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/C O R R E C T I O N -- The Linux Foundation/  StreetInsider

5 operating systems that prove the PC world has more than Windows, macOS, and Linux  MakeUseOf

I finally learned Linux after 5 years of distro-hopping, and all it took was building a NAS  How-To Geek

Microsoft continues its big Linux push at Build 2026  ZDNET

In addition to Intel adjusting their Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids targets in GCC this week to deal with APX realities, AMD this week also adjusted some tuning bits for their Zen 6 "znver6" target...

GCC Git Enables Additional Tuning For AMD Zen 6  Phoronix

Tails 7.8.1 Emergency Release Fixes Serious Linux Kernel Flaw  Linuxiac

Linux Foundation launches Tokenomics Foundation to standardize AI infrastructure spending  SDxCentral

The stable release of systemd 261 is quickly approaching for being found in H2'2026 Linux distributions...

systemd 261-rc3 Released With Individual Binaries Now Embedding dlopen ELF Metadata Note  Phoronix

Tails 7.8.1 Is Out as an Emergency Release to Fix Serious Security Vulnerabilities  9to5Linux

Linux promised freedom, but the command line demands something harder in return  How-To Geek

KDE Gear 26.04.2 Released with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps  9to5Linux

AMD Submits Its Long-Awaited HDMI 2.1 FRL Support For Linux 7.2 AMDGPU  Phoronix

It's happening! The long-awaited HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for handling higher resolutions and higher refresh rates on modern AMD Radeon graphics cards with the upstream AMDGPU open-source driver has been submitted to DRM-Next ahead of this month's Linux 7.2 merge window!..

While not as well known as the likes of the Godot or O3DE open-source game engines, Crown Engine continues advancing as an open-source, C++-based game engine...

Crown Engine 0.63 Restores Its OpenGL Renderer For Legacy Hardware Support  Phoronix

The LLVM project will begin offering Zstd-compressed archives of their binaries in addition to the existing XZ-compressed releases. LLVM developers are finding Zstd working out great with "significantly reduced" download sizes...

I upgraded to Fedora 44 and one change made it immediately worth it  MakeUseOf

Steam Survey For May 2026 After Delay: Linux Just Under 4%  Phoronix