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Opera GX Linux version confirmed for Q1 2026, challenges Windows 11  Windows Central

A new feature that appears ready for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle is revocable resource management...

Alpine Linux Turns Last Year’s Hosting Trouble Into Long-Term Stability  Linuxiac

Photoshop Installer Runs on Linux Despite Adobe Not Giving a Damn For Years  It's FOSS

I paid $48 for this Linux distro to save 48 hours of work—and it was worth it  How-To Geek

Surfshark adds post-quantum encryption on Mac, Linux, and Android – more support coming soon  TechRadar

Support for newer HDMI features in the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver have been limited due to being blocked by the HDMI Forum. There are though some new HDMI gaming features being enabled via new AMDGPU kernel driver patches that are coming outside of AMD and based on public knowledge and/or "trying things out until they work/break" for functionality like HDMI Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) and Auto Low Latency Mode...

New Patches Provide HDMI VRR & Auto Low Latency Mode Gaming Features For AMD Linux GPU Driver  Phoronix

RADV Vulkan Driver Now Implements HPLOC For Even Faster Ray-Tracing Performance  Phoronix

There have been a number of nice RADV driver Vulkan ray-tracing performance optimizations for Mesa in recent times... Here is yet another merge request now merged for Mesa 26.0 and helping deliver some nice performance uplift for ray-traced games on Linux. And, yes, this is yet another Valve contribution to this open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver...

Following last week's updated Intel LLM-Scaler-vLLM release for helping advance vLLM usage on Intel Arc Graphics, LLM Scaler Omni is out with a new release today for that LLM-Scaler environment focused on image / voice / video generation using Omni Studio and Omni Serving modes...

Myrlyn 1.0 was released today as the package manager GUI developed by SUSE engineers and started out just over one year ago during a SUSE Hack Week event as a SUSE/Qt package manager program not dependent upon YaST or Ruby...

Myrlyn 1.0 Released For Package Manager GUI Spawned By SUSE's Hack Week  Phoronix

For those organizations on the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) bandwagon for increasing transparency around software components with license compliance, vulnerability management, and securing the software supply chain, proposed patches to the Linux kernel would introduce an SPDX SBOM Generation Tool...

Wine 11 properly implements an experimental feature from two years ago  XDA

Linux 6.19 hits speed bump before final release  Techzine Global

Tromjaro Brings Mac-Like Polish to Trade-Free Linux  findarticles.com

Linux Gamers Are Finally Getting Their Own Browser  It's FOSS

Linus Torvalds signals likely delay for final Linux 6.19 release  Neowin

Social.kernel.org: Fediverse Platform for Linux Kernel Collaboration  WebProNews