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Asus ROG Xbox Ally X: YouTuber installs Bazzite Linux to recreate a SteamOS-like experience, but it may not be a good idea  Notebookcheck

AYANEO 3 Modular Handheld Console Prepares For Better Linux Support With New Driver  Phoronix

At the start of the calendar year there was a proposal for a new GCC front-end for the Algol 68 programming language. GCC developers deferred merging Algol 68 support into GCC for this rarely talked about vintage programming language. But as talked about back at the GNU Tools Cauldron 2025, the developer is still working on the support. Sure enough, this week brought a new version of this GCC front-end...

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list one month ago were patches for a multi-kernel architecture design to allow multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on the same single physical machine. This could let some CPU cores be running real-time "RT" kernels or other non-traditional uses between CPU cores. It wasn't clear how far the multi-kernel patches would get especially with some initial negative views toward it and Bytedance separately proposing "Parker" for multi-kernel usage just days later. In any event, today a second version of the multi-kernel Linux patches were posted...

Multi-Kernel Architecture Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 is out as the newest weekly test release of FreeBSD working its way toward a stable release in early December...

Windows 10 Support Ends: Users Switch to Linux Like Zorin OS  WebProNews

Back during the Linux 6.18 merge window Linus Torvalds commented on "mindless and completely crazy Rust format checking" and that the RUst format checking "is all bass-ackwards garbage" with condensing multi-line import statements into single lines. Merged minutes ago to Linux Git ahead of tomorrow's Linux 6.18-rc2 are fixes to the Rust format checking and updated guidelines to address Torvalds' criticism...

New Code Merged For Linux 6.18 To Address Linus Torvalds' Rust Formatting Critique  Phoronix

I discovered this one Linux feature and it makes Windows look embarrassing  XDA

Why I run a headless Linux VM just to track my smart devices’ bad behavior  XDA

Since Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite last month, Linux patches for the X2 Elite "Glymur" platform have begun flowing. Among the recent Linux patches for the Snapdragon X2 is this past week seeing initial display support...

Linux Display Driver Patches Posted For The Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite  Phoronix

OK153-S: New single-board computer with Linux features both ARM and RISC-V processors  Notebookcheck

For those evaluating new options for high performance, cross-platform graphics and/or compute for simulations and other purposes, Tellusim Technologies has made their Tellusim Core SDK publicly available via GitHub...

4 Reasons Doom Emacs Should Be Your Next Programming Project  How-To Geek

A few days back we reported on a Meta engineer uncovering an architectural issue with RDSEED usage on AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" CPUs. It ended up being found to affect more CPU models than originally anticipated and a new patch posted to the Linux kernel mailing list would disable RDSEED usage across all AMD Zen 5 processors...

Updated Linux Patch Would Disable RDSEED For All AMD Zen 5 CPUs  Phoronix

Building off yesterday's release of Wine 10.17 is now wine-Staging 10.17 that is carrying 295 extra patches atop the upstream Wine codebase for testing at the leading edge of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux...

LACT 0.8.2 is out this weekend as the newest feature release to this Linux GPU control application. This Rust-based software provides a GUI for controlling AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel GPUs under Linux with various monitoring metrics, information reporting, power configuration, thermals configuration, and overclocking with supported hardware...