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T2 Linux SDE 25.4 Released with Latest AMD ROCm for RISCV-64 and ARM64  9to5Linux

After nearly one and a half decades after the packaging request was made, GNOME Shell Frippery extensions have finally worked their way into Debian via the unstable archive for offering a GNOME2-like desktop experience...

For fans of the Arch-based Manjaro Linux distribution, the distribution team announced the public alpha release of Manjaro Summit: a new semi-immutable flavor along similar lines to Fedora Silverblue, Nitrux, Aeryn OS, openSUSE Aeon, and others...

The work talked about back in January for improving the 32-bit PAE Linux kernel code for Physical Address Extensions to better jive with the code around Page Table Isolation (PTI) for mitigating the Meltdown vulnerability could soon be merged...

5 things to do with the Linux terminal on your Android phone - including my favorite  ZDNET

Linux Fu: Stopping A Runaway  Hackaday

These 5 Linux distributions are the worst for beginners  XDA

How to install Ubuntu Server in under 30 minutes  ZDNET

PanVK Open-Source Vulkan Driver for ARM Mali GPUs Is Now Vulkan 1.1 Conformant  9to5Linux

This SteamOS clone is the best Linux distro for gamers  ZDNET

OCCT, the PC Stress Testing Utility, has just arrived on Linux  OC3D

Earlier this month I looked at the AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics with Strix Point between Windows 11 and Ubuntu 25.04 Linux. The testing showed the AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics on the open-source Linux driver up to around 96% the performance of Radeon Software on Windows. The most frequent question that came up from that most recent round of benchmarking was wondering how the Intel Xe2 graphics on Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" now compares between Windows 11 and Linux given that both drivers have been maturing the past several months. Here's the story of the Xe2 graphics between Windows 11 and Ubuntu 25.04 while using a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition laptop.

Intel Lunar Lake On Linux Can Roughly Match Windows 11 Xe2 Graphics - When Not Stuck At 400MHz  Phoronix

Debian 12-based MX Linux 23.6 is the Windows 11 alternative of your dreams  BetaNews

Man bribes girlfriend with cruise vaction to use Linux for a week, relationship somehow survives  Boing Boing

Open Source Security at Risk From Poor Oversight  LinuxInsider

Being worked on for a while now by engineers from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google has been Kexec HandOver "KHO" as a means of allowing some kernel state to be retained when Kexec'ing into a new kernel such as for maintenance/security updates. The KHO patches in recent days were queued up into Andrew Morton's "MM" staging area leading to hope that this work is ready for mainlining with the Linux 6.16 kernel cycle this summer...

A decade after Intel acquired FPGA maker Altera for $16.7 billion and recently working to make Altera an independent company, Intel announced today it has sold 51% of its Altera business in a deal that values that business at $8.75 billion...

Play cards, manage clones, explore unique planets and outsmart aliens in Clonizer  GamingOnLinux

PipeWire 1.4.2 Adds Extra MIDI Checks to Avoid 100% CPU Usage on Older Kernels  9to5Linux