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Over the past number of weeks the Dell Pro Max with GB10 has been undergoing a lot of testing at Phoronix. This NVIDIA GB10 powered mini PC with its 20 Arm cores (10 x Cortex-X925, 10 x Cortex-A725) and Blackwell GPU offers a lot of combined compute potential for AI and other workloads. In this article is a look at how the Dell Pro Max with GB10 competes with AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" within the Framework Desktop SFF PC.

Nvidia Expands GeForce Now to Fire TV and Linux for 4K Ray Tracing  WebProNews

Doubtful Linux can ever meaningfully challenge Windows 11? This new distro may change your mind  TechRadar

Next-generation AMD server SoCs -- presumably the AMD EPYC "Venice" on Zen 6 -- is poised to introduce a firmware-agnostic platform configuration platform configuration change method/format. This is This aims to improve server platform interoperability and eliminate redundant configuration efforts for different firmware solutions...

3 must-try tools if you want Windows-like desktop widgets on Ubuntu  How-To Geek

6 things Windows users always get wrong about Linux (and what’s actually true)  How-To Geek

Want to try the original KDE desktop from 1996? I did, and it took me back - here's how  ZDNET

GoBruteforcer Botnet brute-forces Passwords for FTP, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin on Linux Servers  CybersecurityNews

TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 16 Gen10 Linux Laptop Unveiled with New OLED Display  9to5Linux

PoC Exploit Released for Android/Linux Kernel Vulnerability CVE-2025-38352  CybersecurityNews

IPFire Linux Firewall Distro Adds Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 6 Support, LLDP and CDPv2  9to5Linux

PoC Exploit Released for Android and Linux Kernel Vulnerability CVE-2025-38352  Cyber Press

GNOME dev gives fans of Linux's middle-click paste the middle finger  theregister.com

Linux gains native NVIDIA GeForce NOW support  Windows Central

UNIX V4 is back: I booted into the 1973 OS and it made me weirdly happy  How-To Geek

Natalie Vock as one of the open-source developers on Valve's Linux graphics team has been spearheading another big ray-tracing performance improvement for the AMD Radeon Vulkan driver. RADV ray-tracing performance improved a lot in 2025 but it's looking like 2026 could be even more exciting...

A new feature in the queue for likely introduction with the next version of the Linux kernel (Linux 6.20~7.0) is compiler-based context and locking analysis. This kernel code depends on the yet-to-be-released LLVM Clang 22 compiler but can provide some powerful insights to kernel developers...

Compiler-Based Context & Locking Analysis On Deck For Linux 7.0 Paired With Clang 22+  Phoronix

For those with Acer laptops running Linux on GitHub there has been an out-of-tree driver providing an experimental "acer-wmi-battery" kernel module to allow controlling battery-related features. Now a cleaned-up version of that driver is working on getting into the mainline Linux kernel...

Acer Laptop Battery Control Driver Looks Toward The Upstream Linux Kernel  Phoronix