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Linux Desktop Market Share Tops 6%, Poised for 10% by 2030  WebProNews

My 4 favorite image editing apps on Linux - and two are free Photoshop alternatives  ZDNET

Intel Is Reportedly Preparing Arc B380; Adds New Battlemage PCI ID to Linux Kernel  Wccftech

The latest Radeon RADV driver ray-tracing optimization being merged to Mesa 25.3 is support for triangle pair compression with RDNA4 (GFX12) graphics processors...

Battlefield 6 requires Secure Boot to run and it's coming to more games soon, including Call of Duty Black Ops 7: here's what it is, why Linux gamers are mad about it, and how to enable it  PC Gamer

ChatGPT Is the Best Homelab Assistant I Could Ask For  How-To Geek

Tails 7.0 Now Available for Testing, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie” and GNOME 48  9to5Linux

The PCI changes were merged last week for the Linux 6.17 merge window. There is new PCIe controller support and some other additions worth mentioning with the new PCI feature code...

PCIe Improvements With Linux 6.17: Intel Panther Lake, Qualcomm, Sophgo SG2044 & More  Phoronix

Ahead of the upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 release for this widely-used, open-source multimedia library some more last minute features continue to land. Hitting FFmpeg Git today are some Vulkan Video additions...

Following the release of GCC 15.1 at the end of April as the first stable version of the GCC 15 compiler, GCC 15.2 is now available with a variety of bug fixes back-ported...

Frame gen tool for Linux gets up to 4x performance boost with new feature, "mainly" on AMD graphics cards  PC Guide

Windows is losing ground. Linux is growing on corporate desktops, citing increased security.  Red Hot Cyber

[Inside LBS Ⅲ] Dividing and Conquering Linux High-Capacity SSD Support with LBS  Samsung Semiconductor

LACT 0.8.1 Linux GPU Control Panel Improves Voltage/Clock Controls For Older AMD GPUs  Phoronix

LACT 0.8.1 is out with a few important changes for this open-source Linux GPU control application that is written in Rust and rendered using GTK...

Linux for gamers – from nerd niche product to serious contender  igor´sLAB

A Linux terminal app for native Android development? Here's why I'm bullish  ZDNET

MariaDB today announced the general availability "GA" release of the MariaDB Community Server 12.0 release. This first MariaDB 12 release brings many exciting enhancements over MariaDB 11 for this open-source database originally derived from MySQL...

Following the recent Linux kernel patch adding the AMD Zen 6 synthetic feature flag I suspected more AMD Zen 6 kernel patches would begin flowing... Sure enough, two new patches today noting some new model IDs in the Family 1Ah family as well as confirming rumors that next-gen EPYC Venice processors would support 16 channel memory...