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I stopped using Linux for a year, here's what brought me back  How-To Geek

Cybersecurity News Weekly Newsletter – Windows, Chrome, and Apple 0-days, Kali Linux 2025.4, and MITRE Top...  CybersecurityNews

I switched from Windows to Linux and these 4 habits held me back  How-To Geek

53 years later, bus standard launched by HP in 1972 gets stable Linux driver — General Purpose Interface Bus has blistering 8 MB/s of bandwidth  Tom's Hardware

I tried Pop!_OS for a week: Here's what worked for me and what didn’t  How-To Geek

The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged initial support for JPEG-XS...

Rust Coreutils 0.5 is now available as the latest milestone for this Rust-based alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.5 continues moving closer to "full GNU compatibility" with nearly a 90% pass rate on the GNU test suite...

Linux 6.19-rc1 Released From Japan  Phoronix

The Linux 6.19-rc1 kernel is out to cap off the Linux 6.19 merge window. The kernel release is coming the better part of a day earlier due to Linus Torvalds being in Japan for this past week's Linux Plumbers Conference and Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit...

For those with fond memories of the original Puppy Linux as a lightweight Linux distribution that used to run well back in the day on systems with less than 1GB of RAM, TrixiePup64 is out with a new release of this Puppy Linux based distribution with Debian GNU/Linux components. The new TrixiePup64 11.2 release is based on the latest Debian Trixie sources while continuing to offer separate builds for either X11 or Wayland usage...

TrixiePup64 11.2 Released For Debian-Based Puppy Linux With Wayland & X11 Options  Phoronix

Merged during this second week of the Linux 6.19 feature merge window were the many x86 platform driver changes. As usual, much of the x86 platform driver activity surrounds bettering Linux hardware laptop support but also a growing number of handheld computers / gaming devices...

Exciting Laptop & Gaming Handheld Device Improvements Merged For Linux 6.19  Phoronix

I love the Linux terminal, but I still recommend the GUI  MakeUseOf

Linux Kernel Adopts Rust as Permanent Core Language in 2025  WebProNews

The past few years Oracle has been working on bpftune as a solution for BPF-based, automatic tuning of Linux systems. Bpftune has been available via Oracle Linux and GitHub while finally their open-source GitHub code has seen the first new tagged release in a while...

The Network File-System (NFS) client changes were merged today for the Linux 6.19 kernel with the most notable feature addition being initial support for basic directory delegations...

Nakst Integrate: virtual analog Synthesizer plugin for mac, Linux and Windows is now FREE  synth anatomy

The Real Time Clock (RTC) driver changes were merged today for Linux 6.19 ahead of the merge window wrapping up on Sunday...

New RTC Drivers For Apple & NVIDIA With Linux 6.19  Phoronix