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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...

AlmaLinux OS 10 Released as a Free Alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10  9to5Linux

Intel APX Ready With Linux 6.16, Outdated Intel CPU Microcode Reporting Merged  Phoronix

Merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel are all of the x86 core enhancements that provide a variety of benefits to Intel as well as AMD processors...

Zotac Zone 2 switches to Linux to be the most direct Steam Deck OLED competitor  The Shortcut | Matt Swider

Building off the recent release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, AlmaLinux 10.0 stable is now available as this RHEL-derived popular community Linux OS alternative...

AlmaLinux 10.0 Stable Released - Unlike RHEL 10, It Continues Supporting x86-64-v2 CPUs  Phoronix