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Linux Will Require More RAM Than Windows For The First Time | Source Code #11 [3ae65e]  Fathom Journal

How to rescue an old laptop by installing Linux on it  Popular Science

Linux Users Surpass 5% Representation on Steam  extremetech.com

Red Hat rolls out 14-year RHEL life cycle subscription  SDxCentral

PacHub finally lets you manage pacman and the AUR on Arch without touching the terminal  XDA

Over the past year the FreeBSD project has been making much progress on making it more viable to run this BSD operating system on laptop hardware. They have worked on better graphics driver support, improved power management / suspend, making sure audio is working, and even rolling out a KDE desktop option from the FreeBSD OS installer to ease the deployment on desktops. While that engineering work continues, they are also working now to make it easier to summarize laptop hardware working or not on FreeBSD...

A small but convenient feature is coming with the Linux 7.1 that will be useful in debugging AMD Zen system problems and information reporting/transparency purposes...

A Small But Useful Debugging Addition For AMD Zen Systems With Linux 7.1  Phoronix

Ventoy celebrates its 6th birthday by fixing a nasty immutable Linux bug  XDA

Even in 2026, Linux Is Still Adding Support for Sega Dreamcast’s GD-ROM from the '90s  itsfoss.com

Red Hat Enhances Enterprise Stability with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle, Premium  webwire.com

I tried Peppermint Linux: How this bare-bones distro lets you build your ideal OS  ZDNET

How much RAM does Linux really need in 2026? My sweet spot after decades of use  ZDNET

The end of Linux i486 support looks nigh  theregister.com

I tested Fedora Miracle: Why Linux needs a 'broken' flag for orphaned spins  ZDNET

This distro nobody talks about is more popular than Ubuntu and Fedora—here's 3 reasons why  How-To Geek

For the better part of the past year NetBSD developers have been preparing for the NetBSD 11.0 release and in February NetBSD 11.0-RC1 released followed by 11.0-RC2 and now a third release candidate was announced today...

Following Friday's release of Wine 11.6 with reviving the Android driver and improving game mod support as part of DLL loader updates, Wine-Staging 11.6 is out today with extra patches atop...

Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux devices  Adafruit

The Linux Kernel is Finally Letting Go of i486 CPU Support  itsfoss.com