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Nate Graham and John Veness are out today with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma. Notable for KDE Plasma 6.6.x~6.7 development this week were a lot of bug fixing -- including multiple crash fixes -- and some UI polishing too...

Modder turns PlayStation 5 into Linux gaming PC, runs GTA 5  VideoCardz.com

A modder has successfully ported Linux to the PS5, running GTA 5 Enhanced with ray tracing  Notebookcheck

Wine 11.4 is out today as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and allows for Windows games and applications to run on Linux and macOS...

Ahead of the GNOME 50 desktop release coming up in less than two weeks, GTK 4.22 is out today as the newest stable version of the GTK4 toolkit...

A pull request sent out today and already merged to Linux Git ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.0-rc3 has some new hardware driver support additions for the likes of ASUS, HP, Dell, and OneXPlayer...

New ASUS, Dell & OneXPlayer Hardware Support In Linux 7.0-rc3  Phoronix

I turned my Linux terminal into a local AI assistant and it’s so useful  MakeUseOf

Long-term support for Linux releases gets a new lease on life  The New Stack

Linux Rootkits Using Advanced eBPF and io_uring Techniques  CybersecurityNews

TUXEDO launches Linux workstation laptop with Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and RTX 5070 starting from €2199  VideoCardz.com

This book taught me 6 must-know facts about Linux  How-To Geek

OpenWrt’s latest update adds a piece of Alpine Linux  How-To Geek

ConnectSecure Delivers Unified Linux Patching Capabilities for MSPs to Serve Customers  ChannelE2E

For those looking for a low-power, well-built small office / home office Linux server with interesting connectivity options, the ZimaBoard 2 is an interesting option that has been available for some months now and powered by the Intel N150 processor. Besides the interesting single board hardware and well built aluminum chassis, the offering is rounded out by being preloaded with ZimaOS as a Linux-based "personal cloud OS" to easily get hosting for your own SOHO server needs.

ZimaBoard 2: An Interesting Intel-Powered Linux Home Mini Server Review  Phoronix

Linux From Scratch 13.0 now out with the 6.18.10 kernel  Notebookcheck

Sent out today was this week's batch of Slab allocator fixes for the Linux 7.0 development kernel. Making this pull notable is fixing a "severe performance regression" with a ~64% performance drop having been noted in late February...

How to Harden Firefox for Better Security on Linux  LinuxInsider

6 Google Drive replacements for Linux  How-To Geek