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OpenWRT, But On An Unsupported Router  Hackaday

Linux Mint vs. Ubuntu: How Different Are They, Really?  How-To Geek

AMD Ryzen PCs May See More Power Savings Out-Of-The-Box With Linux 6.14  Phoronix

AMD Ryzen systems with the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel may see increased power savings out-of-the-box due to an AMD P-State driver change queued up as part of the new power management code for this next version of the Linux kernel...

It was on New Year's Eve 2019 that Edward Shishkin announced the Reiser5 file-system as an evolution of the out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system code. While next week would mark five years of Reiser5, the Reiser4/Reiser5 file-system still appears effectively dead and hasn't been touched in quite a while...

FOSS Weekly #24.52: Holiday Special Tuxmas Days  It's FOSS

Queued up by way of linux-fs.git's "for_next" Git branch is the fanotify HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) implementation via the pre-content fanotify patch series...

An interesting request for comments (RFC) patch series was posted on Christmas for introducing hash-based integrity checking to help with the reproducible builds initiative around the Linux kernel...

9 Major Annoyances With Linux That Look Like a Thing of the Past in 2025  It's FOSS

There's activity again around potentially disabling and then ultimately removing the RNDIS Linux kernel code for those drivers complying with the Microsoft Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) protocol specification. RNDIS was used atop USB for virtual Ethernet but has proven insecure and problematic...

Linux RNDIS Removal Branch Updated For Disabling Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers  Phoronix

Nobara Linux Takes on Fedora With a Custom KDE Plasma Desktop  The New Stack

What will 2025 bring for Linux PCs?  PCWorld

Systemd had another busy year working on many new features from run0 as a sudo alternative to making systemd-homed more robust, increasing Varlink use, systemd-boot continuing to gain more traction, and more...

BSD: What Is It, and How Is It Different From Linux?  How-To Geek

4MLinux 47.0 brings new features and updates for Christmas  BetaNews

Raspberry Pi IoT In C - gpiod  iProgrammer

A patch series six months in the making and consisting of 24 patches by longtime Intel Linux graphics engineer Ian Romanick was merged on Christmas Eve for Mesa 25.0...

Ruby 3.4 is out today as yet another annual major feature release for this programming language known for its major updates on Christmas Day...

How to install and use Microsoft's PowerShell on Linux (and why you should)  ZDNet