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HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 3.25.8 Adds Support for New Printers  9to5Linux

The Wild linker is a very speedy linker written in the Rust programming language that has become quite competitive with the likes of Mold. A patch sent out this weekend adds Wild support for use with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)...

Following prominent Linux x86 platform enabler Hans de Goede leaving Red Hat (as recently noted, he recently joined Qualcomm), there is another prominent Linux kernel engineer that will be departing from Red Hat...

Red Hat Losing Another Longtime & Prominent Linux Kernel Engineer  Phoronix

This Linux distro looks more beautiful than anything Microsoft or Apple ever made  XDA

Karol Herbst at Red Hat who has been a longtime open-source NVIDIA driver contributor as well as Rusticl developer presented at XDC2025 on the NVK Vulkan driver's cooperatrive matrix extension support. It turns out this Vulkan extension for machine learning / AI is proving fairly competitive with the open-source NVK driver compared to NVIDIA's official driver stack...

Year of the (Clandestine) Linux Desktop, topic, and the news – Rob Allen – ESW #433  SC Media

Monitor Your Linux Laptop Battery Health with Wattage  OMG! Ubuntu

Linus Torvalds is out today with the eighth weekly test release of the Linux 6.18 kernel in working toward the stable release at the end of the month...

Linux 6.18-rc6 Released With Fix For ARM64 "Catastrophic Performance Issue"  Phoronix

6 open-source Linux apps I'd use even if they weren't free  How-To Geek

“Just use Linux” isn’t helpful advice anymore  MakeUseOf

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 16th, 2025  9to5Linux

These are the only 3 Linux distros I recommend for gamers  How-To Geek

This Linux tool maps your online footprint in minutes  MakeUseOf

KDE Plasma 6.6: Taming Crash Loops to Save Your RAM and Sanity  WebProNews

Linux Kernel’s AI Code Revolution: Guidelines for the Machine Age  WebProNews

Nautilus Unlocks Vintage Shortcuts: GNOME’s File Manager Catches Up on Copy-Paste  WebProNews

Debian 13.2: Trixie’s Tune-Up Fortifies Linux Stability  WebProNews

Microsoft’s Windows Reckoning: AI Backlash Fuels Linux Exodus  WebProNews