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Zorin OS 18 Beta Released with Refreshed Look, Advanced Window Tiling, and More  9to5Linux

Tor-based Tails Linux 7.0 Has Arrived: Here's What's New  How-To Geek

Ubuntu 25.10 beta comes with the Linux 6.17 kernel and more  Notebookcheck

I've been using Linux for a quarter of a century, so why do I keep coming back to Ubuntu?  Tom's Hardware

PureVPN on Linux Leaks IPv6 Traffic and Tampers with Firewalls  CyberInsider

Linux 6.17 File-System Benchmarks, Including OpenZFS & Bcachefs  Phoronix

Linux 6.17 is an interesting time to carry out fresh file-system benchmarks given that EXT4 has seen some scalability improvements while Bcachefs in the mainline kernel is now in a frozen state. Linux 6.17 is also what's powering Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 out-of-the-box to make such a comparison even more interesting. Today's article is looking at the out-of-the-box performance of EXT4, Btrfs, F2FS, XFS, Bcachefs and then OpenZFS too.

3 Fun and Cool Linux Apps to Install This Weekend (September 19 - 21)  How-To Geek

Intel Battlemage BMG-G31 Spotted In Linux Boot Log; Features 16 GB VRAM Capacity, Hinting At Arc B770  Wccftech

Ubuntu Questing Quokka Beta is Out  Daily Kos

Merged to Mesa Git are new contributor guidelines added to the documentation. This can help new users in submitting patches to Mesa. It also lays out a policy of allowing AI-generated/assisted code but the author submitting the code must be able to understand the code in question and take responsibility for it...

2025 year of Linux? Data suggests unsupported Windows 11 users overwhelmingly choosing one  Neowin

The golden age of real-time strategy returns? Dying Breed releases October 7  GamingOnLinux

Announced last month was the Ubuntu "Dangerous" Desktop Images as a new form of the Ubuntu Linux desktop images that would ship with leading-edge Snaps atop the latest Ubuntu development images... Basically, pulling in the very latest Snaps to go along with the latest Ubuntu development Debian packages...

Here's how I installed Windows 11 using a nano-sized 2.4GB ISO — final install weighed in at a mere 8.36GB, two-thirds the size of a normal Windows install, courtesy of Nano11 Builder  Tom's Hardware

In addition to working on optimizing the performance of Zink for workstation graphics, Mike Blumenkrantz has also been tackling support for OpenGL mesh shaders with this generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan open-source driver...

In addition to AMD posting patches this week working on ACPI C4 power savings support available in some newer AMD systems, patches were separately posted this week for enabling S0ix sleep support within the AMDKFD compute kernel driver...

AMDKFD Compute Driver Sees Patches For S0ix Standby Support  Phoronix

The beta release of KDE's Plasma 6.5 desktop took place on Thursday as they work toward the stable release expected on 21 October...

ChatGPT: More Lipstick than Linux - the unexpected user revolution  openPR.com