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Godot 4.7 Open-Source Game Engine Released with Linux Wayland HDR Support  Linuxiac

Edge Applications are Exploding - How developers can best prepare with Holistic Security, Hardened Operating Systems and more  EE Times

Godot 4.7 is out today as the newest feature release for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine...

Godot 4.7 Released With HDR Output Support  Phoronix

I left tiling window managers for KDE, and my Linux desktop finally feels complete  MakeUseOf

Last month on Phoronix was an exclusive first look at the NVIDIA Vera CPU performance compared to prior-generation NVIDIA Grace as well as the current AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon competition. Following that was looking at how the ARM Linux server performance has evolved over the past eight years of AArch64 Linux servers. A Phoronix Premium supporter recently requested wanting to see how Vera compares to Ampere Altra. While Ampere Altra has been in the marketplace now for more than five years, they are some of the most readily available ARM Linux server options for DIY/enthusiast builds given the scarcity of AmpereOne and lack of other readily available socketed ARM CPU options. This article shows how the performance compares between Ampere Altra Max and NVIDIA Vera.

How NVIDIA Vera CPU Performance Compares To The Ampere Altra Max  Phoronix

I keep Linux on a USB for Windows emergencies — and it's saved me more than once  MakeUseOf

The EXT4 file-system improvements were merged today for Linux 7.2 with some enticing optimizations...

The Rust PNG crate, image-png, for PNG image encoding and decoding was already claimed to be the fastest PNG decoder in the world for the past year. Now with the latest optimizations, it's even faster...

Linux Foundation launches Appia for standardization in the AI value chain  SDxCentral

Heroic Games Launcher [2026]: Epic & GOG Free on Linux  tech-insider.org

FOSS Weekly #26.25: AUR Supply Chain Attack, Commodore Phones, SonicDE, Y Server, Kernel 7.1 and More  It's FOSS

Sludgineers is an oddly satisfying active incremental game about cleaning up pollution  GamingOnLinux

A bug in the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver leading to some laptop displays freezing after periods of use may finally be close to being resolved. Given the length and quantity of bug reports and one of the problematic commits being tracked back to 2017, it's a heavy hitting issue for some Linux users. With the help of Claude Code, it looks like a fix is on the way to the Linux kernel...

10ZiG Expands Strategic Partnership with ThinPrint to Advance Printing Flexibility Across 10ZiG Linux OS  PRWeb

Linux users face a Microsoft Secure Boot headache - here's the painkiller  ZDNET

The cryptographic subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window...

Canonical reveal Myna, a speech to text system for Ubuntu Linux  GamingOnLinux

After the AUR Malware Flood, Yay v13 Lets You Script Your Own Safety Net  It's FOSS