Lemur Pro is not the best for graphics-intensive tasks like gaming or video editing (see below for some more powerful rigs with dedicated graphics cards), but for everything else, this is one of the nicest laptops you can get. Dell’s XPS 13 Developer Edition was one of the first big-name laptops to ship with Linux … Read more
Johnny Johnson/Getty Images If you follow Linux closely, you won’t be surprised by the news from the Linux Plumbers Conference in Richmond, Virginia — which is the invite-only meeting for top Linux kernel developers — that the recently released Linux 6.6 is the next long-term support version (LTS) of Linux. Some people had thought the next … Read more
Image Source/Getty Images Richmond, Virginia: At the Linux Plumbers Conference, the invite-only meeting for the top Linux kernel developers, ByteDance Linux Kernel Engineer Cong Wang, proposed that we use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to tune the Linux kernel for the maximum results for specific workloads. Also: Rust in Linux: Where we are and … Read more
After years of searching for the perfect laptop—and making this search part of my full-time job here at WIRED—I’ve given up. I am sorry to say there is no such thing as the perfect laptop. There are too many variables at play, too many use cases to handle. All laptops have trade-offs. There are, however, … Read more
Art Wolfe/Getty Images Linux is the most flexible operating system on the market. With many Linux distributions, the sky’s the limit to what you can customize. You can tweak the look and feel of your desktop — or change the desktop altogether — to make it a very personal and unique experience. Also: How to … Read more
Dell RALEIGH, NC — Today, the Dell XPS-13 with Ubuntu Linux is easily the most well-known Linux laptop. Many users, especially developers — including Linus Torvalds — love it. As Torvalds recently said, “Normally, I wouldn’t name names, but I’m making an exception for the XPS 13 just because I liked it so much that … Read more
ICHAUVEL/Getty Images RALEIGH, NC — AlmaLinux is creating a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) without any RHEL code. How is that going, you ask? Benny Vasquez, chairperson of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, came to the open-source community convention All Things Open here to explain just that. This has become an issue because Red Hat recently changed the rules on how people could … Read more
The only changes I’ve made from the default are choosing a light theme and enabling the KDE Plasma floating panel. Jack Wallen/ZDNET SpiralLinux isn’t the most popular kid in school. It’s also not the prettiest, the smartest, or the one that always gets noticed. If you’re a fan of The Middle, consider it the “Sue … Read more
Nitat Termmee/Moment/Getty Images When I recently reported that the long-term support for some Linux kernels would be cut, people were upset. Mind you, the Linux kernel community knew that very few people were using these graying kernels, but it still got under people’s skins. For those folks, and for those who actually need a kernel … Read more
Qualys As security holes go, CVE-2023-4911, aka “Looney Tunables,” isn’t horrid. It has a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score of 7.8, which is ranked as important, not critical. On the other hand, this GNU C Library’s (glibc) dynamic loader vulnerability is a buffer overflow, which is always big trouble, and it’s in pretty much … Read more