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Wine vs. Bottles vs. Proton: Which Is Best for Windows Apps on Linux?  MSN

Nice PDF, But Can It Run Linux ? Yikes!  Hackaday

Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has been working on adding the ability to let systemd boot directly into a disk image downloaded via HTTP within the initial RAM disk (initrd) during the Linux boot process...

Fastfetch 2.36.0 released bringing multiple bug fixes, updated distro names and more  Neowin

Firefox has been shipping their nightly Linux builds the past three months with ForkServer enabled to improve the multi-process browser experience. The results are looking good and Firefox official releases for Linux should soon begin shipping with ForkServer too for this performance win...

Firefox ForkServer Getting Ready To Enhance Linux Browser Performance  Phoronix

Intel's newest open-source project and addition to their AI offerings is... Polite Guard...

Serious about online privacy? This 'live' Linux OS is for you  ZDNet

Seven-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug Opens Door to Remote Code Execution  GBHackers

For those making use of the Intel-powered Apple MacBook Pro laptops featuring the Touch Bar, better support for that interface is slated to land with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle...

Apple Touch Bar Backlight & Keyboard Mode Drivers Slated For Linux 6.15  Phoronix

GIMP 3.0 RC3 is out today as what is hopefully the last release candidate before the long-awaited stable release of GIMP 3.0 as this long in development free software alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop...

Arch Linux-Based EndeavourOS Mercury Lands with Linux Kernel 6.13 and Xfce 4.20  9to5Linux

Merged last week for Python 3.14 is a new tail-call intepreter that aims to offer significantly better performance with around 10% faster performance in PyPerformance or around a 40% speed-up in Python-heavy benchmarks. This tail-call interpeter can even outperform the current Python JIT compiler but for maximum performance benefits Python should be built with Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO)...

KDE/Qt apps can be styled many different ways with Qt widgets, SVG-based styling, Qt Quick, and other routes for styling of applications. That fragmentation of different ways to styling KDE apps can probe problematic for UI designs and lead to a less cohesive user experience. KDE developer Arjen Hiemstra is hoping to change that with the Union project...

Netrunner 25 Shockworm is a stunning KDE Plasma Linux distro and a great Windows 11 alternative  BetaNews

You may recall the YQPkg package management tool announced last year that's been talked up by openSUSE developers as a Qt-based package manager GUI and alternative to YaST. It's now known as Myrlyn and has added repository configuration as its newest feature...

Formerly Known As YQPkg, Myrlyn Package Manager GUI Adds Repository Configuration  Phoronix

CentOS Connect conference announces return of Firefox  The Register

A patch sent out on Sunday by Google engineer Qais Yousef is proposing to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz...