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Red Hat Inks Linux Tie-Up with Rakuten Mobile, Rakuten Symphony at MWC  The Fast Mode

The Redox OS open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language is continuing to enjoy nice progress in 2025 on its goals. The Redox OS project has published their February 2025 status update that highlights achievements made over the past month...

MakuluLinux LinDoz 2025 Brings AI Frontier to Desktop Computing  LinuxInsider

Plex Is Ending Support for This Once-Popular NAS Brand  How-To Geek

Meet ArcoPlasma, the Linux distro for control freaks  ZDNet

This is the best Linux email client I've found - and I've tested them all  ZDNet

SiFive recently sent over their new HiFive Premier P550 developer board and as part of that fresh RISC-V CPU testing I've also been re-testing the prior SiFive HiFive Unmatched developer board from 2020~2021 for reference. Out of curiosity, I've carried out some tests using the HiFive Unmatched to look at how the Ubuntu Linus RISC-V performance has evolved from Ubuntu 21.04 when I first tested that RISC-V quad-core developer board, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and now the latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS packages.

6 upgrades SteamOS needs to dethrone Windows  XDA Developers

Godot 4.4 is out as stable today for serving as the newest feature release to this leading open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D game engine...

Godot 4.4 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Many Improvements  Phoronix

Ahead of the GNOME 48 stable release due out later this month, tagged now is the Mutter "48.rc" release candidate milestone. While the feature freeze passed last month, there has been a lot of last minute improvements merged for Mutter to squeeze into this GNOME 48 release...

How to change your default gateway on Linux - and get back online fast  ZDNet

Mozilla Firefox 136.0 release binaries are now available online ahead of tomorrow's official release announcement. Particularly on the Linux side, Firefox 136 is one of the more exciting updates in recent times...

Firefox 136 Available With AMD GPU Linux Video Acceleration, AArch64 Linux Binaries  Phoronix

Mozilla Firefox 136 Is Out with Vertical Tabs and Official ARM64 Linux Binaries  9to5Linux

How The Ubuntu Linux Performance Has Evolved For SiFive RISC-V Over The Last Four Years  Phoronix

I've tested every Linux email client - and this is the one to beat  ZDNet

AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation "INVLPGB" Support Appears Ready For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Back in December Linux kernel patches were posted by a Meta engineer for making use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction found with Zen 3 and newer processors. The Linux kernel would use INVLPGB for invalidating TLB entries for a range of pages with broadcast. After these patches went through 14 rounds of review since December, it looks like this AMD broadcast TLB invalidation support is now ready for the mainline Linux kernel!..

Raspberry Pi has been on a spree lately with many new product launches such as the Raspberry Pi 500, Raspberry Pi Monitor, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, and Compute Module 5 in the past few months. Today the company announced an expansion of their offerings in the Compute Module 4 line-up...