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Armbian 25.8.1 is now available as a significant update over the Armbian 25.5 release for this Debian-based Linux distribution focused on offering broad support for ARM64 and RISC-V single board computers as well as other devices...

Armbian 25.8.1 Brings Expanded Board Support, Linux 6.16 Option For Many Boards  Phoronix

Released overnight in beta form is OBS Studio 32.0, the next feature release for this widely-used, open-source and cross-platform application for desktop streaming/recording...

Pi Network's Linux Node and Protocol 23: A Battle for Decentralized Trust  AInvest

How to Install Linux on Windows for Dual Booting or Avoiding Windows 11  Guiding Tech

China’s KylinOS Linux takes a great leap forward to v11 and kernel 6.6  theregister.com

Pi Network (PI) Launches Linux Nodes and Upgrades Protocol 23, What are the Benefits?  Pintu

4 tricks to make migrating from Windows to Linux so much easier  xda-developers.com

OBS Studio 32.0 Enters Public Beta Testing with a Basic Plugin Manager  9to5Linux

Earlier this week I provided benchmarks looking at the Linux 5.15 LTS through Linux 6.17 Git kernel performance using the latest stable and development kernels compared to the Long Term Support (LTS) kernels over the past four years. For having hardware support back to Linux 5.15 I was using an AMD EPYC Milan-X server. In those benchmarks there were some nice gains and even from Linux 6.16 to 6.17 Git was around a 3% geo mean improvement. So I was curious to run some benchmarks on the latest-generation AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors to see if there was similar uplift there...

Linux 6.17 Showing Off Some Nice Gains For 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" Performance  Phoronix

The engineers over at iXsystems announced today the beta release of TrueNAS 25.10 "Goldeneye" as the latest iteration of this formerly BSD-based OS that has transitioned to making use of the Linux kernel while unifying both the TrueNAS CORE and SCALE offerings...

TrueNAS 25.10 Beta Brings Installation Improvements, NVIDIA Blackwell Support  Phoronix

4 reasons Q4OS is the best operating system to breathe some new life into your old laptop  xda-developers.com

You don't need to wait for SteamOS to ditch Windows: I've been running Linux for the past 2 months and the revolution is already here  PC Gamer

Pi Network Drops Linux Node: Is Pi Coin Landing On Coinbase?  DailyCoin

First Look at KDE’s Initial System Setup (KISS) Tool in KDE Plasma 6.5  9to5Linux

While the Asahi Linux project has faced some setbacks, such as most recently with Alyssa Rosenzweig leaving the project and still working to bring-up M3/M4 support, the upstreaming effort by Asahi Linux developers to get their changes to the upstream Linux kernel continues...

Apple M2 Pro / Max / Ultra Device Trees Under Review For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list was the patch series for introducing the AMD ISP4 driver to the mainline kernel. This supports the image signal processor IP that to date is found with HP's Strix Halo powered ZBook Ultra G1a laptop. With time, future AMD Ryzen laptops will also likely be leveraging this ISP technology for offloading more webcamera work from the CPU, but for now the HP ZBook Ultra G1a is the main beneficiary of this open-source driver...