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Wine 10.9 fell slightly off its bi-weekly Friday release rhythm with only debuting today, but in any event it's now available for testing with the latest features for enjoying Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms...

The reasons people hate Linux are why I love it  XDA

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 1st, 2025  9to5Linux

Merged today for the Linux 6.16 kernel were all of the Watchdog subsystem updates for monitoring system health and taking action such as rebooting if the system state goes bad. With the Linux 6.16 is the introduction of the Intel Overclocking Watchdog "OC WDT" driver...

Intel Overclocking Watchdog Driver Merged For Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Linux users, rejoice! CachyOS fixes NVIDIA issues and kills buggy browser  BetaNews

WSL is designed to keep Linux users happy on Windows, but it helped me switch to Linux instead  XDA

How I Break Linux's Rules and Install Any Package on Any Distro  How-To Geek

Uubntu Linux 20.04 'Focal Fossa' Is No Longer Getting Updates  How-To Geek

The Linux 6.15 kernel that shipped as stable last week mistakenly shipped with a nasty CPU power regression for some systems. The issue is now fixed in Linux 6.16 Git and will be fixed shortly in the Linux 6.15 point releases...

Linux 6.15 Shipped With A Nasty Power Regression For Some Systems  Phoronix

These 5 Linux Distros Still Support 32-Bit PCs  How-To Geek

This Alternative Operating System Is Keeping Retro Computing Alive  How-To Geek

Linux 6.16 Enables Support For Arm Scalable Matrix Extension "SME"  Phoronix

The Linux kernel had not enabled support for Arm Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) due to bugs, but with the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel those issues have been resolved and so SME can now be enabled for the rare SoCs having said hardware support...

The Linux 6.16 merge window this weekend suffered an unexpected twist this weekend when Linus Torvalds noticed some unusual Git activity by a longtime Linux kernel developer. The issue is still being sorted through but it would appear that the possible malicious activity came down to some scripting issues around Git...

The release candidate of FreeBSD 14.3 is now available for testing ahead of the official operating system release this month...

I put Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and unlocked a new way of computing  ZDNET

Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.1 Is One of the First Distros to Ship with Linux 6.15  9to5Linux

May was another busy month when it comes to Linux hardware and software milestones albeit depressing when looking at the ongoing state of the web/ad industry. In any event there were 25 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles and another 268 original Linux-related news articles all written by your's truly for the month. Here is a look back at what excited Phoronix readers the most during May...