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Thomas Zimmermann of SUSE sent out today what is anticipated to be the last drm-misc-next feature pull request for DRM-Next that is targeting the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle...

ZynorRAT Exploits Windows and Linux Systems to Gain Remote Access  gbhackers.com

PipeWire 1.4.8 Brings Low Latency to FireWire Devices Using the ALSA Drivers  9to5Linux

KDE Gear 25.08.1 Released with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps  9to5Linux

'Questing Quokka' enters UI freeze as Ubuntu 25.10 nears release  theregister.com

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As a Linux user, you may eventually run into a situation where your root partition (/) runs out of space,

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KDE Revives Custom Linux OS with Alpha Release at Akademy 2025  WebProNews

CIQ to Accelerate AI and HPC Workloads with NVIDIA CUDA  HPCwire

Mesa's Gallium3D video acceleration code has long supported both the VA-API and VDPAU interfaces for video acceleration. VA-API has enjoyed more widespread support among Linux applications and typically more robust while the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) was the interface originally started by NVIDIA for their official Linux driver. As of today, Mesa has now removed support for VDPAU acceleration...

Mesa Drops VDPAU Video Acceleration In Favor Of VA-API  Phoronix

DISA STIG for Amazon Linux 2023 is now available  Amazon Web Services

Don't switch to these 5 Linux distros when you finally leave Windows 10  MakeUseOf

Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced the availability today of Fwupd 2.0.15 as the latest increment to this open-source firmware updating solution built around the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...

FLOSS Weekly Episode 846: Mastering Embedded Linux Programming  Hackaday

Microsoft's Upcoming Windows 11 25H2 Battles Linux In Benchmark Showdown  HotHardware

Fwupd 2.0.15 Adds Support for NVIDIA ConnectX-6, ConnectX-7 and ConnectX-8 NICs  9to5Linux

CIQ to Accelerate AI and HPC Workloads with NVIDIA CUDA  insidehpc.com

Linux Foundation Energy Announces New Members  insidehpc.com

SpecFive Launches the Strike, a Meshtastic-Ready Raspberry Pi CM4 "Handheld Linux Workstation"  Hackster.io

Linus Torvalds recently marked Bcachefs as "externally maintained" and isn't merging any new Bcachefs code for the time being but for now at least is keeping the existing Bcachefs code in-tree for anyone that has been relying on this experimental CoW file-system from prior kernel versions. OpenSUSE announced today though they are resorting to disabling the kernel driver in their Linux 6.17+ builds...