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Veeam Software Appliance boosts data protection  Help Net Security

Twinkleby from Might & Delight to launch September 23 with Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

Pods Is a Handy Linux GUI for Managing Your Podman Containers  The New Stack

Linux Kernel’s Floppy Disk Driver Gets Rare Update for Legacy Support  WebProNews

Intel Arc Pro B50 Linux Performance Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Intel Arc Pro B50 Linux Performance Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Intel announced the Arc Pro B-Series back at Computex consisting of the Arc Pro B50 and Arc Pro B60 graphics cards. Marking availability today and the review embargo lift is for the Arc Pro B50 for workstations, which provides 16GB of RAM, 70 Watt total board power, and a $349 USD launch price for this workstation graphics card. Here are the preliminary Linux performance benchmarks and open-source driver support metrics for the Intel Arc Pro B50.

Mesa 25.2.2 is out today as another on-time, bi-weekly Mesa point release managed by Eric Engestrom...

One of the planned changes for Fedora 43 was setting an expectation that RPM package builds are reproducible. Much of Fedora's "reproducible builds" effort is already complete but this change has now been deferred to the Fedora 44 release next year...

Linux Scheduler Adapted For A Latency Win & Avoiding An RT Deadlock  Phoronix

A patch series for the Linux kernel scheduler code is queued up for expected introduction in Linux 6.18 to defer throttle when tasks exit to user-space. These changes to switch the scheduler to a task-based throttle model and task-based throttle time accounting can provide a latency win and also address a possible deadlock situation for real-time "RT" kernels...

It's not too often hearing PCMCIA these days as that defunct PC card standard for laptops from the 90's and early 00's. Back in 2023 Linux began dropping old PCMCIA drivers from the kernel while coming as a surprise today are some clean-ups for the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) subsystem code persisting within the Linux kernel...

Linux Sees Fresh Fixes For PCMCIA PC Card Support In 2025  Phoronix

Merged overnight to Mesa 25.3 is an improvement for the Intel driver's Vulkan Video encode/decode handling that has been in the works the past few months...

Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Kaspersky outlines Windows and Linux users facing increased vulnerability exploits  TahawulTech.com

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The ollama open-source software that makes it easy to run AI large language models (LLMs) across different operating systems, hardware, and models is about to enjoy a nice speed boost...