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FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 had been expected this weekend but instead a fifth beta release of FreeBSD 15.0 was deemed warranted...

Linux surpasses 3% on Steam: one small step for gamers, one leap for the penguin.  Red Hot Cyber

Linux PPA Ransomware Scare Lacking Evidence  OMG! Ubuntu

In addition to GNOME's Mutter compositor removing its X11 back-end support to focus exclusively on Wayland while keeping around XWayland client support, another notable GNOME change this week was the GTK toolkit adding a "reduced motion" accessibility option...

It's been a while since having anything major to talk about with the NILFS2 file-system but it looks like that could be changing. NILFS2 as a reminder is a log-structured file-system with continuous snapshotting with its NILFS predecessor having been in the mainline kernel for two decades since the mid Linux 2.6 days...

This is the Linux distro I moved my non-tech family members to  XDA

I stopped fearing the Linux terminal after learning these 5 commands  MakeUseOf

Mesa 25.3-rc4 Brings Fix For Many Steam Play Games To Properly Run On Intel Linux Driver  Phoronix

Mesa 25.3-rc4 is available for testing as the latest weekly candidate as we work toward the Mesa 25.3 stable release this month...

Linux Mint 22.3 is Adding New System Hardware Tools  OMG! Ubuntu

Hyprland 0.52 is available today as the latest feature update for this alternative Wayland compositor...

I made a portable Linux drive that boots on nearly any computer  XDA

It has been two years already since the Linux Containers project forked Canonical's LXD project as Incus. Now joining the Incus family is IncusOS as an immutable Linux OS built atop a Debian base with OpenZFS file-system support and designed around running containers with Incus...

IncusOS Announced As Immutable Linux OS With ZFS For Running Containers  Phoronix

CIQ: Rocky Linux Is Authorized Linux Distribution for NVIDIA AI Stack  insideAI News

Tuxedo Launches InfinityBook Max 15: Ryzen AI 9 Linux Laptop with RTX 5070 Graphics  TechPowerUp

Arch Linux is getting easier to install  How-To Geek

TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 15 Gen10 Linux Laptop Announced with AMD Ryzen AI 300  9to5Linux

Posted last month were new Linux kernel scheduler-related patches rewriting the MM CID management code. The main takeaway for end-users from this set of 19 Linux kernel patches from an Intel engineer was seeing 14~18% improvement in a PostgreSQL database benchmark but that more benchmarks were needed. Curiosity got the best of me and I recently tested these patches on an AMD EPYC server to seeing some very enticing results for this in-development code.

Intel's Rewrite Of Linux MM CID Code Showing Some Nice Gains For AMD  Phoronix