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In preparing for the GNOME 50 Alpha release, the "50.alpha" tags just occurred for the Mutter compositor and GNOME Shell. Most notable with GNOME Mutter 50 Alpha is the X11 back-end indeed being removed to focus exclusively on the Wayland session...

A Linux scheduler patch queued up into a TIP branch this past week further restrict is the preemption modes that will be advertised. With it hitting the "sched/core" branch, it will likely be submitted for the upcoming Linux 7.0 (or alternatively, what could be known as Linux 6.20 instead)...

Linux distro designed to look like Windows hits 2 million downloads since the end of Windows 10 support  PC Guide

While Intel has been upstreaming various Panther Lake firmware bits to linux-firmware.git for pairing with their open-source kernel drivers ahead of Core Ultra Series 3 laptops shipping, one piece of the puzzle only published today is the GSC firmware for the Panther Lake graphics...

Intel Panther Lake GSC Firmware Published Ahead Of Laptop Availability  Phoronix

Experts warn this new Chinese Linux malware could be preparing something seriously worrying  TechRadar

5 popular Linux terminal-based file managers—ranked  How-To Geek

Niche Linux System Becomes a 'Phenomenal Hit' Forced by Microsoft: 2M Downloads in 3 Months, 1.5M Windows Users 'Defect'  36Kr

GOG leadership turns on Windows as Linux is considered  Windows Central

Netrunner Rolling 2019.04 Arch-based Linux distribution available for download  BetaNews

These 7 Linux commands are deprecated so don't use them - here's why  ZDNET

The Intel Compute Runtime 26.01.36711.4 was published today as their first release of 2026 for this open-source GPU compute stack providing Level Zero and OpenCL support across their range of graphics hardware going back to Tiger Lake. Notable with this new Compute Runtime release is having now production-ready Panther Lake support while also introducing early support for next-generation hardware...

Michel Dänzer of Red Hat has kicked off 2026 xorg-server activity with landing a patch series enhancing the Resize and Rotate (RandR) extension support under XWayland for improving mode handling by X11 clients...

Tomeu Vizoso as the open-source developer behind the "Rocket" driver for reverse-engineered Rockchip NPU support, Teflon as a Mesa framework for TensorFlow Lite and NPU uses, and various Etnaviv driver work, has announced his newest creation: Thames...

New "Thames" Linux Accelerator Driver Posted Along With Companion Gallium3D Driver  Phoronix

New Linux malware framework targets cloud and containers  Techzine Global

New Linux malware detected: admins “may never realize their infrastructure has been quietly taken over”  Cybernews

I'm a creator and my new favorite Linux distro is multimedia perfection - here's why  ZDNET

Linux Systems Face a New Predator: Inside VoidLink’s Sophisticated Attack Arsenal  Technology Org

Linux apps are NOT coming to many still-supported Chromebooks  BetaNews