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Meet Caerus, a Synaptic-Like GTK4 Package Manager for Void Linux  Linuxiac

Mesa 26.2 was branched today from Mesa Git and in turn Mesa 26.3-devel is now open on mainline...

Ahead of the AMD Advancing AI event next week, today AMD released Lemonade 11.0 as the latest feature release of their local AI server supporting AMD Ryzen CPUs, AMD Radeon GPUs, and AMD Ryzen AI NPU acceleration...

AMD Releases Lemonade 11.0 Local AI Server With Text-To-Speech, Other New Features  Phoronix

Windows 11 vs Linux Gaming Test Reveals There's More to It Than FPS  TechPowerUp

Windows 11 vs Linux Gaming Test Reveals There's More to It Than FPS  TechPowerUp

Ableton Live and Push can now run on Linux, unofficially  CDM Create Digital Music

Forgotten Microsoft-Signed Bootloaders Let Hackers Bypass Secure Boot For 11 Years  HotHardware

Audio Damage Tessera: a resonator plugin (mac, win, Linux, & iOS) that is musical and in motion  synth anatomy

Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off  The Register

I switched to COSMIC and discovered the dual-monitor workspace feature KDE should have shipped with  XDA

Earlier this month on Phoronix I reviewed the Razer Blade 18 RZ09-0582 as the first laptop Razer is certifying for Linux use via Canonical's hardware certification program for Linux. It offered very nice performance with the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics albeit costly with a configured price of $5399 USD. That review featured benchmarks on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS but for those wondering about the performance of Ubuntu against Windows 11 on this gaming/AI developer laptop, here are comparison benchmarks plus also tossing in the rolling-release CachyOS distribution.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Windows 11 vs. CachyOS Performance On A $5399 Laptop  Phoronix

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Windows 11 vs. CachyOS Performance On A $5399 Laptop  Phoronix

'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman  ZDNET

Putting Some Zig In A Linux-Based 3D Printer  Hackaday

В Cyberpunk 2077 Improved frame generation across two graphics cards in Linux  GameGPU

Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments  GamingOnLinux

Besides the ongoing challenges of enabling newer Apple Silicon SoC support on Linux, Apple peripheral support on Linux remains a mixed bag depending on the product as well. The latest functionality now being addressed is for having battery reporting work for the Apple Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard when connected via Bluetooth...

Linux Patches Finally Allow Apple Magic Keyboard/Mouse Battery Monitoring Via Bluetooth  Phoronix