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Intel Releases Updated Battlemage Driver Preview Support For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  Phoronix

While there is nice out-of-the-box support for the new Intel Arc "Battlemage" graphics cards on the new Ubuntu 25.04 release, if you prefer running the Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release there isn't complete support until the next hardware enablement "HWE" update. But Intel in cooperation with Canonical has now published a new graphics driver preview stack for enabling better Intel Arc B-Series support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users...

SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S  GamingOnLinux

Microsoft's Azure Linux Preps For NVIDIA GB200 Servers  Phoronix

Microsoft on Tuesday released a new version of Azure Linux, their in-house Linux distribution that is used for a variety of purposes from the Azure cloud to powering other Microsoft services...

Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box  theregister.com

Hobbyists continue to tinker around with the Motorola 68000 "m68k" support within the Linux kernel and even landing a fix now in 2025 for the vintage Macintosh II...

If You Aren't a Linux User, What's Stopping You From Switching?  How-To Geek

Archinstall 3.0.7 is out today as the newest feature update to this text-based Arch Linux installer that makes it quick and easy to deploy a new Arch Linux installation...

Arch Linux Installer Adds Option To Configure Btrfs Snapshots Post-Install  Phoronix

Archinstall 3.0.7 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Adds Support for Btrfs Snapshots  9to5Linux

Employee of Panasonic Automotive Systems appointed Linux Foundation Japan Evangelist  Panasonic Newsroom Global

Miss Apple's Toucbar? Flexbar Brings This Experience to Linux  It's FOSS News

Installing VS Code on Arch Linux Takes Some Thinking  It's FOSS

Ted Ts'o sent out the EXT4 file-system changes today for the Linux 6.16 kernel. While EXT4 may not see as much code churn these days given its mature state compared to say Btrfs and Bcachefs, with Linux 6.16 are some tantalizing performance improvements...

Merged today for Xfce's Xfwm4 window manager component is a built-in Wayland compositor using wlroots...

Independent Distro KaOS 2025.05 Arrives with Linux 6.14 and KDE Gear 25.04  9to5Linux

Can’t afford RHEL? AlmaLinux 10 is enterprise Linux for cheapskates  BetaNews

The Chromebook Plus Might Be the Best Choice For Linux Newbies  How-To Geek

Google engineer Eric Biggers took time away from all his impressive crypto performance optimizations to the Linux kernel for modern Intel and AMD CPUs to spend time getting support for hardware-wrapped inline encryption keys into the mainline kernel. Google's Android kernel has been carrying this functionality for several years to help enhance security and will now be found in the mainline kernel too for capable platforms...