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FOSS Weekly #25.17: Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 Release Follow-ups, Logseq, ZimaBoard and More  It's FOSS

The top 6 GNOME extensions I install first (and what they can do for you)  ZDNet

Linux/Window Engineer – New Grad at Susquehanna International Group  Technical.ly

AMD has published as open-source their "GPU-IOV Module" used for virtualization with Instinct accelerators. It's also reported on their roadmap for bringing virtualization support to their client (Radeon) discrete GPUs...

AMD Publishes Open-Source GIM Driver For GPU Virtualization, Radeon "In The Roadmap"  Phoronix

6 Reasons to Try Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)  How-To Geek

OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Rock is now available with the KDE Plasma 6 desktop shipping by default while still offering both Wayland and X11 session options. There is also now an official server edition of OpenMandriva...

OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Brings KDE Plasma 6 By Default, Official Server Edition  Phoronix

How to set up remote desktop access on your Linux computers  ZDNET

Linux 6.15 Lands Fix For "3x Performance Regression" Affecting Nginx & Other Software  Phoronix

The Linux 6.15 kernel has just merged a fix for the big performance regression I spotlighted yesterday on Phoronix with a huge hit to the Nginx HTTPS web server performance that could see a 3x regression from the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel code. It turns out other workloads/applications also were negatively impacted by this regression. While a stumper at first even with the bisected commit, the issue was luckily resolved very quickly.

Mesa 25.1-rc2 is now available for testing as the newest weekly test version of this collection of OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Mesa 25.1 continues working its way toward a stable release in May...

The 4 VPNs I swear by for Linux - and why I trust them  ZDNet

5 cool distros that every Linux expert needs to try out  XDA

Why Installing Linux Is the Perfect Earth Day Activity  How-To Geek

No Linux for old men — ArcoLinux reaches the end of the line  BetaNews

Earlier this month Canonical announced Ubuntu Linux support for the Orange Pi RV2 as a low-cost RISC-V developer board. The Orange Pi RV2 with eight RISC-V cores and 8GB of RAM costs just around $64 USD. The price point and specs were interesting that I ordered one and have been running performance benchmarks on it since for seeing how capable this is as finally an interesting, low-cost and readily available RISC-V board.

Download & Unzip Files Without Leaving the Linux Terminal With These 6 Commands  How-To Geek

OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 brings KDE Plasma 6 and Proton for running Windows games on Linux  BetaNews

AMD Posts Open-Source Linux Patches For Pensando RDMA Driver  Phoronix