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Linux Has Another Maintainer Now For Its DEC Alpha Port  Phoronix

Recently when Intel contributed Nova Lake support for LLVM/Clang and the GCC compiler support there was not any AVX10 or APX support contrary to rumors and expectations. Intel has now published a new programming reference manual where they now confirm Nova Lake will in fact support AVX10.2 and APX...

Canonical announced today the expansion of the legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro to provide total coverage of Ubuntu LTS releases up to 15 years...

Miracle-WM 0.8 was released on Wednesday as another step forward for this tiling Wayland compositor built atop Canonical's Mir software. Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek continues driving new features into Miracle-WM as it works toward its v1.0 milestone...

Valve’s New Steam Machine Runs on Linux — But Don’t Expect To Play Fortnite, CoD, or Battlefield 6 on It  Tech4Gamers

'Infinity' ... and beyond: MX Linux 25 arrives  theregister.com

Valve’s Linux console takes aim at Microsoft’s gaming empire  TechCentral

MX Linux 25 ‘Infinity’ Arrives: Debian 13 ‘Trixie’ Base, Modern Tools & A Fresh Installer  Linux Journal

SteamVR Beta 2.14.1 Patch: Stability Boosts, AMD Link Fixes, and Linux Memory Leak Resolved  Twisted Voxel

Sprout: Open-source bootloader built for speed and security  Help Net Security

FOSS Weekly #25.46: sudo-rs Issues, Kaspersky on Linux, Flathub Troubles, Homelab Starter and More Linux Stuff  It's FOSS

Two ways to remove a directory in Linux - plus a bonus method for extra security  ZDNET

Back in April PostgreSQL added AVX-512 support for CRC32 computations. At the time the gains for CRC32 computations with this popular open-source database server were reported to be 50% to 3x faster for x86_64 CPUs able to leverage AVX-512. That AVX-512 support is found with PostgreSQL 18.0 that released in September and now Intel is praising this addition to PostgreSQL for which their developers also had a part in along with AWS and others...

Kaspersky Brings Its Antivirus Software to Linux Desktops  OMG! Ubuntu

Kaspersky Brings Its Antivirus Software to Linux Desktops  OMG! Ubuntu

AAC audio: Kdenlive beats DaVinci Resolve (Studio) on Linux... by Allan Tépper - ProVideo Coalition  ProVideo Coalition

At Red Hat, innovation begins with listening. In October 2025, the Red Hat Learning Think Tank forum brought together a group of passionate learners and leaders to listen, learn, and collaborate on Red Hat Learning Subscription and help shape its roadmap. The forum focused on what learners value most from Red Hat Learning Subscription, the challenges they face, and how Red Hat can better support technical skill development at scale. In this article, you’ll hear about the key takeaways from the meeting, next steps, and the importance of providing feedback to better empower current and future

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Linux’s Push to Power Up Multi-Battery Gaming Gear  WebProNews

ARM64’s Atomic Meltdown: Linux 6.18’s Fix for a Hidden Performance Killer  WebProNews