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A First Look At Ubuntu 25.10 Performance On AMD Strix Halo / Framework Desktop  Phoronix

It has been a lot of fun over the past month looking at the performance of AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo powering the Framework Desktop. The newest area being explored is how the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 is looking compared to the current Ubuntu 25.04 release.

Tired of Your Windows? Not Ready to Buy a Mac? Maybe It’s Time to Try Linux.  Popular Mechanics

Wine 10.15 To Feature Initial Support For Using NTSYNC On Linux  Phoronix

With Wine 10.15 expected to be released next Friday there will be initial support for using the NTSYNC driver found within the Linux kernel...

The newest hardware offering from Raspberry Pi announced today is... a 1TB SSD...

Linux Mint 22.2 brings Cinnamon refresh, hardware updates  theregister.com

Linux Mint 22.2 'Zara' makes my favorite distro even better - what's new  ZDNET

Mozilla announced today that they will be ending 32-bit Linux support for the Firefox web browser in 2026...

The upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle will present better support for Xiaomi Redmibook laptops thanks to a WMI driver being queued into the x86 platform drivers "-next" branch for providing better handling of the keyboards found with these laptops...

Xiaomi Redmibook Laptops To See Better Support With Linux 6.18  Phoronix

U.S. CISA adds Sitecore, Android, and Linux flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog  Security Affairs

Microsoft is about to kill Windows 10, and it might yield $7.3 billion  Windows Central

Four Months Have Passed Since The Last AMDVLK Driver Release  Phoronix

Back in May was the surprise but welcoming decision out of AMD that they would begin officially supporting the Mesa Vulkan driver (RADV) and that their proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan drivers would no longer be included in their Radeon Software for Linux releases. This indeed appears to have effectively spelled the end to their AMDVLK driver with Mesa's RADV taking the cake...

Linux Kernel Runtime Guard 1.0 has been released. LKRG is a project providing runtime integrity checking of the Linux kernel and is able to detect security vulnerability exploits against the running kernel...

As of today in Mesa 25.3-devel Git, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems is finally exposing the VK_EXT_shader_object extension...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Finally Exposes VK_EXT_shader_object  Phoronix

As part of the Rust DRM drivers now having their own development tree, sent out today was the first pull request from the drm-rust-fixes branch...

NVIDIA's Open-Source Nova Driver Now Explicitly Requires 64-bit Support  Phoronix