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Tuxedo Cancels Its Linux Laptop Project Using Snapdragon X Elite After Performance Issues  eTeknix

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 23rd, 2025  9to5Linux

Linux 6.18-rc7 Released With Late Hardware Improvements  Phoronix

Linux 6.18-rc7 just arrived in the Git tree as the newest weekly test build leading up to Linux 6.18 stable hopefully debuting next Sunday, 30 November...

Why a portable Linux install is my favorite troubleshooting tool  How-To Geek

Wayland Protocols 1.46 released this evening with new experimental protocols for text improvements as well as refinements to the color management protocol for HDR...

No, Linux won’t run on every laptop — check these before you buy  MakeUseOf

NVIDIA has a number of Linux kernel patches on the way to the Linux 6.19 kernel in preparing for 1.6 Tb/s networking on NVIDIA-Mellanox hardware...

NVIDIA Preps 1.6Tb/s Networking For Linux 6.19  Phoronix

Zorin OS’s Million-Download Surge: Windows 10’s End Ignites Linux Exodus  WebProNews

I installed Bazzite on my PC, and it has me reconsidering Windows  XDA

Linux Community Restores Audio on Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10  WebProNews

AWS engineers have been working on Linux kernel improvements to KVM's VMX code for enhancing the unamanged guest memory when dealing with nested virtual machines. The improved code addresses some correctness issues as well as delivering wild performance improvements within a synthetic benchmark...

Merged this week to the GNU C Library "glibc" code is dropping the ldbl-96 FMA implementation from this library as in doing so they found a 4x improvement to throughput and latency on AMD Zen 3 hardware...

Back in 2022 was the surprising decision by Google that they were going to deprecate JPEG-XL image support in Chrome. By the end of 2022 they went ahead and removed JPEG-XL support from Chrome/Chromium to the frustration of many web developers and end-users interested in this image format. Now though as we get ready to roll into 2026, Google engineers are looking at bringing back JPEG-XL support to the Chrome web browser...

My favorite Linux desktop environment is getting a brilliant new screen-recording trick  XDA

Tuxedo suspends Linux laptop plans with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC  Notebookcheck

Joining Ada, C/C++, COBOL, D, Fortran, Go, Modula-2, Objective-C/Objective-C++ and Rust is now another programming language expected to be added for the GCC 16 compiler release due out in the new year...

This is the Linux distro I recommend to every Windows user  How-To Geek

An interesting anecdote from this week's batch of RISC-V fixes for the Linux 6.18 kernel exposed that the MIPS RISC-V/JEDEC vendor ID was wrong for code merged at the start of the kernel cycle. The testing hadn't caught it either as the QEMU emulation also ended up inadvertently using the wrong vendor ID too...