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While the ATI Radeon 9000 / X300 / X500 / X600 series "R300" GPU support has long been unmaintained on the Microsoft Windows driver side, thanks to the open-source community the Linux driver support keeps going for the old ATI R300 GPUs with that driver also supporting the X700 / X800 "R400" and X1000 "R500" series graphics cards too. Two more OpenGL extensions are now wired up for the old R300 Gallium3D driver within Mesa...

Open-Source R300 Driver Adds New OpenGL Extensions For Two Decade Old Radeon GPUs  Phoronix

APT36 Hackers Attacking Indian BOSS Linux Systems With Weaponized .desktop Shortcut Files  CyberSecurityNews

Valve celebrates the 7th anniversary of Proton, its tool that revolutionized gaming on Linux  Instant Gaming News

TuxCare’s In-Memory CVE Scanner Enhances Linux Security With Radar  LinuxInsider

3 Reasons Why Linux Made Me a Better Developer  How-To Geek

Mir 2.22 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical project providing libraries for building Wayland-based shells/compositors. Mir 2.22 brings some notable improvements around NVIDIA GPU/driver support as well as initial preparations for Rust programming language support...

How this former security guard landed as a senior consultant at Red Hat after graduating from Yellow Tail Tech  Technical.ly

AMD and IBM announced a joint collaboration today around quantum-centric supercomputing. IBM's quantum computing expertise is to be paired with AMD's AI and HPC technology like their Instinct accelerators to help accelerate quantum-centric supercomputing...

Linux's classic initial RAM disk "initrd" support might finally be on its way out of the Linux kernel depending upon feedback from stakeholders. Long live initramfs...

Red Hat engineers have been rewriting Greenboot in the Rust programming language to replace the Bash-written version of this generic health check framework for systemd, bootc, and RPM-OSTree based Linux environments. That Rust rewrite of Greenboot is now cleared for appearing in the Fedora Linux 43 release...

Greenboot Rust Rewrite Approved For Fedora 43  Phoronix

DDoS Intrusion Continues to Disrupt Arch Linux  SC Media UK

Microsoft donates DocumentDB to Linux Foundation  Techzine Global

Containers in 2025: Docker vs. Podman for Modern Developers  Linux Journal

Despise Systemd? A New Init System Debuts as a Minimalist Process Supervisor for Linux  It's FOSS News

New CachyOS Release Adds Quality-Of-Life Features and Enables FSR 4 for RDNA 3 GPUs  TechPowerUp

GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p2 was announced this evening as the newest incremental update to this FreeBSD 14 based operating system focused on providing a nice out-of-the-box desktop experience. Notable with this new GhostBSD release is now shipping a Gershwin community preview for this desktop environment focused on providing a Mac OS X like user experience, complete with GNUstep usage...

OpenZFS 2.3.4 Brings Linux 6.16 Kernel Compatibility, "zfs rewrite" Command  Phoronix

OpenZFS 2.4-rc1 was released a few days ago with faster encryption performance using AVX2 and other enhancements. For those just looking for bug fixes and expanded Linux kernel compatibility, OpenZFS 2.3.4 is out today as the newest stable point release...