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A nice, overdue usability improvement is on the way for those using Apple Macs under Linux. Finally there will be the ability to preserve the same backlight brightness across reboots under Linux...

Chinese APT Group Uses Linux Exploits To Redirect Traffic and Deploy Malicious Software  Cyber Press

Intel Arc B390 iGPU beats AMD Radeon 890M by 23% in Phoronix Linux gaming tests  VideoCardz.com

China-Nexus Hackers Target Linux Devices to Redirect Traffic and Deploy Malware  gbhackers.com

If Linux is going to thrive, some distros have to die  How-To Geek

RAID Configuration Usage Statistics On Linux Servers 2026  commandlinux.com

Sent out today as a request for comments is a new patch series for Dynamic Housekeeping and Enhanced Isolation (DHEI). DHEI aims to provide run-time adjustments to kernel behavior around CPU isolation for helping with latency-sensitive tasks. The expressed goal is for helping cloud-native orchestrators and high frequency trading platforms dynamically re-partition CPU resources without downtime...

System76 plans for COSMIC include Vulkan, HDR, gaming improvements and more  GamingOnLinux

As of this week Oracle's latest VirtualBox development code begins to work with Linux's native KVM back-end. Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in conjunction with VirtualBox has long been sought and it's finally becoming a reality...

Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend  Phoronix

GTK toolkit developers met in Brussels once again for their annual hackfest during FOSDEM week...

Steam Beta fixes games from large libraries on Linux / SteamOS showing as not valid on current platform  GamingOnLinux

One of the headaches right now when dealing with the Snapdragon X Elite on Linux is that for a majority of the devices you need to fetch firmware files from the Windows 11 on ARM partition as the necessary firmware bits for Linux use aren't upstreamed to linux-firmware.git. That has gradually improved over time from the qcom-firmware-extract making the process easier to more firmware bits eventually being added to linux-firmware.git...

Qualcomm QUPv3 Firmware Upstreamed For Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux Users  Phoronix

Nvidia launches native GeForce NOW app for Linux in beta  Notebookcheck

$199+ M5Stack AI Pyramid Computing Box Linux AI mini PC is based on Axera AX8850 SoC  CNX Software

FreeBSD Finally Wins Over A Linux Veteran  findarticles.com

Elementary OS Crowned My Favorite Linux Distro  findarticles.com

After decades on Linux, FreeBSD finally gave me a reason to switch operating systems  ZDNET

As of 2026, this is my favorite Linux distro of all time - and I've tested them all  ZDNET