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Linux Mint may publish fewer updates a year, but that's not necessarily a bad thing  XDA

How to write Linux bash scripts on your Android - and why you'd want to  ZDNET

The massive set of Linux kernel graphics/display driver Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates were sent out and merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel. This also includes the growing work around accelerator "accel" drivers for AI NPUs and the like...

SSHStalker botnet brute-forces its way onto 7,000 Linux machines  csoonline.com

Tails 7.4.2 Anonymous Linux OS Released to Fix Critical Security Vulnerabilities  9to5Linux

The Linux MultiMediaCard "MMC" subsystem was set to see some new hardware support, optimized support for secure erase/trim on some eMMCs, and a variety of other improvements. But all of the MMC changes are rejected and will be for the duration of the Linux 7.0 cycle due to an apparent lack of testing and vetting via linux-next that led Linus Torvalds to calling it "complete garbage" and "untested crap"...

Linus Torvalds Rejects MMC Changes For Linux 7.0 Cycle: "Complete Garbage"  Phoronix

The InkPad One Takes Aim at Amazon's Kindle Scribe With Open Linux Architecture and a Bold Bet on E-Reader Freedom  WebProNews

Linux Gamers on Radeon Graphics Get Ray Tracing Performance Boost in Mesa 26.0.0 Update  TechPowerUp

Mesa 26.0 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Development Now Experimenting With AI Code Review  Phoronix

Well known open-source Linux graphics driver developer David Airlie of Red Hat, who is the co-maintainer of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display drivers and accelerator "accel" drivers, announced experimental work on AI-drive code/patch review for these open-source kernel drivers...

Longtime Linux users may recall the Sabayon Linux distribution that was Gentoo-based and focused on a nice out-of-the-box experience from the mid 2000s through 2019 before fading away after 2018. Sabayon Linux creator Fabio Erculiani wrote in to Phoronix today to announce he's begun working on a new Linux distribution called matrixOS...

Sabayon Linux Creator Now Developing Gentoo-Based, Immutable matrixOS  Phoronix

Bluefin Linux: ChromeOS simplicity meets Linux power  The New Stack

FLOSS Weekly Episode 864: Work Hard, Save Money, Retire Early  Hackaday

New Proton Experimental update adds controller support to more launchers on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

Mesa 26.0 open-source graphics library for Linux releases, significant imporvmenets to raytraicng on Radeon GPUs  VideoCardz.com

Mesa 26.0 Released With Much Better Radeon Ray-Tracing, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements  Phoronix

Mesa 26.0 was just officially released as this quarter's new feature release for these open-source OpenGL / Gallium3D and Vulkan drivers used commonly on Linux systems and elsewhere like within the confines of Microsoft's WSL...