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The best Linux-based SMB office suites: Nextcloud Office and OnlyOffice  ZDNET

Linus Torvalds, software engineer: “Using AI for this could be a terrible idea”  Diario AS

Life’s not bad on Bazzite.  The Verge

A Huawei engineer sent out a proposed driver for the Linux kernel to enable "cache lockdwon" behavior for HiSilicon ARM64 processors for greater control over the processor's L3 cache usage...

SUSE vision: AI assists Linux infrastructure via voice  Techzine Global

SUSE’s MCP Server tech preview lays foundation for AI-assisted Linux infrastructure  SiliconANGLE

I built my dream developer setup — and it's not on Linux  MakeUseOf

Do You Want To Be An AI Plumber?  EEJournal

This Linux OS has got a million downloads since Windows 10 support ended – should Microsoft start worrying now?  TechRadar

How I finally unlocked Linux’s find command  How-To Geek

For those continuing to make use of the X.Org Server, a new point release is now available in the 21.1 series. While most often X.Org Server stable releases these days are driven by shipping new security fixes, the X.Org Server 21.1.21 release is to fix several regressions introduced for various functional issues...

Intel software engineers continue to be hard at work on LLM-Scaler as their solution for running vLLM on Intel GPUs in a Docker containerized environment. A new beta release of LLM-Scaler built around vLLM was released overnight with support for running more large language models...

Red Hat's leading Linux input expert Peter Hutterer released libinput 1.30 today as the newest update to this input handling library used on both X.Org and Wayland desktops...

libinput 1.30 Released With Support For Writing Plug-Ins In Lua  Phoronix

Fedora-Based Ultramarine 43 Is Now Available with Pinebook Pro Support  9to5Linux

Linux-Based Zorin 18 OS Tops A Million Users After Windows 10 Support Ends — 780K Switch From Windows  Tech4Gamers

How to Manage User Passwords on Linux  TechRepublic

Backup and Restore Your Flatpak Apps & Settings Between Distro Switch and Reinstalls  It's FOSS

With Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) on upcoming Intel processors doubling the number of general purpose registers (GPRs) among other advantages, Intel engineers are beginning to think of possible kernel uses for the extra registers...

Picture this: You're working late to troubleshoot a production issue and an AI assistant suggests a fix in seconds. Problem solved, right? Not quite. While it seems like it should be easy to use AI assistance, where do you start? What's your prompt? How do you find the issue within the system? AI tools and other large language models are transforming our daily workflows, helping with everything from debugging scripts to generating boilerplate code in seconds, but you still have to know how (and when) to use them.This raises a valid question for many IT practitioners—with so much knowledge at