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Valve’s Promise Comes True With SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview: Offers Support To Non-Steam Deck Handhelds And Plasma 6 For Linux Desktop-Like Experience  Wccftech

15 Useless Linux Commands Everyone Needs to Know  How-To Geek

E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends  TechSpot

The much anticipated GNOME 48 is releasing this coming week as a big step forward for this popular Linux desktop environment. In addition there are a lot of other interesting projects continuing in tandem around GNOME. This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue to highlight some of these most recent GNOME-related changes...

7 Criminally-Underrated Linux Apps I Can't Live Without  How-To Geek

It's been a while since having any news to share on ReactOS as the open-source operating system working to re-implement the Microsoft Windows APIs/ABIs for enjoying Windows apps/games and drivers on this platform. Today though they are celebrating a new milestone of being able to boot with the Windows audio stack...

The Linux 6.14 stable kernel is likely to be released in just over one week and thus leading to Bcachefs file-system developers racing to track down a new bug that's been reported by a user on upgrading to the new kernel...

Android's Linux Terminal app adds tabs so you can multitask more easily  Android Authority

I installed Linux on a mini laptop, and it brought me back to the Netbook's golden days  ZDNet

OpenRazer 3.10.1 Adds Support For A Few More Razer Devices On Linux  Phoronix

OpenRazer 3.10 released last month with support for new Razer devices and a wealth of other enhancements for these open-source, community-developed Razer kernel drivers for Linux. Out today is OpenRazer 3.10.1 with some fixes as well as supporting a few more Razer products...

Here's How I Control My Linux Computer From My iPhone  How-To Geek

The KDE-aligned digiKam photo management software is out today with its version 8.6 release. With digiKam 8.6 the open-source photo manager has been working on better enhancing its artificial intelligence (AI) integration...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekend update to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have been merged over the past week...

Huawei MateBook D 16 Linux is on sale, cheaper than Windows edition  HC Newsroom

AMD almost nailed Linux support with the Radeon RX 90 series — excluding FSR 4  XDA Developers

Intel engineers today released Compute Runtime 25.09.32961.5 as their newest update to this open-source compute stack for Windows and Linux systems providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero GPU compute support. Most notable in this release is rolling out initial "pre-release" support for next-gen Core Ultra "Panther Lake" SoCs with integrated Xe3 graphics...

Building a Mini Pi5 Cyberdeck Running Kali Linux #piday  Adafruit Blog

Additional AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver updates were sent out today for collecting ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window. As we are late in the cycle, most of the new AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver changes are fixes, but there are some minor feature changes particularly for the new RDNA4 GPUs...

Radeon RX 9070 Fan Speed Reporting & Other Last Minute AMD Changes For Linux 6.15  Phoronix