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When it comes to AMD's incredible Strix Halo platform, the leading laptop option is the HP ZBook Ultra G1a. The HP ZBook Ultra G1a works great overall on Linux with the main caveat being the web camera due to making use of AMD's latest SoC capabilities for offloaded image processing. The AMD ISP4 open-source driver fixes that for the ZBook Ultra G1a and is also important for future laptop models employing AMD's ISP IP...

The Big iPhone Revamp, Lots of Linux Updates, and More: News Roundup  How-To Geek

With Bcachefs now being "externally maintained" with the upstream kernel not accepting any further feature changes for now to this copy-on-write file-system, Bcachefs is pursuing a nice DKMS experience for distributing updated file-system kernel driver support out-of-tree. Convenient DKMS Debian packages of Bcachefs are now available on Ubuntu and Debian Linux platforms...

DKMS Packages For Bcachefs Are Now Available On Debian & Ubuntu  Phoronix

While KDE Plasma 6.5 beta released this week, KDE developers have been busy landing last-minute minor features and fixes into this next desktop release...

Proton Experimental adds fixes for various games not running on CPUs with high core counts  GamingOnLinux

BCacheFS Is Now A DKMS Module After Exile From The Linux Kernel  Hackaday

Zorin OS 18 Beta is Now Available  Thurrott.com

Linux Patch Optimizes Networking, Cuts Latency by 20% in Data Centers  WebProNews

3 Fedora KDE Plasma features that stop me going back to Windows  XDA

I tried cutting Windows out of my life with WinBoat, but I just can't recommend it  XDA

With Windows 10 support ending soon, Zorin OS 18 Beta arrives as a the ultimate alternative to Windows 11  BetaNews

4 reasons you should be using rootless Docker on Linux  xda-developers.com

Zorin OS 18 Beta Released with Refreshed Look, Advanced Window Tiling, and More  9to5Linux

Tor-based Tails Linux 7.0 Has Arrived: Here's What's New  How-To Geek

Ubuntu 25.10 beta comes with the Linux 6.17 kernel and more  Notebookcheck

I've been using Linux for a quarter of a century, so why do I keep coming back to Ubuntu?  Tom's Hardware

PureVPN on Linux Leaks IPv6 Traffic and Tampers with Firewalls  CyberInsider

Linux 6.17 File-System Benchmarks, Including OpenZFS & Bcachefs  Phoronix

Linux 6.17 is an interesting time to carry out fresh file-system benchmarks given that EXT4 has seen some scalability improvements while Bcachefs in the mainline kernel is now in a frozen state. Linux 6.17 is also what's powering Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 out-of-the-box to make such a comparison even more interesting. Today's article is looking at the out-of-the-box performance of EXT4, Btrfs, F2FS, XFS, Bcachefs and then OpenZFS too.