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Apple and Google won’t be able to stop third-party app stores in Japan (www.theverge.com)
Canonical Announces Availability of Real-Time Kernel for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
To get started with the real-time kernel for Ubuntu 24.04, check out the official documentation. One thing to keep in mind if you’re an NVIDIA GPU user is that the real-time Ubuntu kernel does not support the proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers.
Canonical Announces Availability of Real-Time Kernel for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
To get started with the real-time kernel for Ubuntu 24.04, check out the official documentation. One thing to keep in mind if you’re an NVIDIA GPU user is that the real-time Ubuntu kernel does not support the proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers.
I made an app to install websites as desktop applications on Linux (flathub.org)
Wayland usage has overtaken X11 (lemmy.world)
Source: linux-hardware.org/?view=os_display_server...
ChatGPT consumes 25 times more energy than Google (www.brusselstimes.com)
Linux 6.9 released (lore.kernel.org)
Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers (www.tomshardware.com)
Google Cloud accidentally deletes a financial institution account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)
A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too...
Updates from the GNOME (Foundation) board (ramcq.net)
FCC votes to restore net neutrality (www.theverge.com)
YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked (arstechnica.com)
Ubuntu 24.10 and Debian Trixie Are Getting a Refined APT Command-Line Interface - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
Defences Down! ClamTk is No Longer Maintained - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
note: ClamAV is a separate, distinct project whose development is overseen by the Talos Group, at Cisco Systems and is not affected by this decision
X’s Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks (www.theverge.com)
Ubuntu 24.04 Improves Power Efficiency on Laptops - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Desktop Linux Market Share: April 2024 (itsfoss.com)
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Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Delayed Due To XZ Nightmare (www.phoronix.com)
Mozilla released a Firefox Nightly test build with vertical tabs - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
Thunderbird goes from DEB to snap in Ubuntu 24.04 (www.linuxadictos.com)
Linux Mint 22 Adopts PipeWire, New Linux Kernel Cadence - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps (www.gamingonlinux.com)
How do you track security vulnerabilities?
Do you rely on mailing lists or news articles for security vulnerabilities? Please share....
GNU Coreutils 9.5 Can Yield 10~20% Throughput Boost For cp, mv & cat Commands (www.phoronix.com)
LibreOffice 24.2.2 Is Now Available for Download with More Than 70 Bug Fixes - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
Your first distribution
What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes....
Fedora 41 with Proposal to Adopt DNF5 (linuxiac.com)
Enhanced Performance: DNF5 promises faster repository metadata processing and improved package query operations, aiming to save users precious seconds during package management tasks....
As a linux user, do you know about/use openwrt?
I have many nerdy friends who have been Linux users for ages. But most of them don’t know such a thing as Openwrt exists or have never bothered to give it a try. It’s a very fun piece of software to play with and can be extremely useful for routing traffic. Wondering why it isn’t more popular/widely used.
NVIDIA R550 Linux Driver's Open Kernel Modules Performing Well On GeForce GPUs (www.phoronix.com)
Mutter Merges Experimental Variable Refresh Rate For GNOME 46 (www.phoronix.com)
Former distrohoppers, where did you settle down?
Which one(s) and why?
GNOME Shell and Mutter 46 Beta Released with Numerous Improvements - 9to5Linux (9to5linux.com)
Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility (www.phoronix.com)
Note: Xface wiki doesn’t explicitly mention version 4.20 comes with Wayland support....
Cyberus Develops Open-Source KVM Backend For VirtualBox (www.phoronix.com)
Making use of Linux’s Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) opens up new possibilities while users can still enjoy the VirtualBox VMM itself. The KVM support is part of the mainline kernel so there is less worries with not having to use the VirtualBox kernel driver, KVM tends to support new features quite quickly, and tends to be...
Leaky Vessels flaws allow hackers to escape Docker, runc containers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Use work laptop as personal device by dual booting on a separate internal drive?
I currently have a Dell laptop that runs Windows for work. I use an external SSD via the Thunderbolt port to boot Linux allowing me to use the laptop as a personal device on a completely separate drive. All I have to do is F12 at boot, then select boot from USB drive....
Intel Thread Director Virtualization Patches Boost Some Workloads By ~14% (www.phoronix.com)
With this Intel Thread Director Virtualization to ensure the VM can properly manage task placement between P and E cores, the feature ended up yielding around 14% better performance than the status quo. That 14% win was with the 3DMark benchmark running on a Windows VM.
More AMD SEV-SNP Support To Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.9 (www.phoronix.com)
Addition article: amd.com/…/amd-secure-encrypted-virtualization
Sendent for MS Teams: Integrating Nextcloud and Microsoft Teams - Nextcloud (nextcloud.com)
The new add-in integrates Nextcloud with Microsoft Teams, allowing users to effortlessly share files and folders stored on their private Nextcloud server directly from the Teams user interface.