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Today the review embargo lifts on the Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" SoCs: wow, what an upgrade! I've spent the past week testing out the Framework 13 with the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and it's been terrific. Framework 13's modularity continues to pay off and allows easily upgrading to the new Strix Point bearing motherboard with AMD Zen 5 CPU cores and the Radeon 890M (RDNA 3.5) integrated graphics. If you are on a fresh Linux distribution the support is in great shape and paired with great performance for delivering a great 2025 Linux laptop option.

Ubuntu Linux 25.04 'Plucky Puffin' Is Now Available  How-To Geek

MX Linux 23.6 brings Debian freshness, without the systemd funk  theregister.com

Ubuntu 25.04 Now Available For Download With GNOME 48 + Linux 6.14, Better Performance  Phoronix

Ubuntu 25.04 ISO images are now available for download along with the various flavors of this newest six-month, non-LTS Linux distribution update...

Arch Linux is the latest Linux distribution replacing its Redis packages with the Valkey fork...

Arch Linux Is The Latest Distribution Replacing Redis With Valkey  Phoronix

These 6 Linux apps are the secret sauce to my creative process  ZDNET

Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

How do I prompt for Yes/No/Cancel input in a Linux shell script? | by Harold Finch | Apr, 2025  Medium

You can now use OCCT on Linux-based systems  KitGuru

You can now use OCCT on Linux-based systems  KitGuru

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) code was branched today to the releases/gcc-15 branch and GCC 16.0.0 is now the version on the main development branch...

GNOME 48.1 Desktop Is Out to Improve HDR Support and Fix Various Issues  9to5Linux

Forget Windows 11. These mad lads made Linux look like Windows XP!  PCWorld

In addition to this week's updated Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime, Intel's software engineers also released their new quarterly version of the Intel Media Driver that provides Video Acceleration API (VA-API) support for integrated graphics hardware going back to Broadwell processors and through the next-gen Panther Lake processors...

LXQt 2.2 Desktop Environment Released with Many Wayland Improvements  9to5Linux

LXQt 2.2 was christened today as the newest stable update to this lightweight, open-source Qt desktop environment...

Released on Wednesday was IGC 2.10.8 as the newest update to the Intel Graphics Compiler that is used by their Compute Runtime OpenCL/Level-Zero stack on Windows and Linux as well as being used as their graphics shader compiler under their Windows driver...

Following the recent Plasma 6.3 desktop release, KDE Gear 25.04 is now available for shipping all of the latest and greatest KDE applications...