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HarfBuzz 11.3 released on Sunday as the newest release of this open-source text shaping engine. HarfBuzz 11.3 brings some nice performance improvements for this text shaping engine that is used by many prominent software programs and toolkits like Google Chrome, Firefox, GNOME / GTK, KDE / Qt, LibreOffice, OpenJDK, Godot, and many closed-source programs too like Adobe Photoshop and others...

The Mozilla Firefox 141.0 release binaries are out today for this monthly update to this cross-platform, open-source web browser...

Firefox 141 Release Brings Lower RAM Usage On Linux  Phoronix

GeForce Infinity is a new app for GeForce NOW on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Intel kills off Clear Linux in cost-cutting purge  Fudzilla.com

Steam Beta upgrades the in-game performance monitor for Linux  GamingOnLinux

Intel shuts down its high-performance "Clear Linux" distribution  OC3D

According to one source Linux hits over 6% desktop user share  GamingOnLinux

AI Retro Console with n8n, LLM and Linux  Hackster.io

I Made Kitty Terminal Even More Awesome by Using These 15 Customization Tips and Tweaks  It's FOSS

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If you’ve ever tried to set up HTTPS locally for development, you’ve probably run into a wall of complexity. Generating

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 20th, 2025  9to5Linux

The seventh weekly release candidate of Linux 6.16 is now availablr for testing with the stable release debuting hopefully next Sunday otherwise the following week...

Linux 6.16-rc7 Released: "I Think We're In Good Shape"  Phoronix

5 reasons why BlueStar is the most beautiful Linux distro I have tried yet  xda-developers.com

Linux 6.16-rc7 Bringing Fix For Possible Bogus/Miscalculated Load Averages  Phoronix

Among the fixes merged today ahead of Linus Torvalds releasing the Linux 6.16-rc7 test kernel release is a lone patch on the "sched/urgent" side to fix possible bogus load average values. Reported system load averages within the kernel's scheduler code could potentially be off going back to May of 2021...

4 cool operating systems that have nothing to do with Windows, macOS, or Linux  xda-developers.com

Linux is the best thing to happen to PC gaming in years  xda-developers.com

NVIDIA announced this week that they are bringing their CUDA software to RISC-V processors...