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StratOS Hyprland Redefines Linux Desktop Design  findarticles.com

Queued into tip/tip.git's "sched/urgent" Git branch today is a patch to disable the kernel scheduler's NEXT_BUDDY functionality that was re-implemented back during the Linux 6.19 merge window. It turns out to cause some performance regressions that have yet to be otherwise addressed...

Is SDDM The Best Login Manager for Linux  commandlinux.com

Not An April Fool's Joke, You Can Run Linux and Windows on This Android Smartphone  It's FOSS

This glorious-looking Linux distro is unlike anything I've ever seen in my decades of use  ZDNET

Fraunhofer HHI this week released a new version of VVenC, their open-source H.266 video encoder. Among the changes this release are more performance optimizations for ARM and I have run some comparison benchmarks using a NVIDIA GB10 SoC with the Dell Pro Max GB10...

GNU Guix 1.5 Brings Plasma 6.5, GNOME 46, Rootless Mode, and More  Linuxiac

GPD claim the WIN 5 is getting an official Bazzite Linux adaptation but the Bazzite team say otherwise  GamingOnLinux

In addition to the release today of Vulkan 1.4.340 with the new descriptor heap "VK_EXT_descriptor_heap" extension and three other new extensions, The Khronos Group's Vulkan Working Group has also published the Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone...

Vulkan 1.4.340 released with new extension to improve DirectX performance on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Linux users targeted as crypto-stealing malware hits Snap packages - here's how to stay safe  TechRadar

Nexus Mods say they are committed to supporting Vortex on SteamOS Linux  GamingOnLinux

AMD Ryzen AI Software 1.7 Released For Improved Performance On NPUs, New Model Support  Phoronix

AMD today released a new version of Ryzen AI Software, the user-space packages for Microsoft Windows and Linux for making use of the Ryzen AI NPUs for various AI software tasks like Stable Diffusion, ONNX, and more...

Highguard requires Secure Boot to play, which might not be a popular move  PC Gamer

3 cool Linux apps to try this weekend (January 23 - 25)  Yahoo! Tech

3 cool Linux apps to try this weekend (January 23 - 25)  How-To Geek

GNU Guix 1.5 is out today as the latest major release for this platform built around its functional package manager. This is a big upgrade with it having been three years since the GNU Guix 1.4 release...

GNU Guix 1.5 Released With RISC-V Support, Experimental x86_64 GNU Hurd Kernel  Phoronix

Merged today for the Linux 6.19 Git kernel and then in turn for back-porting to prior Linux kernel series is making the x86 page fault handling code disable interrupts properly. Since 2020 it turns out the handling was subtly wrong but now corrected by Intel...