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As part of the various end-of-year annual benchmarking comparisons and the like on Phoronix, today is a look at how the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H "Meteor Lake" performance has evolved under Ubuntu Linux in the two years since launching. Plus with next-gen Intel Panther Lake laptops expected to be showcased next week at CES, it's a good time for revisiting the Meteor Lake performance to see the difference two years have made for Intel Meteor Lake laptops on Linux.

Intel Meteor Lake On Linux Two Years Post-Launch: 93% The Original Performance  Phoronix

Puppy Linux vs. Linux Lite: Which distro is right for your old Windows 10 PC?  ZDNET

What exactly is Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu?  How-To Geek

Ahead of the January 2026 ISO refresh for Arch Linux, Archinstall 3.0.15 released today as the newest update to this convenient text-based OS installer...

Arch Linux Installer Adds CUPS, rEFInd Boot, IWD, COSMIC & Power Management Options  Phoronix

This fully atomic Linux distro is a challenge to install but a treat to use  ZDNET

Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 3.0.15 Adds Support for the rEFInd Boot Manager  9to5Linux

A New Year's Eve pull request is ready with several Intel/AMD laptop improvements for the ongoing Linux 6.19 kernel cycle. An x86 platform drivers pull request sent to Linus Torvalds today brings several notable driver enhancements with expanding the range of supported laptops...

Linux 6.19 Closing Out 2025 With Several Laptop Additions  Phoronix

It’s Time To Make A Major Change To D-Bus On Linux  Hackaday

It’s Time To Make A Major Change To D-Bus On Linux  Hackaday

Linux's contemporary filesystem mount API went without documentation for six years — latest man-page package finally adds content for 2019 code  Tom's Hardware

The GCC compiler and the GNU toolchain ecosystem at large had a great year. From new language front-ends for the likes of Algol 68 and COBOL to maturing support for GCC Rust, new performance optimizations from GCC to Glibc, initial AMD Zen 6 "znver6" support merged for GCC 16, and much more. It's pretty safe to say GCC and the broader GNU ecosystem enjoyed a very successful 2025...

While the Godot Engine receives a lot of attention as a prominent open-source game engine, it's far from the only one in this space. Another open-source game engine capping out 2025 with a new release is the Crown Engine...

Open-Source Crown Game Engine v0.60 Released  Phoronix

OpenCV 4.13 is out this New Year's Eve in providing the latest open-source computer vision (CV) capabilities. OpenCV 4.13 brings a wide variety of enhancements to this widely-used computer vision library...

The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere  theregister.com

This Linux OS looks just like Windows 11, and it got a new update  XDA

These are the Linux Apps I Couldn't Live Without in 2025  It's FOSS