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Systemd 258 Released: New Tools, Security Upgrades, and Linux Enhancements  WebProNews

Denmark’s Strategic Leap Replacing Microsoft Office 365 with LibreOffice for Digital Independence  Linux Journal

Modding-friendly arcade racer Formula Legends is out now - works well on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

One of the exciting elements of Intel's Xeon 6 Granite Rapids launch last year was introducing support for MRDIMMs alongside DDR5-6400 memory support. After the Xeon 6900P series debut I posted some of the first independent DDR5-6400 vs. MRDIMM-8800 benchmarks. One year later, today is a fresh look at the DDR5-6400 vs. MRDIMM-8800 performance for Granite Rapids with new/updated benchmarks, the latest Linux software improvements, and also looking at the impact on power and thermals of MRDIMM memory.

GNOME 49 Is Finally Out: Here's What's New  How-To Geek

Rust 1.90 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language...

Rust 1.90 Released With LLD Default On Linux x86_64 While macOS x86_64 Demoted  Phoronix

Python 3.14-rc3 is out today as the final test preview ahead of next month's official Python 3.14 stable release...

Linux fd Command: 10 Terminal File Search Methods  How-To Geek

How to install Hollow Knight: Silksong mods on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA is making a $5 billion investment into Intel and the two companies will work together on custom data center and client CPUs...

Microsoft’s “programmed obsolescence” meets resistance — Back Market plans to save 400 million Windows 10 PCs  Windows Central

Following the recent release of Linux Mint 22.2 as the Linux Mint project's premiere operating system currently built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, today marks the beta release of Linux Mint Debian Edition 7...

Linux Mint Releases LMDE 7 Beta  Phoronix

The Fedora Forge has been soft-launched for Fedora contributors to help modernize the development and collaboration tools around the Linux distribution...

A new round of platform-drivers-x86 "fixes" were submitted today for the nearly-complete Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. While on the fixes stage of the kernel, the x86 platform driver changes can be interesting when it comes to new device IDs for enabling new products late in the kernel cycle...

Linux 6.17 AMD PMF Driver Adding New ACPI ID For Upcoming AMD Platform  Phoronix

One of the new SoCs to be supported by the upstream Linux 6.18 kernel is the Microchip LAN969x...

Tails 7.0 Anonymous Linux OS Released, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”  9to5Linux

How and why Linux has thrived after three decades in Kernelland  theregister.com