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EU OS: A European Proposal for a Public Sector Linux Desktop  The New Stack

Initial Linux Gaming/Graphics Performance For The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Review  Phoronix

Earlier this week the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti launched and there were launch-day Linux CUDA/OpenCL compute benchmarks on Phoronix. But for the Linux gaming performance tests we were waiting on a new supported driver release, which happened to be on launch day with the NVIDIA 575.51.02 Linux beta. Now that the gaming-ready Linux driver is available for the GeForce RTX 5060 series, here are some initial benchmarks of the PNY GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB up against other NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards using the newly-released Ubuntu 25.04.

Amazon smart TVs could soon replace Fire OS with Linux-based Vega OS  TechSpot

Witekio Offering Ubuntu Pro for Devices in Partnership with Canonical  Embedded Computing Design

Back in the Linux 6.12 kernel cycle the Intel i915 kernel graphics driver added fan speed reporting support. Finally for the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle that fan speed reporting will also be working with the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver used by default with Intel's latest integrated and discrete graphics processors...

Intel Xe Driver Adds Fan Speed Reporting For Linux 6.16, BMG Instability Being Debugged  Phoronix

Linux Kernel Vulnerability Let Attackers Escalate Privilege - PoC Released  CybersecurityNews

The latest Ubuntu is great news for Linux fans everywhere  Tom's Hardware

Following the GCC 15 code branching after working its way down to zero "P1" regressions of the highest priority, GCC 15.1 Release Candidate 1 is out today for testing...

How to Install and Remove Software in Linux Using the Terminal  How-To Geek

Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ Now Available  WebProNews

With Fedora 42 having released earlier this week, more feature development work and planning around Fedora 43 is heating up. Another one of the early change proposals now filed for Fedora 43 is changing the CMake build system's default generator from Make to Ninja...

The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) with the Fwupd client makes it wonderfully easy to enjoy seamless system UEFI and device/peripheral firmware updates under Linux. LVFS is backed by a growing number of major OEMs/ODMs and serves up millions of firmware files. But they are in need of more financial resources from the biggest hardware vendors...

LVFS/Fwupd Is Hoping To Encourage More Hardware Vendors To Provide Financial Backing  Phoronix

Following this week's updated Intel Graphics Compiler release, a new version of the Intel Compute Runtime was also published in providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero GPU compute support on Windows and Linux systems...

Patches for Linux posted on Thursday by Intel prepare for a new version of Speed Select Technology Turbo Frequency (SST-TF) handling for future processors with more cores...

Tech employees horrified after discovering truth about discarded laptops: 'Should be a crime'  The Cool Down

Need a Linux admin? Ask a hair stylist to introduce you to a worried mother  theregister.com

Experts Uncover New XorDDoS Controller, Infrastructure as Malware Expands to Docker, Linux, IoT  The Hacker News