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Ethereum is the Linux of blockchain, says co-founder Vitalik Buterin  TradingView — Track All Markets

Linux Foundation launches Agentic AI open standards hub  IT Brief UK

I built a project management dashboard with Linux KDE Plasma widgets (no apps needed)  How-To Geek

It's been a while since running benchmarks of the Liquorix kernel as an enthusiast-tailored downstream version of the Linux kernel focused on responsiveness for gaming, audio/video production, and other creator/enthusiast workloads. In today's article is a look at how the latest Liquorix kernel derived from Linux 6.18 is competing against the upstream Linux 6.18 LTS kernel on the same system.

Linux 6.18 LTS vs. Liquorix Kernel On AMD Ryzen Threadripper Workstation Performance  Phoronix

Why do I use Linux? It's the apps, and here are 7 of my favorites  How-To Geek

5 reasons I stopped using Ubuntu  How-To Geek

China-Linked UAT-7290 Targets Telecoms with Linux Malware and ORB Nodes  The Hacker News

20% of Linux Kernel Bugs Hide for More Than 5 Years  It's FOSS

On Monday at CES Intel announced Panther Lake as Core Ultra Series 3 with the initial laptop designs to be available for pre-order starting the following day, 6 January, while global availability is expected around 27 January. Now a few days after pre-orders opened up, few options are available and some of the models will not be shipping until mid-February...

Intel Panther Lake Laptops For Pre-Order Scarce So Far  Phoronix

More Ways to Play, More Games to Love — GeForce NOW Wraps CES With Linux Support, Fire TV App, Flight Stick Controls  NVIDIA Blog

A NVIDIA engineer restructuring some of the printf-related code within the memory resource controller "memcg" statistics printing code to reduce the system time by 11% for dumping those stats...

Nvidia Brings GeForce Now to Linux and Fire TV  extremetech.com

Top Linux Desktop Environments In 2026  commandlinux.com

The Linux kernel developers for months now have been debating proposed guidelines for tool-generated submissions to the Linux kernel. As part of the "tools", the main motivator for this documentation has been around the era of AI and large language models with coding assistants and more. Torvalds made some remarks on the Linux kernel mailing list around his belief in focusing the documentation on "tools" rather than explicitly focusing on AI, given the likelihood of AI-assisted contributions continuing regardless of documentation...

The modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver was designed from the start to be more broadly compatible with non-x86 architectures given their discrete graphics processors being front and center, unlike the legacy i915 kernel graphics driver being very x86 minded. While this allows running Intel Arc Graphics on ARM or RISC-V, there are some other kinks still being ironed out with using Intel graphics in the non-x86 world. One of those limitations currently being worked through is the lack of GPU firmware updating on non-x86 systems...

Linux Patches Enable Intel GPU Firmware Updating From Non-x86 Systems  Phoronix

Sent out today was the latest batch of drm-misc-next changes to DRM-Next for staging ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle. The reverse-engineered Etnaviv DRM driver for Vivante graphics/NPU hardware has added a new "PPU flop reset" feature gleaned off studying the downstream vendor kernel driver...

The State of Enterprise Linux for networking  Network World