MS DOS (Not mine) (lemmy.world)

Post from u/BestRetroGames on the r/kde, not mine. Interesting perspective nonetheless...

Emacs 29.1 released (lists.gnu.org)

Systemd 254 - now with soft-reboot (github.com)

Systemd 254 released and now has a new soft-reboot option:...

pine64 (pine64.com)

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

Mesa 23.2 Brings OpenGL 3.1 & OpenGL ES 3.0 Support on Asahi, New RADV Features (9to5linux.com)

GNOME Devs Are Working on a New Window Management System (9to5linux.com)

Gnome designer shares prototype replacement for activities (mastodon.social)

This week in KDE: Sounds like Plasma 6 (pointieststick.com)

Excellent progress was made this week towards the goal of full sound theme support in Plasma 6, among other topics–including some important performance work for KWin!

On the future of free long term support for Linux distributions (utcc.utoronto.ca)

The reality is that reliable backports of security fixes is expensive (partly because backports are hard in general). The older a distribution version is, generally the more work is required. To generalize somewhat, this work does not get done for free; someone has to pay for it....

How it feels to install windows in 2023 (sh.itjust.works)

LXD Maintainership Being Limited To Canonical Employees (www.phoronix.com)

Zorin OS 16.3 Release Features a New Upgrade App and Other Changes (news.itsfoss.com)

What are the implications of having Anaconda running at the bootloader level as an installer for Fedora WS? (docs.fedoraproject.org)

I’ve been trying Workstation recently. Python dependency issues caused me to switch to Silverblue for the last 2 years. A new machine with Nvidia got me to try WS. I just had a mystery problem with Python after booting today and that got me looking into Anaconda. I didn’t know it was used under the kernel like this. I’m...

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