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LoongArch Enables Multi-Core Scheduler Support In Linux 6.16  Phoronix

The Linux Mint project published its newest monthly status report to outline various interesting development activities around this Linux desktop distribution project building off Ubuntu and Debian bases...

Linux Mint Continues Working On Its libAdwaita Fork, Fingerprint Authentication  Phoronix

Linux Mint 22.2 Will Feature Fingerprint Authentication with Fingwit App  9to5Linux

I replaced my Linux system with this $200 Windows mini PC - and it left me impressed  ZDNet

This tiny Linux computer, complete with screen, is smaller than a passport photo, and I'm in love with it  XDA

All of the kernel build system "Kbuild" updates were merged today for the nearly-over Linux 6.16 merge window that is expected to conclude tomorrow with the Linux 6.16-rc1 release. Notable with the Kbuild pull is the introduction of the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES helper...

9 Open Source Operating Systems That Aren't Linux  How-To Geek

Liberux NEXX: Linux smartphone with kill switches, extensive connectivity and 32 GB RAM  Notebookcheck

NumPy 2.3 is out today as the latest release of this widely-used library for scientific computing. Notable with NumPy 2.3 is finally adding some parallelization support via OpenMP...

The RISC-V architecture feature updates were merged on Friday for the Linux 6.16 merge window that is set to end on Sunday with the Linux 6.16-rc1 release...

ChatGPT Patched A BIOS Binary, And It Worked  Hackaday

Kali GPT- AI Assistant That Transforms Penetration Testing on Kali Linux  CybersecurityNews

It was just earlier this week that Mesa 25.1.2 arrived as the newest bi-weekly bug-fix release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Coming out today is an emergency bug-fix release to fix a regression affecting AMD Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4 graphics card owners...

Mesa 25.1.3 Released As Emergency Update For Radeon RX 9000 Series Linux Users  Phoronix

7 reasons I chose Btrfs over ZFS for my home NAS  XDA

Micro Machines  Hackster.io

No More Difficult Linux Gentoo Installs: Redcore Makes It Easy  The New Stack

Vulkan 1.4.317 was made public on Friday with a number of exciting new extensions, including VP9 video decoding for Vulkan Video, 8-bit floating-point data type support, and other additions...

For those making use of GNOME Papers as the increasingly popular document viewer app for the GNOME desktop, a major rework was merged to enhance the annotations experience...