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5 most Windows-like Linux distros because old habits die hard  ZDNET

The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS operating system has published their April 2025 status report to outline interesting changes made over the past several weeks to this innovative project...

I use these 5 alternatives to the Adobe suite on my Linux workstation  XDA

Ready to ditch Windows for good? This is the Linux distro I recommend for beginners  ZDNET

I've tested every Linux music player, and this one is my new favorite - here's why  ZDNET

21-Way Intel Core / AMD Ryzen Linux Laptop Comparison On Ubuntu 25.04 Review  Phoronix

As part of fresh re-testing of existing laptops on-hand given the recent release of Ubuntu 25.04 and then also recent Linux reviews of some interesting models like the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Strix Point and the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition, I have been running a lot of Linux laptop benchmarks the past few weeks. I ended up taking things a bit further after those reviews and have now extended it to a 21-way laptop comparison of AMD Ryzen and Intel Core SoCs from the past few generations in looking at their performance on Ubuntu 25.04 across more than 200 benchmarks.

This Windows 11-like Linux distribution is aimed squarely at developers  ZDNET

Linux disk-wiping malware spread via Go modules  SC Media

Longtime Linux kernel developer Ingo Molnar sent out a patch series this morning to enable additional kernel features by default for the Linux default configuration "defconfig" on x86-based kernels. The defconfig improvements aim to reflect modern Linux x86 kernel use with various features commonly being enabled by distribution vendor kernels and related improvements...

New Patches Aim To Modernize The Default Linux x86 Kernel Configuration  Phoronix

This Lenovo mini PC may be the computing system Linux users have been waiting for  ZDNET

Vulkan 1.4.314 is now available as the newest routine spec update for this high performance GPU graphics and compute API. With Vulkan 1.4.314 there are more early preparations toward Vulkan Roadmap 2026 in aiming for a baseline of high-end smartphones, computers, and more for next year...

Merged for Linux 6.15 was IO_uring network zero-copy receive "io_uring zcrx" while now on track for landing in Linux 6.16 is extending it to support passing DMA-BUF buffers...

IO_uring Zero Copy Receive Seeing DMA-BUF Support Slated For Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Introduced last year for Linux 6.13 was lazy preemption "PREEMPT_LAZY" for a preemption model that is similar to full preemption but less eager to preempt normal scheduler tasks to provide some of the performance benefits found with voluntary preemption. After initially being supported for x86_64 and RISC-V, it looks like Linux 6.16 will support lazy preemption on ARM64 (AArch64)...

ARM64 Expected To Support Lazy Preemption "PREEMPT_LAZY" With Linux 6.16  Phoronix

One week ago FFmpeg merged decode support for Samsung's Advanced Professional Video "APV" codec. APV is designed for professional-grade video recording purposes and is a royalty-free video codec geared for prosumers. Now arriving within FFmpeg Git is APV video encode support...

Cardano Joins Linux’s Confidential Computing Consortium  Bitcoinist.com

Huawei unveils MateBook X Pro 2024 Linux Edition notebook  Huawei Central