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Fedora 44 Releasing Next Week  Phoronix

LoongArch Improvements Land In Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Merged for the nearly-over Linux 7.1 merge window are a number of enhancements to the LoongArch architecture support for that Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS and RISC-V...

Godot 4.7 reached its beta milestone on Friday for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine...

Godot 4.7 Reaches Beta With HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements & Editor Enhancements  Phoronix

KDE developers continued to land more feature changes for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. It's a busy spring of fixes, optimizations, and shiny new features for Plasma 6.7...

Zorin OS vs. Solus: I tested two great Linux distros for beginners to find out which is best  ZDNET

Linux Kernel Drops AX.25 and Amateur Radio Subsystem Support  Amateur Radio Daily

SUSE Extends Single-Kernel Linux Strategy from Edge to Data Center  EE Times

I can use GNOME without these 5 extensions, but I really don’t want to  MakeUseOf

You can finally tweak Android's Linux Terminal the way you want it  How-To Geek

12-year-old Pack2TheRoot bug lets Linux users gain root privileges  Security Affairs

Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds did it! He merged the pull request to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem and various other old network drivers largely for PCMCIA era network adapters. This was the code suggested for removal given the recent influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports against this dated code that likely has no active upstream users remaining...

AI coding is now a core part of Linux's development, but I'm not worried  XDA

CachyOS is great, but you should also try these 4 other gaming-focused Linux distros  MakeUseOf

Linux enthusiasts swear by these old business laptops (and you should too)  How-To Geek

Framework Laptop 13 Pro is the repairable MacBook Pro killer Linux users have been waiting for  Yahoo Tech

Ready to graduate from Linux Mint? These 3 distros are perfect for intermediate users  How-To Geek

New ‘Pack2TheRoot’ flaw gives hackers root Linux access  BleepingComputer