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While Mesa 26.0 stable will be out soon, the belated Mesa 25.3.5 point release is now available for serving as the current latest stable point release...

Intel Arc B390 Panther Lake iGPU Impresses in Linux Performance Tests  TechPowerUp

There is less than two weeks to go until the official KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop release. Plasma 6.6 is still seeing bug fixes in this final stretch of development while KDE developers are also busy already on Plasma 6.7 feature work...

Wine 11.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release in the road toward the Wine 12.0 stable release next January...

Linux Kernel Pulls the Plug on IBM’s SMC-TCP Networking Code After Years of Neglect  WebProNews

When SaaS softens the OS -- but doesn't erase it  TechTarget

Microsoft Introduces LiteBox, a New Security-Focused Library OS  Linuxiac

Sent out today as a request for comments (RFC) by a Linux kernel engineer employed by IBM is a machine learning library for the Linux kernel. The intent is on plugging in running ML models to the Linux kernel that could be used for system performance optimizations and various other purposes...

DKnife Linux toolkit hijacks router traffic to spy, deliver malware  BleepingComputer

Well, here's an unexpected combination... Toyota's Toyota Connected North America unit is developing a console-grade open-source game engine. Making it even more unusual is their engineering choices of building around the Flutter toolkit and in turn the Dart programming language. This new game engine creation is called Fluorite...

Toyota Developing A Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine - Using Flutter & Dart  Phoronix

Linux Kernel's Memory Management Overhaul: How MGLRU Technology Is Reshaping System Performance  WebProNews

The Great Debian Developer Exodus: Inside the Silent Crisis Threatening Linux's Most Stable Distribution  WebProNews

GNOME Desktop’s Ambitious 50.0 Release Signals Major Shift in Linux Display Architecture  WebProNews

I’m done pretending open-source software is free  How-To Geek

"Work has started" on native Linux support for GOG Galaxy, co-founder says they're "a big fan of Linux"  PC Guide

While just missing out on the recent Mutter 50 beta release, merged today to Mutter Git ahead of next month's GNOME 50 desktop release are some improvements to the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support...

Mesa 26.0 Nears Completion: How Open-Source Graphics Stack Evolution Reshapes Enterprise Linux Deployments  WebProNews

Inside COSMIC Desktop: System76's Rust-Powered Linux Interface Prepares to Challenge Established Desktop Environments  WebProNews

I tried replacing Windows with Linux Mint, here's how it went  How-To Geek