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Ubuntu maker Canonical has decided to "double down" their investment in OpenJDK Java for Ubuntu Linux...

Canonical Decides To Double Down On Their Investment In Java For Ubuntu  Phoronix

TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen7 Linux Laptop Now Ships with AMD Ryzen 9 CPUs  9to5Linux

A Microsoft engineer made a Linux distro that's like a comfort blanket to ex-Windows users — I finally tried it, and I'm surprised how good it is  Windows Central

Linux 6.16-rc4 Launches Out With Filesystem, Driver, and Hardware Fixes  gbhackers.com

Gentoo Releases Updated Install Media Based On KDE Plasma 6.3 + Linux 6.12 LTS  Phoronix

The Gentoo Linux project ended the month of June by releasing new install media...

Facing Trouble Opening Maildir in Thunderbird? Here’s the Linux Fix  Vocal

Linus Torvalds hints Bcachefs may get dropped from the Linux kernel  theregister.com

How to use MangoHud for Linux game performance monitoring  GamingOnLinux

The Mesa 25.2 release that will likely be out as stable in August should have nice initial support for the newest NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, namely used by the GeForce RTX 50 series, with the NVK open-source driver for Vulkan usage...

NVIDIA Confirms 580 Linux Driver Is The Last For Maxwell / Pascal / Volta  Phoronix

NVIDIA previously warned CUDA users that CUDA 12.x is the last for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs. NVIDIA overnight now officially confirmed that the Maxwell / Pascal / Volta GPU support is going to end in their Linux driver with the upcoming NVIDIA R580 Linux driver series...

5 common Linux dealbreakers that could ruin your Windows 10 switch  PCWorld

Over the course of last month on Phoronix were 240 original news articles written by your's truly as well as another 24 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. On top of that last month also marked the 21st birthday of Phoronix.com...

The digiKam 8.7 professional photo management software has been released for this KDE/Qt-aligned open-source solution for digital photography...

Linux Community Wins as Fedora Cancels 32-Bit Removal Plan  It's FOSS News

7 things every Linux beginner should know before downloading their first distro  ZDNET

Linux Sudo chroot Vulnerability Enables Hackers to Elevate Privileges to Root  CyberSecurityNews

Linux Sudo chroot Vulnerability Enables Hackers to Elevate Privileges to Root  CyberSecurityNews