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Elementary OS 8.1 Switches Over To Wayland Session By Default  Phoronix

NordVPN Releases Open-Source NordLynx Package for OpenWrt Routers  WebProNews

Elementary OS 8.1 is Here  Thurrott.com

elementary OS 8.1 Released with Wayland Session by Default, ARM64 Support  9to5Linux

Five years after releasing Lua 5.4, Lua 5.5 debuted today as the newest version of this lightweight and embeddable scripting language...

The Amiga's filesystem is now on Linux and Mac, thanks to an emulated driver  How-To Geek

Mirantis Joins Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation as Silver Member  Business Wire

AI Startup Quilter Designs Linux Board in One Week with 40 Hours Input  WebProNews

PoC Exploit Released for Use-After-Free Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's POSIX CPU Timers Implementation  CybersecurityNews

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows  theregister.com

For those still using old AMD GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" or GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands" graphics cards, the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel is a wonderful holiday gift. With Linux 6.19, the GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs are now defaulting to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver in place of the legacy "Radeon" DRM driver that has been the default for GCN 1.1/1.0 and other ATI/AMD graphics processors of the past 2+ decades. In this article is a look at the performance benefit of now AMDGPU being the default as well as now enabling RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box.

Linux 6.19's Significant ~30% Performance Boost For Old AMD Radeon GPUs  Phoronix

A new Linux Mint beta is here with improved troubleshooting tools  How-To Geek

This Linux distro makes your old laptop feel like a Mac - and it's free  ZDNet

PoC Exploit Released for Use-After-Free Vulnerability in Linux Kernel POSIX CPU Timers  gbhackers.com

How To Find Get Your IP Address in Linux  commandlinux.com

Linux in DevOps & CI/CD Pipeline Adoption Statistics  commandlinux.com

University researchers presented Rex at this month's Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 in Tokyo. Rex is designed for "safe and usable" Rust-based kernel extensions that could serve in place of eBPF programs for extending the Linux kernel functionality...

Rex: Proposed Safe Rust Kernel Extensions For The Linux Kernel, In Place Of eBPF  Phoronix

The Reg tests out Pop OS 24.04 with 'Epoch 1' of COSMIC  theregister.com