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How Questing Quokka (25.10) Ushers a New Era of Rust-Based Tools  Linux Journal

Published last November as part of Vulkan 1.3.302 was the VK_KHR_video_encode_av1 extension for adding AV1 video encoding to the Vulkan Video API. Ahead of next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release, the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged its AV1 encode support...

Mir 2.21 is out today for this Ubuntu/Canonical project to serve as a set of libraries used to simplify the development of Wayland-based shells/environments...

Building off the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10.0) just over one month ago, Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle Linux 10.0...

Can this $200 Windows mini PC replace my Linux system for a week? Here's the verdict  ZDNET

Following this week's release of Firefox 140, Firefox 141 was promoted to beta. Most exciting for Linux users with next month's Firefox 141 release is finally lowering system RAM use! I've been running some benchmarks looking at the impact.

Firefox 141 Beta Lowering RAM Use On Linux But Still Benchmarking Behind Chrome  Phoronix

Firefox 141 Beta Lowering RAM Use On Linux But Still Benchmarking Behind Chrome  Phoronix

Last month Canonical announced plans for releasing monthly Ubuntu Linux development snapshots and was followed by the Questing Snapshot 1 release in the road toward Ubuntu 25.10. Out today is the Questing Snapshot 2 release for incorporating the latest Ubuntu 25.10 development changes...

Hone Your Linux Skills With These 6 Free Games  How-To Geek

Kali Linux gets a major upgrade with more than 10 new hacking tools, plus VPN IP extension, great for ethical hackers and pentest pros  MSN

Fedora Linux ponders dropping 32-bit packages — could force Bazzite to shut down, according to its creator  Tom's Hardware

As a follow-up to the article a few weeks ago about AMD enabling User CPUID Faulting support for Linux, that code looks like it's ready to go for being introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel...

AMD CPUID Faulting Support Looks To Be Coming For Linux 6.17  Phoronix

Bochs DRM Panic Support, Panfrost Adds Mediatek MT8370 SoC For Linux 6.17  Phoronix

Maxime Ripard at Red Hat sent out the latest weekly pull of "drm-misc-next" changes to DRM-Next for queuing of these kernel graphics/display driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening up in about one month's time...

The upcoming Blender 5.0 3D modeling software application is introducing High Dynamic Range (HDR) display support on Linux when making use of Wayland -- no X11 support for HDR -- and Vulkan graphics accelerator...

Blender 5.0 Introducing HDR Support On Linux With Vulkan + Wayland  Phoronix

This free Linux distro is the easiest way to revive your old computer. How it works  ZDNET

8 things to know when switching from Windows to Linux  TechTarget