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7 settings I change after installing Ubuntu  How-To Geek

I built a NAS from an old laptop—here's what Linux taught me the hard way  How-To Geek

Linux fans won’t admit it, but Windows wins on these 3 security fronts  How-To Geek

Turris Omnia NG Wired Launches as a Linux-Powered 10Gb Router  Linuxiac

The mdadm utility for managing software RAID on Linux systems is out with a new release that adds new features while addressing some recent boot failure issues that were reported...

mdadm 4.6 Released With Boot Failure Fixes, New Lockless Bitmap  Phoronix

For years Electron apps were notorious for continuing to depend upon X11/XWayland and not jive well with the modern Wayland experience on modern Linux desktops. But for the past several months, Wayland has been well supported out-of-the-box on upstream Electron. An Electron blog post this week outlined the technical work done for achieving good Wayland support...

This Linux filesystem was supposed to change everything—here's the dark reason it failed  How-To Geek

Building off Friday's exciting release of Wine 11.5 with Syscall User Dispatch support, Wine-Staging 11.5 is now available for this experimental/testing build of Wine that at the moment is some 228 patches atop the upstream code...

The Loongson Direct Rendering Manager driver for handling the display controller on LS7A/LS2K SoCs is no longer orphaned with new Loongson engineers stepping up to maintain the code moving forward...

Loongson Linux Display Driver No Longer Orphaned  Phoronix

Open-source developer Derek Clark of Valve's Linux engineering team has been responsible for many improvements for gaming handheld devices. Such as Lenovo Legion improvements for Linux, Ayn gaming handheld improvements, and most recently Linux 7.1 set to introduce the new Lenovo Legion Go HID drivers. With the latest Lenovo Legion driver work wrapped up for Linux 7.1, Derek Clark today posted a set of patches providing a OneXPlayer Configuration HID Driver...

OneXPlayer Configuration HID Driver Posted For Linux By Valve Developer  Phoronix

BenQ’s Display Pilot 2 software now has a Linux version  OMG! Ubuntu

A few days ago Google engineers went public with Sashiko with their agentic AI code review for the Linux kernel. The Google Gemini Pro powered AI code review service is automatically monitoring the Linux kernel mailing list for new patch submissions and has proven useful already. Interest continues to build by upstream Linux kernel stakeholders around Sashiko and the latest addition is now covering the Rust-For-Linux mailing list submissions...

Sashiko Now Providing AI Reviews On Rust Code For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

The MacBook Neo is the Linux desktop killer that no one expected  MakeUseOf

Windows beat Linux by 1.5 times in FPS in the new Monster Hunter Stories 3  GameGPU

antiX 26 Released as Systemd-Free Debian 13 Distro with Five Init Systems  Linuxiac

Keep your browser closed: 5 more tasks that are better in the terminal  How-To Geek