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The maintainer of the libxml2 project announced he is stepping down from this widely-used open-source library without any replacement maintainer yet determined...

ASRock AI QuickSet brings popular Linux AI tools to Windows  KitGuru

These portable operating systems are so light you don’t even need to install them  MakeUseOf

Canonical to Package and Distribute NVIDIA CUDA within Ubuntu’s Repositories  9to5Linux

ASRock unveils easy way to run Linux-based AI applications on Windows, with limited GPU support  PC Guide

The Performance Cost To Ubuntu WSL2 On Windows 11 25H2  Phoronix

It's been a while since delivering any benchmarks on Phoronix of Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) for running Linux applications and other software under the confines of Windows 11. When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Linux benchmarks I also took the opportunity for seeing how WSL is performing on that leading-edge Windows release compared to running a bare metal Ubuntu Linux installation.

Canonical announced today that they will formally support the NVIDIA CUDA toolkit and also make it available via the Ubuntu repositories...

Canonical Announces Plans To Support NVIDIA CUDA, Easy Installation On Ubuntu  Phoronix

There’s no antivirus to protect you! ModStealer affects Windows, macOS, and Linux.  Red Hot Cyber

Casilda 1.0 is out today as the Wayland compositor widget for the GTK4 toolkit...

Prominent KDE developer Jonathan Riddell who was formerly involved with Kubuntu and then KDE Neon, served for a while on KDE Plasma release management, and other significant contributions over the years announced he's stepping away from the KDE world...

Ubuntu 25.10's transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils. Fortunately there still are a few weeks to go until Ubuntu 25.10 releases as stable and upstream developers are working to address these performance gaps...

Love a challenge? Check out the Humbling Soulslike Bundle of games  GamingOnLinux

DRAGON BALL GEKISHIN SQUADRA works great on Linux PCs and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

ASRock Announces AI QuickSet WSL Run Linux AI Apps on Windows  TechPowerUp

I tried using Linux's AntiX OS on my super old laptop and it works like a charm  xda-developers.com

Linux 6.17-rc6 looks fantastic with a normal release on track  Neowin

Back in late 2023 ASRock announced AI QuickSet to make it easier to get up and running with AI workloads on their hardware under Windows or Linux. Today they announced their second incarnation of that as "AI QuickSet WSL" as making it quicker and easier to setup AMD ROCm under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and streamlining the deployment of various AI Linux software packages under WSL...

ASRock AI Quickset WSL Aims To Make It Easier Running ROCm + AI Linux Apps On Windows  Phoronix