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The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system project just published their June 2025 status report to outline recent progress on this innovative platform...

How AI Helps Maintain the Linux Kernel  StartupNews.fyi

How AI Helps Maintain the Linux Kernel  The New Stack

Sent in today for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle as part of the input subsystem fixes is enabling support for the Acer Nitro Gaming Controller (NGR200)...

Acer Nitro Gaming Controller"NGR200" To Be Supported By Linux 6.16  Phoronix

These Are the Best Linux Distros to Install on a Mini PC  How-To Geek

Intel Enables Wildcat Lake Display & Experimental Flip Queue For Linux 6.17 Graphics  Phoronix

Intel today sent out a batch of new kernel graphics/display driver code for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening in a few weeks. There is now DRM Panic support for the Intel i915 and Xe kernel drivers, Wildcat Lake "WCL" display enablement, and experimental flip queue support for Lunar Lake and Panther Lake hardware, among other changes coming for the Intel drivers in Linux 6.17...

The Debian project is hoping to address challenges of mentoring newcomers to contribute to the Debian Linux distribution as well as making it more known that open-source contributors can do more than just work on Debian packaging but that help is needed for documentation writing, web page creation, sorting out licensing issues, finding project sponsors, and more. Debian is also looking to attain OpenAI sponsorship or open-source funds from other large language model (LLM) / AI providers to help Debian developers for those wanting to use AI to help accelerate their Debian workflows...

The first release candidate of Redis 8.2 is now available for testing of this popular in-memory key-value database. Redis 8.2 is building off the recent Redis 8.0 release that ended up going tri-licensing with the AGPLv3 stemming from developer/community feedback...

Three years since the Bash 5.2 release and one year since the first alpha release, GNU Bash 5.3 was released overnight as the newest step forward for this popular shell used on Linux and other operating systems...

Bash 5.3 Released With Many Improvements  Phoronix

Critical Sudo Vulnerabilities Let Local Users Gain Root Access on Linux, Impacting Major Distros  The Hacker News

System76 Meerkat Linux mini PC gets Raptor Lake or Arrow Lake upgrade up to Intel Core Ultra 7 255H processor  CNX Software

System76 Meerkat Linux mini PC gets Raptor Lake or Arrow Lake upgrade up to Intel Core Ultra 7 255H processor  CNX Software

Perl 5.42 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language that comes one year after the prior Perl 5.40 release...

System76 Meerkat mini Linux PC now available with up to Intel Core Ultra 7 255H Arrow Lake  Liliputing

A proposal raised for Fedora 43 would end support for allowing UEFI installations on MBR-partitioned disks for x86_64 systems in the Anaconda installer. This would enforce a requirement on using GPT partition tables for all UEFI-based Fedora installations in the x86 world...

The Finals Guarantees Linux Functionality Despite New Kernel Level Anti-Cheat  DualShockers

5 Reasons Xfce Is My Favorite Linux Desktop  How-To Geek