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All of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel...

New Lenovo Fan Driver, More ASUS Motherboards With Sensor Monitoring For Linux 7.1  Phoronix

"An even better computing experience": This Linux alternative to Windows 11 is stealing Microsoft's users  Windows Central

Gamers will choose Linux in large numbers in 2026  Root-Nation.com

Proton 11 Beta arrives to bring enhanced gaming compatibility to Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

Linux Foundation Networking takes over Open RAN software group set up with O-RAN Alliance  Telecompaper

Russian Baikal CPUs Are Losing Their Place in the Linux Kernel  It's FOSS

Linux Statistics By Market Size,Users And Facts (2026)  Bayelsa Watch

Federal Age Verification Bill Targets Every U.S. Operating System as Open-Source Linux Fights Back  SOFX

Tux Manager is the perfect Linux Task Manager replacement for Windows refugees  XDA

Linux Foundation Networking Welcomes O-RAN Software Community in Major Open RAN Integration Move  The Fast Mode

Why Linux Is Finally Gaining Momentum Among Gamers  Gizchina.com

Making today very exciting in Linux 7.1 merge window land was a pull request being sent out for introducing the new, modern NTFS file-system driver. Linus Torvalds has yet to comment if he's going to merge the new driver but it looks like it's ready for providing a better Linux NTFS experience over the current NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed by Paragon Software a few years ago and hasn't seen too much feature progress...

Steam's Proton Gets Wine 11 Gaming Performance Improvements, Valve Launches Arm64 Compatibility Layer  TechPowerUp

A2A Solidifies Cross-Vendor Agent Interoperability  Let's Data Science

Proton 11 Enters Beta Testing with Support for Breath of Fire IV, Unknown Faces  9to5Linux

Valve and CodeWeavers have just released Proton 11.0 Beta as their first beta milestone for this software that powers Steam Play now rebased against upstream Wine 11.0...

Proton 11.0 Beta Released With More Games Playable On Steam Play  Phoronix

The extensible scheduler "sched_ext" code for allowing Linux scheduling behavior to be defined via BPF programs is seeing some useful improvements with the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel...

CIQ RLC Pro: NIST-Certified Post-Quantum Linux  Quantum Zeitgeist