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Another X11 revival for Linux has arrived, but what's the point?  How-To Geek

5 Essential Steam Deck Apps You Should Be Using In 2026  bgr.com

As part of the various end-of-year benchmarking comparisons on Phoronix and with Linux 6.19 switching older AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics cards to the AMDGPU driver by default, I planned for a very large AMD Radeon graphics card comparison on the latest open-source Linux driver for ending out 2025. In the end though I was thwarted by newer AMD RDNA3 / RDNA4 graphics cards regressing hard on Linux 6.19 that led to ending this testing prematurely due to a show-stopping bug. In any case in this article offers a fresh look at older GCN and RDNA graphics cards on Linux 6.19 + Mesa 26.0-devel.

AMD RDNA3/RDNA4 Go Down Hard On Linux 6.19, But Here's How The Older AMD GPUs End Out 2025  Phoronix

Connecting to a VPN Service from the Linux Command Line  Yahoo! Tech

How to Connect to a VPN Service from the Linux Command Line  How-To Geek

New to Linux? 5 must-have apps to install on day one  Yahoo! Tech

New to Linux? 5 must-have apps to install on day one  How-To Geek

My 11 favorite Linux distributions of all time, ranked  ZDNet

Coreboot 25.12 is out today as the latest quarterly feature update to this open-source BIOS/firmware solution...

CachyOS wants to be your NAS operating system  How-To Geek

I tried dozens of Linux apps in 2025, but these are the ones I still use  How-To Geek

Linux Foundation’s Safe Harbour for the Agentic AI Era  Analytics India Magazine

NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux  Hackaday

It was a very interesting year for Ubuntu Linux. Ahead of the important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release due out this coming April, Ubuntu Linux this year was expeditiously migrating to new Rust-based system tools like sudo-rs and Rust Coreutils, new performance optimizations continued to be explored for bettering the out-of-the-box Ubuntu performance, better ARM64 support with its desktop ISO, and enhancing the Snapdragon X Elite laptop support were among the Ubuntu highlights in 2025...

An exciting post-Christmas patch series out on the Linux kernel mailing list this morning is proposing a new runtime standby ABI that is similar in nature to the "Modern Standby" functionality found with Microsoft Windows...

New Runtime Standby ABI Proposed For Linux Akin To Microsoft Windows' "Modern Standby"  Phoronix

This year there was a lot of going on in the NVIDIA Linux world from their official driver stack seeing better Wayland support to a lot on the open-source scene from NVIDIA engineers contributing a lot directly to the Rust-based Nova open-source driver that continues taking shape, the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver becoming more performant and capable, and a lot of other happenings. Here is a look back at the most popular NVIDIA content of 2025 on Phoronix...

For those using Microsoft's exFAT file-system under Linux for the likes of flash drives and SD cards, a new patch series posted today aims to enhance the read performance. The new patches are shown to improve performance by about 10% while also having lower overhead...

After decades of using Windows, Linux's KDE Plasma is spoiling me rotten  XDA