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While the Linux kernel has inclusive terminology guidelines for the past five years to replace phrases like master/slave and blacklist/whitelist, there has surprisingly been a "genocide" function within the kernel that was questioned when it was first submitted for inclusion but now removed in Linux 6.19...

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" today signed off on a new feature for Fedora Cloud 44 to switch /boot to being as a Btrfs sub-volume rather than a separate partition...

The RISC-V CPU architecture changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel...

AerynOS 2025.12 is available today as the latest installment of this from-scratch Linux distribution originally known as Serpent OS...

AerynOS 2025.12 Brings Many Package Updates  Phoronix

AerynOS 2025.12 Released with GNOME 49.2, Mesa 25.3, and KDE Plasma 6.5.4  9to5Linux

Overwatch 2 with Season 20 has some very annoying crash-bugs on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Join Linux Agent Initiative  findarticles.com

OpenAI, Anthropic and Block Set up Agentic AI Foundation Under Linux Foundation  Analytics India Magazine

AMD previously talked of simplifying the in-box Linux support for ROCm during the second half of 2025. So far we haven't seen any groundbreaking changes from that initiative besides AMD working on various package archives/repositories to make it easier to install the latest ROCm on different Linux distributions. But today a big announcement is now public that Canonical with next year's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release will provide official ROCm packages along with other libraries...

Canonical To Distribute AMD ROCm Libraries With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS  Phoronix

The Linux Foundation today announced it's formed another foundation under its growing umbrella that extends well beyond the traditional "Linux" landscape: the Agentic AI Foundation...

With Firefox 146 released, which is exciting for delivering fractional scaling on Wayland, Firefox 147 Beta is now available and it's also quite exciting to Linux users for another reason...

Firefox 147 Beta Released With XDG Base Directory Support  Phoronix

Stop downloading GitHub binaries manually: Do this instead  How-To Geek

Yesterday I noted some early performance regressions I've found on the Linux 6.19 kernel compared to Linux 6.18 LTS stable. Those initial benchmarks were on an AMD EPYC server. Since then I've seen many of the same workloads regressing similarly on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation between Linux 6.18 and Linux 6.19 Git. Given the significant impact and AMD Threadripper processors always helping out to speed-up Linux kernel build times to make for a quicker and more manageable kernel bisecting experience, here is a look at some of the results for the Linux 6.19 performance regressions.

Gemini's command line tool is a productivity game changer, and it's free - how I use it  ZDNET

AMD today announced their newest member of their expansive EPYC family: the EPYC Embedded 2005 series. The new AMD EPYC Embedded 2005 Series are intended primarily for networking, storage, and industrial devices while these BGA processors will likely see other interesting thin-server uses as well.

For benefiting their Azure cloud and other users of Hyper-V virtualization at large, Microsoft has rolled out a number of feature additions and improvements for their Hyper-V kernel code in Linux 6.19...

ICYMI Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: DRAM Shortages Affect Board Pricing, New Linux, Switching from Arduino and More! #CircuitPython #Python #micropython @Raspberry_Pi  Adafruit