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Windows Server vs Linux: Expert 2025 Comparison  Cybernews

WinBoat is a new Linux app to run Windows apps with "seamless integration"  GamingOnLinux

Now that FFmpeg 8.0 has shipped for this widely-used multimedia library, development is back on of major feature work toward the next major release. Landing on Monday was the initial code for a major rewrite to the swscale code in providing a new framework that is faster and more maintainable/extensible moving forward...

Crusader Kings III celebrates 5 years with some interesting stats  GamingOnLinux

Last month Intel posted new Linux patches for a "SoC power slider" feature premiering with upcoming Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptops. That SoC Power Slider support for the Intel int340x is now expected to be upstreamed with the Linux 6.18 kernel later this year...

Intel Power Slider Support For Panther Lake Set To Premier In Linux 6.18  Phoronix

Steam Survey for August 2025 is out and here's the Linux / SteamOS details  GamingOnLinux

To help in accelerating the development of kernel graphics drivers and any other NPU/accelerator drivers written in the Rust programming language, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem is creating its own DRM-Rust development tree for drivers and associated Rust infrastructure...

Linux's Current & Future Rust Graphics Drivers Getting Their Own Development Tree  Phoronix

A familiar desktop without Microsoft's stringent bureaucracies — Windows Look, Linux Freedom  Windows Central

45Drives Launches Free Setup Wizard to Demystify Linux Storage  HackerNoon

This new Linux desktop is almost a dead ringer for OS X  ZDNET

How DevOps Teams Are Redefining Reliability with NixOS and OSTree-Powered Linux  Linux Journal

Pi Network's Linux Move and ETP Launch Signal a Strategic Shift Toward Mainstream Adoption  AInvest

The post How to Install Zip and Unzip in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Zip is a command-line utility tool used for compressing files and folders. Compression of files & folders enables faster and

The post How to Install Zip and Unzip in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux App Release Roundup (August 2025)  OMG! Ubuntu

WinApps could put an end to using full Windows on my PC (with some work)  xda-developers.com

For the Steam Survey results published last month for July it showed Steam on Linux use approaching 3%. With hitting 2.89% in July there was hope that perhaps in August it would breach the elusive 3.0% threshold not seen since the original days of Steam on Linux when the overall Steam user base was also much smaller than it is today. But that didn't pan out and Steam on Linux numbers for August are showing a small dip...

Steam On Linux Use Recedes Slightly During August  Phoronix

Digital sovereignty is not a new topic, but recent events on the world stage have catapulted it to the top of the top of boardroom agendas and government priorities alike. According to a 2025 BARC study, 84% of surveyed companies view data sovereignty as a central point of their strategy, and 70 percent report significantly increased relevance in the past one to two years. Meanwhile, industry analyst firm Gartner forecasts the sovereign cloud IaaS market will be worth $169 billion in 2028, up from $37 billion last year.Different countries and organisations are adopting different approaches to