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Steam Deck 2 Rumors Ignite a New Era for Linux Gaming  Linux Journal

This self-hosted dashboard is perfect for monitoring your Linux servers  XDA

AI May Be the Lead Singer, But You Still Need the Band  solutionsreview.com

The Rust project announced today the release of Rust 1.91 as the latest update to this popular programming language priding itself on memory safety capabilities...

Uno Q takes Arduino computing to new Linux level  Electronics Weekly

AMD ROCm 7.1 Released: Many Instinct MI350 Series Improvements, Better Performance  Phoronix

As expected after noting this morning that ROCm 7.1 release preparations were underway, ROCm 7.1 is now officially released as the newest step-forward for this open-source GPU compute stack for Radeon and Instinct hardware...

This week marks fifteen months since AMD Strix Point laptops began shipping. Back at the end of July 2024 the Linux performance and support was already in good shape while since then the Linux performance has only evolved even more to make these AMD Zen 5 laptops perform even better. Here is a fresh look at how the performance has evolved since launch day and the added gains when moving to the recently released Ubuntu 25.10 and some performance advantages too if moving to the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel.

AMD Strix Point Performance Continues Evolving Nicely With Ubuntu 25.10  Phoronix

The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) that goes hand-in-hand with the Fwupd open-source firmware updating utility celebrated the milestone on Wednesday of crossing 135 million firmware updates...

LVFS + Fwupd Serve Up More Than 135 Million Firmware Downloads For Linux Users  Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6.5 arrives followed very closely by a bug-fix  theregister.com

Android or Linux: the big platform question ahead  findarticles.com

LibreOffice 25.2.7 Is Out as the Last Update in the Series, Upgrade to LibreOffice 25.8  9to5Linux

AMD Linux engineers continue to be quite busy working on enabling next-generation Zen 6 processors that will begin shipping next year. The newest patch working its way to the Linux kernel is expanding the range of Zen 6 CPU models detected by the kernel...

New Linux Patch Expands The Range Of AMD Zen 6 CPU Models  Phoronix

Qt Creator 18 is now available as the latest version of this Qt/C++-focused integrated development environment...

Canonical CEO says no to IPO in current volatile market  theregister.com

Valve fix some games on Linux / Steam Deck having incorrect Steam Play settings and added a chat warning  GamingOnLinux

Now's the Best Time to Ditch Windows and Mac for Linux  How-To Geek