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Linux promises freedom from Windows, but it demands something harder in return  How-To Geek

Steam shown running on Nintendo Switch thanks to latest Proton Beta — FEX 2604 translates x86 to ARM-friendly instructions on Linux  Tom's Hardware

The GCC open-source compiler has landed initial targeting support for Arm's newly-announced AGI CPU...

With the vast majority of x86/x86_64 systems supporting restarting the system using ACPi, BIOS, or even the KBD keyboard controller, with Linux 7.1 is now support in place for using custom restart handlers registered by drivers, such as in place for other CPU architectures...

Linux 7.1 x86/x86_64 Aligns With Other Architectures Now For Supporting Custom Restart Handlers  Phoronix

All of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel...

New Lenovo Fan Driver, More ASUS Motherboards With Sensor Monitoring For Linux 7.1  Phoronix

"An even better computing experience": This Linux alternative to Windows 11 is stealing Microsoft's users  Windows Central

Gamers will choose Linux in large numbers in 2026  Root-Nation.com

Proton 11 Beta arrives to bring enhanced gaming compatibility to Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

Linux Foundation Networking takes over Open RAN software group set up with O-RAN Alliance  Telecompaper

Russian Baikal CPUs Are Losing Their Place in the Linux Kernel  It's FOSS

Linux Statistics By Market Size,Users And Facts (2026)  Bayelsa Watch

Federal Age Verification Bill Targets Every U.S. Operating System as Open-Source Linux Fights Back  SOFX

Tux Manager is the perfect Linux Task Manager replacement for Windows refugees  XDA

Linux Foundation Networking Welcomes O-RAN Software Community in Major Open RAN Integration Move  The Fast Mode

Why Linux Is Finally Gaining Momentum Among Gamers  Gizchina.com

Making today very exciting in Linux 7.1 merge window land was a pull request being sent out for introducing the new, modern NTFS file-system driver. Linus Torvalds has yet to comment if he's going to merge the new driver but it looks like it's ready for providing a better Linux NTFS experience over the current NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed by Paragon Software a few years ago and hasn't seen too much feature progress...

Confidential computing is a complex topic, and often requires a deep understanding of hardware, kernel, and orchestration layers. The generic definition is "protecting data in use," but it's more than that. It's about verifying that the environment we are running has not been tampered with, that we don't need to trust Kubernetes administrators and the platform or even hardware we are running our application on.Confidential computing is a major pillar when it comes to data sovereignty and the Red Hat zero trust security principle. Confidential containers aims to bring this technology at the Kub

At MWC 2026, Telstra announced a major step forward in its journey towards building one of the world’s most advanced autonomous networks in collaboration with Red Hat and other industry partners. Telstra executed a proof-of-concept within a live telecommunication (telco) cloud environment to autonomously detect and resolve an unplanned infrastructure outage by shifting critical network applications to healthy infrastructure in just minutes. The result shows how a multivendor, AI-native architecture can enable self-healing operations at scale. Central to this exciting new capability are the o