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Got an old PC? Omega Linux can make it feel new again - here's how  ZDNET

I finally ditched Ubuntu for a "niche" Linux distro—and I'm not going back  How-To Geek

Linux 7.0 Shows Off Nice Performance Gains For Databases In Small AMD EPYC Servers  Phoronix

Last week with my ongoing testing of the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel I found nice performance improvements for PostgreSQL and other workloads when testing on a 128-core AMD EPYC 9755 "Turin" server. Curious if those wins were due to optimizations focused on better scalability with today's "big" servers, I also ran some comparison Linux 7.0 benchmarks on the smaller AMD EPYC 4005 class servers too. Some nice wins carried over...

Stay productive on any distro: 6 portable Linux apps I always keep on me  How-To Geek

Sad News! AI's RAM Hunger Finds a New Victim in the Orange Pi Neo Linux Handheld  It's FOSS

This Linux tool was the last thing I needed to wave goodbye to Windows  PC Gamer

Work is underway by 9elements on porting Coreboot plus AMD openSIL to the first-generation Ryzen 7000 series Framework 16 laptop and is expected to be followed by a similar port to the Framework 13 Gen1 laptop too...

Linux Foundation OCUDU Foundation establishes 6G Open Source RAN standardization with AI native software systems  Technetbook

NVIDIA hiring Linux gaming engineers for 2026 push | tbreak  Tbreak UAE

8 Linux commands so good, they feel like cheating  How-To Geek

Zlib-rs as the Rust programming language implementation of Zlib from the Trifetca Tech Foundation is out with a shiny new release (actually, releases) today...

Forget the standard terminal—Kitty is the most powerful tool in my workflow  How-To Geek

Canonical Declares That 2026 Is the Year of Ubuntu Linux on the RISC-V Desktop, Server, and More  Hackster.io

Upcoming California law to require operating systems to check your age  GamingOnLinux

More ASUS Desktop Motherboards Will Support Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.1  Phoronix

ASUS desktop motherboards have been seeing broader sensor monitoring support on Linux in recent years. ASUS motherboards for Intel and AMD processors have been seeing more support added thanks to the open-source community with new additions to the likes of the ASUS-EC-Sensors driver and other hardware monitoring (HWMON) driver code. This is continuing for Linux 7.1...

Armbian 26.02 Released: New Boards, Powered By Linux 6.18 LTS & RISC-V Xfce Desktop  Phoronix

Armbian 26.02 has been released released for this Debian-derived Linux distribution primarily focused on supporting a range of Arm and RISC-V platforms. With Armbian 26.02 there is yet more new boards added while moving to the Linux 6.18 LTS kernel and also adding a RISC-V Xfce desktop install option...

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 200 Is Out with Linux 6.18 LTS, IPFire Domain Blocklist  9to5Linux