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[#] Fri Nov 14 2025 00:53:22 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Miracle-WM 0.8 Adds More Features For This Mir-Powered Wayland Compositor

Miracle-WM 0.8 was released on Wednesday as another step forward for this tiling Wayland compositor built atop Canonical's Mir software. Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek continues driving new features into Miracle-WM as it works toward its v1.0 milestone...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Miracle-WM-0.8

[#] Fri Nov 14 2025 02:24:57 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Google to allow Android users with high pain tolerance to sideload unverified apps

Promises some easing of rules that knobble indie devs, eventuallyGoogle has decided to loosen some of its recently introduced rules regarding registration of Android developers and their apps, but isn’t rushing to deliver the modest changes it plans.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/google_keep_android_open_response/

[#] Fri Nov 14 2025 03:56:21 UTC from rss <>

Subject: And Now for Something Completely Different: Kicking the Tires and Test Driving a BSD

What happens when a seasoned Linux user returns to BSD for a hands-on review? GhostBSD delivers unexpected surprises.

https://fossforce.com/2025/11/and-now-for-something-completely-different-kicking-the-tires-and-test-driving-a-bsd/

[#] Fri Nov 14 2025 05:28:00 UTC from rss <>

Subject: How to Handle .pacnew Files in Arch Linux

Understand how Arch Linux creates .pacnew files during updates and how to manage configuration changes without breaking your setup.

https://linuxiac.com/how-to-handle-pacnew-files-in-arch-linux/

[#] Fri Nov 14 2025 06:59:21 UTC from rss <>

Subject: The Incredible Evolution Of AMD EPYC HPC Performance Shown In The Azure Cloud

Last week the Microsoft Azure HBv5 instances reached general availability as powered by the custom EPYC 9V64H CPUs with HBM3 memory. These very interesting EPYC processors for memory bandwidth intensive workloads were announced last year while have finally reached GA with jaw-dropping results for software able to take advantage of the 6.7 TB/s memory bandwidth thanks to the HBM memory. The Azure HBv5 benchmarks last week showed how they compare to prior generation HBv4 instances while this article is taking things further and putting the performance into perspective against the older HBv2 and HBv3 instances.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-azure-hbv2-hbv5

[#] Fri Nov 14 2025 08:30:58 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Beginners Guide for Which Command in Linux

The which command locates the executable command or file location in the user’s environmental path. It will give you the complete path an executable command or file is pointing towards in your file system.

https://linuxtldr.com/which-command/

[#] Fri Nov 14 2025 10:02:22 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Firefox adds AI Window, users want AI wall to keep it out

Browser maker scolds AI objectors, "The web is changing, and sitting it out doesn’t help anyone"Mozilla is apparently a lot more excited about adding AI features to Firefox than its community. The org has decided that AI deserves its own new environment in the browser, a move its fans met with withering criticism.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/firefox_adds_ai_window/

[#] Fri Nov 14 2025 11:33:57 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Linux Looks To Remove SHA1 Support For Signing Kernel Modules

Patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week are seeking to remove SHA1 support for signing of kernel modules. This is part of the larger effort in the industry for moving away from SHA1 given its vulnerabilities to hash collisions and superior hashing algorithms being available...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Patch-Drop-SHA1-Mod-Sign

[#] Fri Nov 14 2025 13:05:18 UTC from rss <>

Subject: Debian-Based Tails 7.2 Released with Tor Browser 15 Anonymous Web Browser

Tails 7.2 has been released today as the second minor update in the Tails 7.x series of this portable Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and designed to protect you against surveillance and censorship.

https://9to5linux.com/debian-based-tails-7-2-released-with-tor-browser-15-anonymous-web-browser

[#] Fri Nov 14 2025 14:36:56 UTC from rss <>

Subject: EROFS File-System Continues Attracting More Industry Players

The EROFS read-only file-system started by Huawei and now maintained by a growing number of contributors continues attracting even more interest. EROFS has exhibited much potential for mobile devices as well as container use-cases while proving itself to be quite robust since its mainlining back in 2019...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/EROFS-Gains-Extra-Reviewer

[#] Fri Nov 14 2025 16:10:10 UTC from rss <>

Subject: To 'Infinity' ... and beyond: MX Linux 25 has arrived

Systemd-free option still available if you choose that downloadMX Linux 25 "Infinity" is now available, and the new version has some significant differences from the 2023 release, with things that used to be boot-time choices now more loaded pre-install decisions.…

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/mx_linux_25_infinity_released/

[#] Fri Nov 14 2025 17:41:17 UTC from rss <>

Subject: NVIDIA CUDA 13.0 U2 Brings DGX Spark Performance Improvements

CUDA 13.0 Update 2 is now available as the latest incremental improvement to NVIDIA's compute stack...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-CUDA-13.0-Update-2

[#] Fri Nov 14 2025 19:12:44 UTC from rss <>

Subject: openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Defaults to GRUB2-BLS Bootloader for New UEFI Installs

The openSUSE project announced today that the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling-release distribution has recently switched from GRUB2 to GRUB2-BLS as the default bootloader when installed via YaST in UEFI mode.

https://9to5linux.com/opensuse-tumbleweed-now-defaults-to-grub2-bls-bootloader-for-uefi-installs

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