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Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users

An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog OMG Ubuntu: Ubuntu first switched to using Wayland as its default display server in 2017 before reverting the following year. It tried again in 2021 and has stuck with it since. But while Wayland is what most of us now log into after installing Ubuntu, anyone doing so on a PC or laptop with...

Mon May 20, 2024 04:43
Why a 'Frozen' Distribution Linux Kernel Isn't the Safest Choice for Security

Jeremy Allison — Sam (Slashdot reader #8,157) is a Distinguished Engineer at Rocky Linux creator CIQ. This week he published a blog post responding to promises of Linux distros "carefully selecting only the most polished and pristine open source patches from the raw upstream open source Linux kernel in order to create the secure distribution kernel...

Sun May 19, 2024 04:12
Linux Kernel 6.9 Officially Released

"6.9 is now out," Linus Torvalds posted on the Linux kernel mailing list, "and last week has looked quite stable (and the whole release has felt pretty normal)." Phoronix writes that Linux 6.9 "has a number of exciting features and improvements for those habitually updating to the newest version." And Slashdot reader prisoninmate shared this report...

Mon May 13, 2024 01:47
AMD Core Performance Boost For Linux Getting Per-CPU Core Controls

An anonymous reader shared this report from Phoronix: For the past several months AMD Linux engineers have been working on AMD Core Performance Boost support for their P-State CPU frequency scaling driver. The ninth iteration of these patches were posted on Monday and besides the global enabling/disabling support for Core Performance Boost, it's now...

Sun May 12, 2024 17:37
Red Hat (and CIQ) Offer Extend Support for RHEL 7 (and CentOS 7)

This week, The Register reported: If you are still running RHEL 7, which is now approaching a decade old, there's good news. Red Hat is offering four more years of support for RHEL 7.9, which it terms Extended Life Cycle Support or ELS. If you are running the free version, CentOS Linux 7, that hits its end-of-life on the same date: June 30, 2024....

Sun May 12, 2024 03:22
RHEL (and Rocky and Alma Linux) 9.4 Released - Plus AI Offerings

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 has been released. But also released is Rocky Linux 9.4, reports 9to5Linux: Rocky Linux 9.4 also adds openSUSE's KIWI next-generation appliance builder as a new image build workflow and process for building images that are feature complete with the old images... Under the hood, Rocky Linux 9.4 includes the same updated...

Sun May 12, 2024 01:50

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