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Why ZorinOS 18 might be the new best Linux distro - and I've tried them all  ZDNET

Linus Torvalds Releases Linux 6.17-rc7 with Stability and Security Fixes  WebProNews

Linux 6.18 Kernel Adds SLPC Power Savings to Intel Xe Driver  WebProNews

This $550 Linux Phone Has Kill Switches That Protect Your Privacy  It's FOSS News

AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Performance With ROCm 7.0  Phoronix

With last week's official release of ROCm 7.0 failing to mention the AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" SoCs on the supported GPU list, a number of Phoronix readers and from elsewhere were inquiring whether or not Strix Halo works with the new ROCm release. Various AMD folks have mentioned Strix Halo with ROCm, so I decided to run some benchmarks for myself of ROCm 7.0 on Ubuntu Linux with the AMD Ryzen AI Max 395 with Radeon 8060S Graphics on the Framework Desktop.

Megabonk is Risk of Rain 2 fused with Vampire Survivors and it's glorious  GamingOnLinux

Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy  The Cloudflare Blog

This free and open-source tool made my USB drives way more useful  MakeUseOf

RPM 6.0 Released with Support for Multiple OpenPGP Signatures per Package  9to5Linux

XTX Markets as one of the largest algorithmic trading firms that handles $250 billion in daily traded volume and relies on around 650+ petabytes of storage for its price forecasts and other algorithmic trading data has open-sourced its Linux file-system. XTX developed TernFS for distributed storage after they outgrew their original NFS usage and other file-system alternatives...

A Major Trading Firm Has Open-Sourced The Latest Linux File-System: TernFS  Phoronix

Linux 6.18 Adding A New Power Savings Option For The Intel Graphics Driver  Phoronix

Queued up into DRM-Next is a last batch of Intel Xe kernel graphics driver improvements ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window that is expected to begin next week. With this last minute Intel Xe driver activity is also a new power management knob for those wanting to run their Intel graphics slightly more efficient...

How I Configure Polybar to Customize My Linux Desktop  It's FOSS

LMDE 7 "Gigi" Beta Released With Debian 13 Base  It's FOSS News

MX Linux 25 “Infinity” Enters Public Beta Testing Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”  9to5Linux

BlackLock Ransomware Targets Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi Systems  gbhackers.com

The beta release of the Qt Creator 18 integrated development environment is now available for testing for this Qt/C++-focused IDE...

Version 1.4.327 of the Vulkan API specification was released on Friday and with it comes one new extension, which is a Valve vendor extension...