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Qualcomm promises a major reset with upstream-first, Qualcomm Linux 2.0 for Dragonwing IoT platforms  CNX Software

Software Preservation Breakthrough: IOCCC-Winning VM Runs Linux on a Single Instruction  Tech Times

AMD ISP4 Driver Merged To Linux 7.2 Kernel  Phoronix

The media subsystem changes were merged tonight for the Linux 7.2 merge window and it includes the long-awaited AMD ISP4 driver now in the mainline kernel.. This ISP4 driver is what completes the loop for enabling the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a and other future high-end AMD Ryzen laptops...

Debian-Based SparkyLinux 2026.06 Rolling Brings Linux Kernel 7.1 Support  9to5Linux

The Linux kernel has dropped the last of its architecture-specific optimized MD5 hashing algorithm implementations...

This Linux distro wants to keep running software 1,000 years from now  XDA

SparkyLinux 2026.06 Released with Linux Kernel 7.0  Linuxiac

The Growth of Vulnerability Management: The Rise of Agentic AI Pentesting  Linux Journal

Godot 4.7 Open-Source Game Engine Released with Linux Wayland HDR Support  Linuxiac

Edge Applications are Exploding - How developers can best prepare with Holistic Security, Hardened Operating Systems and more  EE Times

Godot 4.7 is out today as the newest feature release for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine...

Godot 4.7 Released With HDR Output Support  Phoronix

I left tiling window managers for KDE, and my Linux desktop finally feels complete  MakeUseOf

Last month on Phoronix was an exclusive first look at the NVIDIA Vera CPU performance compared to prior-generation NVIDIA Grace as well as the current AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon competition. Following that was looking at how the ARM Linux server performance has evolved over the past eight years of AArch64 Linux servers. A Phoronix Premium supporter recently requested wanting to see how Vera compares to Ampere Altra. While Ampere Altra has been in the marketplace now for more than five years, they are some of the most readily available ARM Linux server options for DIY/enthusiast builds given the scarcity of AmpereOne and lack of other readily available socketed ARM CPU options. This article shows how the performance compares between Ampere Altra Max and NVIDIA Vera.

How NVIDIA Vera CPU Performance Compares To The Ampere Altra Max  Phoronix

I keep Linux on a USB for Windows emergencies — and it's saved me more than once  MakeUseOf

The EXT4 file-system improvements were merged today for Linux 7.2 with some enticing optimizations...

The Rust PNG crate, image-png, for PNG image encoding and decoding was already claimed to be the fastest PNG decoder in the world for the past year. Now with the latest optimizations, it's even faster...

Linux Foundation launches Appia for standardization in the AI value chain  SDxCentral