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While typically the stable Linux kernel would come after the -rc7 release a week prior, for Linux 6.19 the release is being dragged out by an extra week not due to any scary bugs but rather due to the holiday downtime at the end of the year. As such Linux 6.19-rc8 is out today with the stable v6.19 release expected next Sunday...

Linux 6.19-rc8 Released Ahead Of Linux 6.19 Stable Next Week  Phoronix

5 things you can do on Linux but not on Windows  How-To Geek

After 34 years the Linux kernel finalizes a backup plan for leadership  TechRadar

Resources 1.10 can now monitor AMD NPU usage on Linux  OMG! Ubuntu

This is the one Linux distro I recommend to every Windows 11 user  MakeUseOf

Samuel Thibault offered up a status update on the current state of GNU/Hurd from a presentation in Brussels at FOSDEM 2026. Thibault has previously shared updates on GNU Hurd from the annual FOSDEM event while this year's was a bit more optimistic thanks to recent driver progress and more software now successfully building for Hurd...

GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building  Phoronix

Liya Linux proves high performance doesn’t require a command line  The New Stack

European Open Source Awards 2026 Honor Linux Kernel Maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman  Linuxiac

Stop treating your daily driver Linux PC like a science experiment  How-To Geek

GNOME Resources 1.10 was christened today as the newest version of this modern system monitoring app for the GNOME desktop that is now used by default on the likes of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. With GNOME Resources 1.10 they have added AMD Ryzen AI NPU monitoring support and other new capabilities...

Linux has a price, it's just not money  How-To Geek

I’ve tested dozens of Linux distros, and these 3 are the only ones I’d put on a laptop  How-To Geek

The b4 tool used by Linux kernel developers to help manage their patch workflow around contributions to the Linux kernel has been seeing work on a text user interface to help with AI agent assisted code reviews. This weekend it successfully was dog feeding with b4 review TUI reviewing patches on the b4 tool itself...

Linux's b4 Kernel Development Tool Now Dog-Feeding Its AI Agent Code Review Helper  Phoronix

A new BSD distribution I only learned about for the first time this weekend is smolBSD, a project built atop the netbsd-MICROVM kernel coming with NetBSD 11 for providing insanely fast booting micro-VMs intended for micro-services and similar environments...

Upstreamed for the Linux 6.19 kernel is the Uniwill laptop platform driver for exposing more features/settings for laptops made by this Taiwanese OEM/ODM, including the laptops from TUXEDO Computers. Coming for the next kernel cycle is further extending the Uniwill platform driver for now having support for adjusting the custom total graphics power "cTGP" for those laptops with a dedicated GPU...

cTGP Graphics Power Setting Coming For Uniwill / TUXEDO Laptops With Linux 7.0  Phoronix

During the last month on Phoronix were 296 original news articles from the Linux/open-source perspective as well as another 18 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews, written by your's truly. Here is a look back at the most popular news and reviews in the Linux world over the past month...