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3 handy Linux apps to try this weekend (February 20 - 22)  How-To Geek

While we are on the horizon of seeing PCI Express 6.0 devices, there are already early Linux kernel patches beginning to surface for PCI Express 7.0...

Linux Begins Seeing Early Preparations For PCIe 7.0  Phoronix

RetroDECK for Linux & Steam Deck to remove Nintendo Switch emulation "forever" in face of DMCA strikes  PC Guide

Linux 7.0 Brings Apple Type-C PHY, Snapdragon X2 & Rockchip HDMI 2.1 FRL Additions  Phoronix

Ahead of the Linux 7.0 merge window ending this weekend, the PHY updates were merged this week for this next major kernel release. There are some notable PHY additions particularly for Apple Silicon USB Type-C support as well as additions for Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 laptop SoCs...

Xubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) Wallpaper Contest Is Open for Submissions  9to5Linux

Blender 5.1 Beta Enables Hardware Ray-Tracing by Default for AMD GPUs  9to5Linux

It's now easier to install MGSHDFix for Metal Gear games on Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Canonical engineer Utkarsh Gupta announced today on the behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team that the Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" has entered its feature freeze...

Ubuntu 26.04 Begins Its Feature Freeze  Phoronix

Cloud Hypervisor 51 is now available for this Rust-based VMM focused on secure cloud computing. For what began as an Intel open-source project years ago is continuing to be largely led by Microsoft, Cyberus Tech, Tencent, Ant Group, and others...

Last year LunarG announced KosmicKrisp as a new Vulkan implementation atop Apple's Metal API. Initially targeting macOS, KosmicKrisp since was merged to Mesa and has evolved quite nicely as a modern implementation of Vulkan-on-Metal for Apple Silicon. It continues moving ahead with an eye for iOS, more performance optimizations, and completing Vulkan 1.4 support...

All of the Thunderbolt/USB driver changes were merged this week for the nearly-over Linux 7.0 merge window...

USB Driver For Google Tensor SoCs, UCSI Thunderbolt Alt Mode In Linux 7.0  Phoronix

MediaTek MT7902 wireless chipset finally gets Linux drivers  CNX Software

Experts Reveal Best Linux Server Distros For Home Labs  findarticles.com

I found the best Linux server distros for your home lab  ZDNET

Vulkan 1.4.344 is out today as the latest routine spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API. Besides a handful of fixes and clarifications, Vulkan 1.4.344 brings a new extension courtesy of Valve engineers...

In the AI industry, we’ve spent the last 3 years obsessed with scale. We’ve chased parameter counts into the trillions, believing that "bigger" was the only path to "smarter." But as the dust settles, a new reality is emerging for the enterprise—size is not the metric that matters, delivering reliable, deterministic outcomes is.At Red Hat, we’ve always believed that the most powerful technologies are those that are distributed, open, and fit-for-purpose. Small language models (SLMs) represent that exact shift. The distinction between SLMs and large language models (LLMs) is less import