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Ubuntu installations on WSL 2 are now better than ever and don't require the Microsoft Store  Windows Central

With the recent GNU Binutils 2.44 release, one of the changes is worth calling out in its own article: the GNU Gold linker is now officially deprecated and is now being segregated to its own extra Binutils package but risks being removed all together without new developer volunteers stepping up to maintain this linker...

Red Hat engineer and PipeWire lead developer Wim Taymans presented at FOSDEM 2025 last weekend around the state of the PipeWire project for this integral component to the modern Linux desktop...

PipeWire Is Doing An Excellent Job Handling Audio/Video Streams On The Linux Desktop  Phoronix

Agent P waxes lyrical about 14 years of systemd  The Register

Agent P waxes lyrical about 14 years of systemd  The Register

Ubuntu’s charm-fading  Fudzilla

Tails 6.12 Anonymous OS Fixes Security Issues in Tor Circuits, Persistent Storage  9to5Linux

Portal 2 gets a compatibility update for Linux  GamingOnLinux

Running Ubuntu on Windows 11 is easier than ever  Techzine Europe

Left 4 Dead 2 gets a compatibility update for Linux  GamingOnLinux

Ubuntu is Now Available on New Windows Subsystem for Linux Distribution Architecture  CybersecurityNews

Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) now enables easy enterprise deployment  Neowin

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Ubuntu Officially Available on the Updated Windows Subsystem for Linux  GBHackers

Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust Introduces New Initiatives  CoinTrust

Someone got Linux running inside a PDF file, because its users are something else  MSN

The modern Intel "Xe" Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver as the clean successor to the i915 driver has been an experimental option for Tigerlake and newer but only for Xe2 graphics (Lunar Lake / Battlemage) and newer is it used by default. But Google at least for their Chromebook use-cases is entertaining the idea of switching over to the Xe driver rather than the long-used i915 kernel driver for Alder Lake era hardware...

Google Interested In The Modern Intel Xe Linux Kernel Driver On Alder Lake  Phoronix

Linux Foundation Energy releases SEAPATH version 1.0  IT Brief Australia