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The first release candidate of systemd 261 is out today and it includes yet more features for this Linux init system and service manager...

systemd 261-rc1 Released With OS Installer, IMDS Subsystem & New storagectl  Phoronix

Proxmox 9.2 Virtual Environment launches with the 7.0 Linux kernel as default  Notebookcheck

Linux Provides Better Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Over Windows 11  Phoronix

Last month with the new AMD Zen 5 "Dual Edition" 3D V-Cache CPU, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition showed great performance on Linux across a range of workloads. Curious if the operating system was playing into the greater benefit of Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 versus just the workloads tested, this article is looking at both the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 on Microsoft Windows 11 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Linux across a range of native benchmarks.

For those with a new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop from HP or considering one of these new systems, the Intel ISH firmware has now been upstreamed to linux-firmware.git for enhancing the out-of-the-box support...

HP Panther Lake Systems Now Have Intel ISH Firmware For Linux  Phoronix

AI is raising hell for Linux managers buried under a flood of dupe bug reports  Yahoo Tech

The Next-Gen Flipper Zero Looks Even More Powerful Than Expected  bgr.com

“Fragnesia” Linux Kernel Flaw Raises Major Security Concerns  varindia.com

The AMD SoC Power Management Controller Driver is the latest seeing patch activity now in preparing for next-gen Zen 6 processors...

A new proposal volleyed today among LLVM developers is for Multi-Thread Parallel Compilation "MTPC" for the ThinLTO link-time optimization code. This is great news for today's high core count CPUs when looking to compile very large LLVM modules...

Flatpak is the best thing about Linux for one reason  MakeUseOf

A set of 42 patches were posted on Thursday for the AMDGPU kernel driver and associated AMDKFD compute driver code for enabling pipe reset capabilities for compute workloads...

It's not only the Linux networking subsystem where many fixes have been appearing -- including several notable security fixes for local privilege escalation issues -- leading to "craziness" from AI / LLMs. The Linux sound subsystem has also been seeing an uptick in activity with many "assisted-by" patches coming about in recent weeks...

Flipper Zero's makers are cooking up a wildly customizable Linux computer  Android Authority

Here's what was revealed during The Warhammer Skulls Showcase 2026  GamingOnLinux

Modular Linux-Powered Pocket Cyberdecks  Trend Hunter

Good News! After Lenovo and Dell, Now HP Pledges to Support Linux Vendor Firmware Service  It's FOSS

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The post witr: A Tool That Explains Why a Linux Process Is Running first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.