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RADV Driver Lands Another Big Improvement For Early AMD GCN Graphics Cards  Phoronix

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the first issue of This Week in Plasma for 2026. Last week was a warning that This Week in Plasma could become less frequent without new volunteers to help takeover. Nate Graham announced that John Veness has stepped up to help co-author these weekly KDE development posts...

The Aeryn OS Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS has published a 2025 retrospective to recap the project changes over the past year as well as a look ahead to 2026...

Aeryn OS Continuing To Focus On Tooling & Infrastructure In 2026  Phoronix

The 1990s KDE desktop is making a comeback on modern Linux  How-To Geek

Linux updates made “Meteor Lake” slower  Fudzilla.com

Linux updates made “Meteor Lake” slower  Fudzilla.com

A patch is on the way to the Linux kernel and looks like it could be ready for the 6.20~7.0 kernel for addressing out-of-memory "OOM" killer inaccuracy behavior when dealing with large core count systems...

Linux Addressing Out-Of-Memory Killer Inaccuracy On Large Core Count Systems  Phoronix

Kiwix's Windows and Linux app for browsing Wikipedia offline just got a big update  How-To Geek

The Linux laptop I keep coming back to nails performance and portability  ZDNET

Microsoft LLMs Are Speaking, Spreading Misinformation by Slop About Ken Thompson and Unix  LXer: Linux News

Microsoft LLMs Are Speaking, Spreading Misinformation by Slop About Ken Thompson and Unix  LXer: Linux News

A new patch series that was posted this week allow for users to more easily replace the default kernel boot logo. While many of us are long accustomed to seeing the picture of Tux as the kernel boot logo, for those preferring to better customize your console boot experience these patches allow it to be easily manipulated via the kernel configuration "Kconfig" options...

New Linux Patches Allow More Easily Changing The Tux Kernel Boot Logo  Phoronix

D7VK v1.1 is out with experimental Direct3D 6 support via Vulkan for Windows games on Linux  GamingOnLinux

Voxel RPG Hytale Will Have Native Linux Support And It Works On The Steam Deck  Steam Deck HQ

7 alternatives that can replace default Linux CLI tools  How-To Geek

Merged on New Year's Day was a set of 36 patches authored by well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák for refactoring the NIR compilation code for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Native Linux support for Hytale will be launched as "experimental"  GamingOnLinux