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Linux Mint released its best version yet, and it’s the ultimate Windows replacement  MakeUseOf

While at the end of February, today Intel released the Intel Media Driver 2025Q4 release as well as the latest VPL GPU Runtime for their media stack...

Canonical put out a new blog post today highlighting their RISC-V work over 2025 that included switching to the RVA23 profile baseline for Ubuntu 25.10 and moving forward. Now with RVA23-compatible RISC-V hardware coming to market this year, Canonical is talking up the RISC-V possibilities when paired with the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release...

An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification  PC Gamer

Kvaser Launches Secure Linux Edge Platform  Construction World

Why Kubuntu's next big update is a massive win for multi-monitor Linux users  How-To Geek

If all goes well, Mesa developers are hoping to reach a consensus or at least some common ground on an AI policy in March. Mesa is the latest open-source project making considerations around the growing activity around AI coding agents and the like and how to deal with them for this project that is crucial to the Linux desktop and open-source 3D graphics drivers at large...

Heroic Games Launcher v2.20.1 brings more essential bug fixes  GamingOnLinux

Numerous AMDXDNA Ryzen AI Driver Fixes For Linux 7.0-rc2  Phoronix

Sent out today were all of the DRM/accel driver fixes for the week, ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc2 kernel release due out on Sunday...

Genode OS 26.02 is out as the latest feature update to this open-source operating system framework that also serves as the basis for their Sculpt general purpose OS...

Genode OS 26.02 Halfway Done Migrating From GitHub To Codeberg  Phoronix

Frostrail gets a new trailer to showcase its freezing train-survival gameplay  GamingOnLinux

Rockchip RK3588 and RK3576 H.264 and H.265 video decoders have been upstreamed to mainline Linux  CNX Software

Sudo-rs just broke 46 years of security tradition, and users aren't happy  XDA

Bazzite triples its userbase in 8 months as gamers seek a Windows alternative  XDA

Canonical today released LXD 6.7 as the latest feature update to this system container and virtual machine manager commonly used in Ubuntu Linux environments...

Handmade by human hands using machines  Digg

The fourth and final monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" is now available for testing. This alternative to the Ubuntu 26.04 daily ISOs is a monthly test release that also helps exercise the Ubuntu Linux release automation processes...

Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Snapshot 4 Released  Phoronix