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I Installed KDE Plasma on Ubuntu (And Quickly Regretted It)  How-To Geek

I used North Korea's leaked Linux distribution, and it still has secrets a decade later  XDA

Denmark is switching to Linux  Yahoo

Denmark is switching to Linux  PC Gamer

8 Linux Desktop Distributions to Try  The New Stack

SolydXK: An Impressive Linux Distribution Under the Radar  The New Stack

Ahead of the all-important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cycle, Canonical is looking to raise the required RISC-V ISA baseline for its Ubuntu 25.10 release due out later this year...

This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue that outlines some UI progress made as well as addressing an aging GNOME bug that could result in not all files/directories being properly removed when emptying the Trash from the GNOME desktop...

Yes, I run Android apps on my Raspberry Pi; here’s how  XDA

XLibre 25.0 was just released as the first tagged release of this recent X.Org Server fork...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly blog post summarizing all of the interesting KDE Plasma developments for the past week. Notable this week was the debut of Plasma 6.4 stable and from early user feedback appears to be in good shape...

If Your Kernel Development Is A Little Rusty  Hackaday

Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen10 ships with Linux but pricing may deter many buyers  TechRadar

Prometei Botnet Targets Linux Servers for Cryptocurrency Mining Operations  GBHackers News

A number of AMD firmware/microcode updates were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository, including introducing the AMD Instinct MI350 series files that are necessary for the open-source Linux compute driver stack to function for those newly-announced Instinct accelerators...

AMD Instinct MI350X Series Microcode Upstreamed - Other AMD GPUs See Updates Too  Phoronix

Going back to January of 2023 there were the initial Intel patches for the Linux kernel introducing Linear Address Space Separation (LASS). Two and a half years later, these Intel LASS patches remain in-development with today the sixth iteration of these patches having been posted...

Intel Continues Working On Linear Address Space Separation "LASS" For Linux  Phoronix

I found a file-transferring app that works between Android and Linux - and it's free to use  ZDNET

Over the past week a number of Apple device support additions have been queued up into the HID subsystem's "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel cycle...