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OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Brings KDE Plasma 6 By Default, Official Server Edition  Phoronix

How to set up remote desktop access on your Linux computers  ZDNET

Linux 6.15 Lands Fix For "3x Performance Regression" Affecting Nginx & Other Software  Phoronix

The Linux 6.15 kernel has just merged a fix for the big performance regression I spotlighted yesterday on Phoronix with a huge hit to the Nginx HTTPS web server performance that could see a 3x regression from the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel code. It turns out other workloads/applications also were negatively impacted by this regression. While a stumper at first even with the bisected commit, the issue was luckily resolved very quickly.

Mesa 25.1-rc2 is now available for testing as the newest weekly test version of this collection of OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Mesa 25.1 continues working its way toward a stable release in May...

The 4 VPNs I swear by for Linux - and why I trust them  ZDNet

5 cool distros that every Linux expert needs to try out  XDA

Why Installing Linux Is the Perfect Earth Day Activity  How-To Geek

No Linux for old men — ArcoLinux reaches the end of the line  BetaNews

Earlier this month Canonical announced Ubuntu Linux support for the Orange Pi RV2 as a low-cost RISC-V developer board. The Orange Pi RV2 with eight RISC-V cores and 8GB of RAM costs just around $64 USD. The price point and specs were interesting that I ordered one and have been running performance benchmarks on it since for seeing how capable this is as finally an interesting, low-cost and readily available RISC-V board.

Download & Unzip Files Without Leaving the Linux Terminal With These 6 Commands  How-To Geek

OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 brings KDE Plasma 6 and Proton for running Windows games on Linux  BetaNews

AMD Posts Open-Source Linux Patches For Pensando RDMA Driver  Phoronix

The newest open-source Linux driver being worked on by AMD engineers is a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) solution for their Pensando networking hardware...

Survivor-like bullet hell with random maps FIENDRISE adds Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Suvivor-like bullet hell with random maps FIENDRISE adds Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Ubuntu 25.10 Moving Ahead With Plans For Migrating To Rust Coreutils  Phoronix

Back in March some ideas were talked about by Canonical engineers for Ubuntu Linux to move to Rust Coreutils and other Rust-written system components. Some of this is likely to materialize for the Ubuntu 25.10 release due out in October to allow for sufficient testing ahead of the all important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release next year. Today the more solidified plans have been laid out for moving to the Rust Coreutils as a replacement to GNU Coreutils with Ubuntu 25.10...

Following a lot of work in this direction toward the end goal of removing GNOME X11 support, this milestone may finally be acheived for the Fedora 43 cycle due out by the end of the year. A change proposal has been filed for removing the GNOME X11 packages in the repository and in turn making the GNOME desktop Wayland-only on Fedora Linux...

One of the biggest surprises of last year was finding out that VMware has been working on shifting VMware Workstation from proprietary code to building atop the upstream KVM code within the Linux kernel. Following the initial patches from last October, an updated patch series was sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list yesterday for working on this transition...