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Linus Torvalds says Linux is not "anti-AI", tells haters to 'fork it' and 'just walk away'  TechRadar

The Linux Tax is real—and it's holding desktop Linux back  How-To Geek

Linus Torvalds tells AI critics to fork Linux or walk away  TechSpot

GETAC manufactures a line of rugged/semi-rugged laptops for use in the public safety, defense, industrial manufacturing, oil and gas, and other industries. While shipping with Microsoft Windows out-of-the-box, a new driver has been proposed as GETAC MPMD as a minimal ACPI driver for improving support for these GETAC rugged laptops. In particular, the driver will allow the various programmable buttons on these laptops to work under Linux...

New Linux Driver Improving Support For GETAC Rugged Laptops  Phoronix

Jagex Launcher Linux Beta released for Old School Runescape  GamingOnLinux

The Ubuntu Kernel Team issued a statement this morning to proactively warn Ubuntu Linux users on Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS HWE users that the next kernel point release will contain a performance regression for AMD GPUs in compute-heavy workloads with up to a 42x performance hit. The positive news is that due to this being an upstream regression in a Linux 7.0 point release, upstream stakeholders and other Linux distributions that more quickly shipped the problematic code already have a fix coming down the pipe...

Ubuntu Kernel Team Warns Of Temporary AMD GPU Performance Regression Up To 42x  Phoronix

This one tweak made my Linux PC closer to a Steam machine  MakeUseOf

Now in the upstream linux-firmware.git centralized repository is the firmware binary needed for enabling the Imagination Tech PowerVR BXM-4-64 Rogue GPU found with the Alibaba T-Head TH1520 SoC...

Imagination PowerVR BXM-4-64 GPU Firmware Upstreamed For The T-Head TH1520  Phoronix

Remapping the Useless AI Slop Copilot Key in Linux  It's FOSS

Game on the go with the new Humble Handhelds Bundle  GamingOnLinux

Proton Experimental brings fixes for Diablo IV, Marvel Rivals, RPGMaker Engine games  GamingOnLinux

Torvalds opens the door to AI  Techzine Global

The post agentOS: Run AI Agents in a Secure Linux Sandbox first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

I burned through half of my E2B sandbox budget in just two weeks by spinning up containers for AI agents

The post agentOS: Run AI Agents in a Secure Linux Sandbox first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

SteamOS 3.8.15 brings a performance fix and SteamOS 3.8.23 Beta is out too  GamingOnLinux

Linux is not anti-AI, accept it or fork off, Linus Torvalds says  India Today

As a follow-up to the article over ROCm 7.14 being tagged, AMD has formally announced the availability of ROCm 7.14 and it's their new production release rather than being a tech preview...

Linus Torvalds to AI Critics in Linux Community: 'Fork It or Walk Away'  finance.biggo.com