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Merged to Mesa 26.1-devel this week is a minor improvement to the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver providing some slight enhancements to DirectX 12 games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with VKD3D-Proton...

Intel Vulkan Driver Sees Some Minor Optimizations For DX12 Games On Linux  Phoronix

AlmaLinux as one of the leading, modern and community-minded alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) continues enjoying very nice growth. In their 2025 Year In Review they provided a look at their growth with now having more than two million systems per week checking in for software updates...

Introducing Kvaser Edge: a secure Linux edge platform for automotive and industrial applications  Electronics Media

AlmaLinux Showing Nice Growth With More Than 2M System Update Check-Ins Per Week  Phoronix

Building off January's GStreamer 1.28 release with many new features, GStreamer 1.28.1 was released today as a point release bringing various fixes and minor additions to this open-source multimedia framework...

Longterm supported Linux kernels get a longer life  GamingOnLinux

Watch out Microsoft, Nvidia is hiring people to make games run better on Linux  Club386

Kali Linux Integrates Claude AI via Model Context Protocol to Enhance Offensive Security  Cyber Press

Some Linux kernels just got a nice LTS end-of-life extension, including 6.12  XDA

Kali Linux Introduces Claude AI for Automated Penetration Testing Using Model Context Protocol  gbhackers.com

NVIDIA Strengthens Linux Focus: Betting on Vulkan and Proton. Good News for Gamers  IXBT.games

Kali Linux Integrates Claude AI for Penetration Testing via Model Context Protocol  CybersecurityNews

Want your Linux looking more like Windows? KDE Plasma makes it easy - here's how  ZDNET

Following the Firefox 148 release with the new AI controls, Mozilla promoted Firefox 149 to beta today...

Linux 7.0 Kernel Public Beta brings support for upcoming AMD and Intel processor architectures and system efficiency tools  Technetbook

b4's Review TUI With AI Integration Nearing Pre-Alpha Release  Phoronix

The b4 tool used for managing patch workflows to the Linux kernel has been seeing a lot of work recently on b4 review as the text user interface (TUI) to help expedite the patch review process for the Linux kernel. The b4 review TUI has been integrating AI agent code review helpers powered by the likes of Claude Code too for trying to help enhance the efficiency for Linux kernel patch reviews. That b4 review work is quickly approaching a pre-alpha state...

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