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The Rust-written Redox OS operating system had an exciting end to the year as it began developing its own native Intel graphics driver...

Linux players on Steam reached all-time high in December  How-To Geek

GeForce Now Is Finally Getting A Native Linux App  Ubergizmo

Transparent Hugepage Performance On Linux 6.18 LTS: Madvise vs. Always Review  Phoronix

With some Linux distributions like Fedora Workstation and Ubuntu defaulting to "madvise" Transparent Hugepages (THP) while others like CachyOS and openSUSE defaulting to "always", you may be curious about the madvise vs. always THP difference in modern Linux environments. If so this round of benchmarking is for you in looking at the performance impact of madvise vs. always THP.

Installing GitHub Desktop on Ubuntu Linux (Because I Like it)  It's FOSS

NVIDIA Brings GeForce NOW To Linux And Fire TV With RTX 5080‑Class Cloud Gaming  HotHardware

This is the tiniest Linux distro I've ever seen  How-To Geek

LLVM developers and other stakeholders have begun debating the use of pre-compiled headers "PCH" as a means of speeding up the compiulation of the LLVM compiler infrastructure by 1.5x to 2x than with non-PCH builds...

StarBook Horizon Linux Laptop Now on Sale with 32GB RAM, Wi-Fi 6E, and Coreboot  9to5Linux

Back on the 1st Valve published the Steam Survey results for December 2025 and they put the Linux gaming marketshare at 3.19%, a 0.01% dip from November. But now the December results have been revised with a nice bump to the Linux marketshare...

Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58%  Phoronix

Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high  GamingOnLinux

You’re sleeping on Linux Mint’s most powerful feature: Cinnamon’s built-in gestures  How-To Geek

The 6 Linux distros I expect to rule 2026 - and why  ZDNET

Why I use Qubes: 3 security reasons a normal Linux distro can’t match  How-To Geek

Chinese semiconductor outfit has Linux MPP repository on Github disabled after a DMCA takedown request — FFmpeg team accuses it of using libavcodec code without attribution  Yahoo! Tech

Chinese semiconductor outfit has Linux MPP repository on Github disabled after a DMCA takedown request — FFmpeg team accuses it of using libavcodec code without attribution  Tom's Hardware

Linux at CES 2026: Tux is alive and well in IoT, cars, and AI  ZDNET

Open-source developer Sebastian Wick has written a blog post outlining work to improve the graphics driver situation for Flatpaks. Particularly around situations like the NVIDIA driver stack that may depend upon a specific kernel version or where a Flatpak runtime may be end-of-life, dealing with GPU drivers in Flatpaks can be a burden. A solution being explored is GPU virtualization to deal with those GPU driver handling challenges while still providing robust and secure GPU access...