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Linux block maintainer Jens Axboe queued up a patch this week to drop the pktcdvd driver from the mainline kernel, which is expected to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle. The pktcdvd driver has been in the kernel for over two decades since the Linux 2.6 days for packet-writing CD/DVD support albeit is hardly useful in today's world...

Linux 6.17 Looks To Drop The pktcdvd Packet Writing CD/DVD Driver  Phoronix

openSUSE Is Deciding Whether To End 32-bit ARM Support  Phoronix

The openSUSE project is currently contemplating if it's time to end support for 32-bit ARM devices...

Peter Hutterer of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of libinput 1.29, the newest version of this input handling library used across both X.Org and Wayland environments with the modern Linux desktop...

libinput 1.29 Improving Scroll Wheel Responsiveness For Most Devices  Phoronix

The Linux Foundation Announces Keynote Speakers for Open Source Summit India 2025  PR Newswire

The Linux Foundation Announces Keynote Speakers for Open Source Summit India 2025  PR Newswire

New Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Business Developers is available for free  BetaNews

The mini PC I recommend for Linux users is on sale for $799 during Prime Day  ZDNet

Red Hat launches free RHEL for business development  Techzine Global

FOSS Weekly #25.28: Xfce Customization, CoMaps, Disk Space Clean-up, Deprecated Commands and More  It's FOSS

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Wayback began recently as an experimental X11 compatibility layer for non-Wayland desktop environments to leverage Wayland components. While still in early form, the project has already taken off from being a personal GitHub project to now being hosted on FreeDesktop.org alongside other projects such as Wayland and the X.Org Server itself plus other prominent software like Mesa and GStreamer and much more...

Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org  Phoronix

I replaced my Linux system with this Windows mini PC - and it's on sale for $191  ZDNET

5 must-have VMs I run on Proxmox  XDA

A big merge today to Mesa Git ahead of next week's Mesa 25.2 code branching is removing the pre-DMA-BUF winsys support and as part of that clearing out all of the old DRI2 driver support...

5 Ways I Fight Linux’s App Gap and Use All the Software I Need  How-To Geek

This Linux distro makes openSUSE accessible to all - even newbies should take a look  ZDNet