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System76 this morning announced the 2025 version of their Meerkat mini Linux PC. This new mini PC designed for Linux pairs an Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" SoC with dual 2.5G Ethernet and booting using Coreboot for a intriguing combination whether it's for a lightweight Linux desktop PC or a small office/home server...

System76's New Linux Mini PC Pairs Intel Meteor Lake + Dual 2.5G Ethernet + Coreboot  Phoronix

7 features Windows needs to steal from Linux  XDA Developers

System76 Meerkat mini PC, upgraded with Intel Core Ultra, is perfect for Linux, Windows 11, and Plex servers  BetaNews

Earlier this month the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB was announced for finally pushing the Raspberry Pi single board computers beyond an 8GB limit for RAM. This opens up the Raspberry Pi 5 to new use-cases, more multi-tasking, and other applications where 8GB of RAM / 2GB per core was a bottleneck. In my tests thus far of the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB it's been working out well and helping the performance of some workloads by reducing the memory pressure / swapping.

In addition to sending out the char/misc pull request that completed work on the NTSYNC driver, Greg Kroah-Hartman yesterday also sent out the USB/Thunderbolt pull request for Linux 6.14. The USB/Thunderbolt updates include new hardware support, Chrome OS improvements, and other changes...

Automox Launches Real-Time Linux CVE Data to Outpace NVD Delays  The Manila Times

Automox Launches Real-Time Linux CVE Data to Outpace NVD Delays  GlobeNewswire

Facebook bans Linux posts, community rebels, saying they've been treated like malware  GIGAZINE（ギガジン）

The open-source WavPack lossless audio compression format is out with a new release today for this BSD-licensed software around this audio code container...

Google Chrome high-risk alert issued: CERT-In issues warning for Windows, Mac, and Linux users  India TV News

Facebook is blocking Linux topics and channels with no apparent reason  TechRadar

Meta blocked Distrowatch links on Facebook while running Linux servers  The Register

Facebook calls Linux «a cybersecurity threat» and bans people who mention the OS  ITC

By modifying just 30 lines of Linux code, data center power consumption can be reduced by up to 30%, which will be reflected in Linux 6.13  GIGAZINE（ギガジン）

Following a call by Intel developers last month for making the SPIR-V back-end an official target within LLVM as a promotion to its existing "experimental" backend status, the change has now been made ahead of the upcoming LLVM 20 release...

Last week saw the new Bcachefs features and Btrfs changes land along with XFS real-time improvements for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel while overnight the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) changes were merged for that other exciting and actively-advancing open-source file-system...

The Z3fold allocator for compressed pages was quietly deprecated several months ago with users encouraged to use zsmalloc instead. With no one vocally objecting, the Z3fold allocator code is now being positioned for removal from the Linux kernel source tree...

Z3fold Allocator Slated For Removal From The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Building off last week's release of Wine 10.0, Hangover 10.0 is now available as this adaptation for running Windows games and applications on ARM64 Linux and other non-x86_64 CPU architectures...