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Yet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's why  ZDNet

Tools and Tips for Creating Data Backups on Linux Servers  TechRepublic

Kali 2025.2 Gets Many Visual Buffs with GNOME 48, KDE 6 & More  It's FOSS News

Denmark wants to replace Windows and Office with Linux and LibreOffice as it seeks to embrace digital sovereignty  MSN

Review: Learning Kali Linux, 2nd Edition  Help Net Security

Linux 6.16-rc2: Smaller than usual, but with notable network and bcachefs tweaks  Neowin

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 15th, 2025  9to5Linux

Linux 6.16-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes  Phoronix

Following the release of Linux 6.16-rc1 last Sunday that capped off the Linux 6.16 merge window, Linux 6.16-rc2 is now available with an initial week's worth of bug/regression fixes. Linux 6.16 development continues in aiming toward a stable release around the end of July...

High Tide (GTK4/libadwaita TIDAL Client for Linux) Hits Flathub  OMG! Ubuntu

Kubuntu Focus M2 Gen 6: Powerful Linux laptop launches with RTX 5070 Ti, Ultra 9 275HX and space for up to 96 GB RAM  Notebookcheck

Back in May a big patch series was published for reworking the Linux kernel to make the SMP support unconditional. Right now those that happen to be running Linux in a uniprocessor (1 CPU core) configuration can build with "CONFIG_SMP" disabled but the proposed patches would make symmetric multi-processing support always present. Those patches took a step forward this week and could be merged for the Linux 6.17 cycle later in the summer...

Linux 6.17 Looks Like It Could Go Ahead And Make SMP Support Unconditional  Phoronix

Digital sovereignty or digital disaster? Denmark’s risky plan to break up with Microsoft is underway  TechRadar

I switched to NixOS after using Windows my whole life, and here’s how it went  XDA

I Dug Up the Biggest Files on My Linux PC, Here's What I Found  How-To Geek

The X.Org Server has been seeing a lot of commits this week... to revert bad code...

While the Linux 6.16 merge window just passed one week ago, already there are new feature changes beginning to queue for the Linux 6.17 kernel later in the summer...

Prominent AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák this week landed a number of fixes for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code in working to enable medium precision "mediump" support for this open-source graphics driver...

PeaZip 10.5 Brings Major Performance Boost to the File and Archive Manager  9to5Linux