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Why have I wasted time flashing USB drives to install Windows (and Linux) on PCs when I could have been doing this all along?  Windows Central

4 Cheapest Linux VPS Providers in 2025 – Starting From  CyberNews.com

Chinese Hackers Attacking Linux Devices With New SSH Backdoor  GBHackers

30 Lines of Code Could Cut Data Center Power Use by 30%  LinuxInsider

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New trojan hijacks Linux and IoT devices  CSO Online

While having missed the mark last week for making it into this quarter's Mesa 25.0 release, merged for Q2's Mesa 25.1 release by Microsoft engineers are some enhancements to the Direct3D 12 video encode capabilities...

Mozilla Thunderbird 135 Released with XZ Packaging for Linux Binaries  9to5Linux

As somewhat of an annual tradition for the FOSDEM conference, Daniel Kiper of Oracle presented a status update on the GRUB bootloader. As one of the GRUB maintainers he offers great insight to activity around this most common Linux bootloader...

With Linux 6.14-rc1 released I have begun trying out the new development kernel on a few systems locally. At least for high core count hardware tested thus far, Linux 6.14 at the moment during this early testing phase is sporting some performance regressions within some multi-threaded workloads.

An Early Performance Regression Hitting Highly Threaded Workloads On Linux 6.14-rc1  Phoronix

An Early Performance Regression Hitting Highly Threaded Workloads On Linux 6.14-rc1  Phoronix

With Firefox 135 released, Firefox 136 is now in beta. Most notable with this next iteration of the Mozilla Firefox web browser is finally enabling hardware video acceleration by default for AMD GPUs on Linux...

Firefox 136 Beta Finally Enables Hardware Video Decoding For AMD GPUs On Linux By Default  Phoronix

Firefox 136 Promises Hardware Video Decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux, Vertical Tabs  9to5Linux

Landing this week in the FFmpeg open-source library that is widely-used by multimedia applications was NVIDIA video acceleration improvements for Blackwell GPUs. Over on the AMD side, there are also some interesting changes to have been merged this week into upstream FFmpeg...

While the Linux kernel itself may not be often viewed as a bottleneck to typical high performance computing (HPC) workloads, optimizing the Linux kernel with Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) can prove worthwhile for those seeking maximum performance potential. A presentation this past weekend at FOSDEM 2025 is highlighting around a 3% performance gain for HPC software compiled with PGO enabled...

Optimizing The Linux Kernel With PGO Can Yield ~3% Benefit For HPC Workloads  Phoronix

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is out with a new status report to highlight the progress their developers made over the course of January...

Freedesktop And Alpine Linux Looking For New Hosting  Hackaday