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THRASHER is thoroughly weird and it's out now as the follow up to THUMPER  GamingOnLinux

This Linux distro turned my spare PC into a personal cloud powerhouse - for free  ZDNET

Last week when delivering some CachyOS benchmarks against Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 on the Framework Desktop with AMD Ryzen AI Max+, a few Phoronix readers wrote in with the question or belief that openSUSE Tumbleweed would better perform against CachyOS given the distribution's select x86_64-v3 packages and other advantages. As it's been a while since running any benchmarks of the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed, here are those benchmarks now in the mix for seeing how the performance compares.

Firefox 145 release binaries are now available. Most notable with this release is what's not there: the 32-bit Linux builds are no more...

Firefox 145 Binaries Available - Aside From 32-bit Linux Being Removed  Phoronix

Why you should ditch tutorials for real problems  How-To Geek

Newly Submitted Linux Patches To Make AMDGPU The Default Driver For GCN 1.1 GPUs  Wccftech

Firefox 145 Is Now Available for Download, Drops 32-Bit Support on Linux  9to5Linux

Linux Mint to get an upgraded System Information tool and a spruced up system menu  GamingOnLinux

The popular Easy Effects app swaps from GTK over to Qt, QML and Kirigami with a big new release  GamingOnLinux

It's time to de-duplicate the desktops  theregister.com

Whenever seeing Linux kernel mailing list patches from Google engineer Eric Biggers it tends to be about performance optimizations to the Linux kernel's cryptography subsystem. That was once again the case on Sunday with the newest patch series providing some nice gains...

POLYVAL Work Bringing More Performance Gains To Linux Crypto Subsystem  Phoronix

Tecent engineers have been working on addressing long-standing inefficiencies within the Linux kernel scheduler code around over-subscribed virtualized environments...

Tencent Proposes Semantics-Aware vCPU Scheduling For Over-Subscribed KVM Linux VMs  Phoronix

Fish 4.2 is now available as the latest version of this popular shell on Linux, macOS, and other systems...

While LoongArch 64-bit is already part of the GCC compiler for the past several years, LoongArch 32-bit is now being proposed for the GNU Compiler Collection...

Hackers bypass Windows defences by installing Linux  Fudzilla.com

Hackers bypass Windows defences by installing Linux  Fudzilla.com

Must-Have Kali Linux Tools for Cybersecurity Specialists in 2026  vocal.media