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Valve's Steam Deck with SteamOS features built-in crash data collection as well as for logging other system events worth having knowledge about like the split-lock detection and other events. This is all opt-in by users for data collection by Steam, but for those curious about a bit more insight into this Steam Deck data collection, a presentation at this past week's Linux Plumbers Conference dove into the matter...

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 14th, 2025  9to5Linux

As the Linux 6.19 merge window winded down this weekend, I began running this development kernel on more systems. While there are some scheduler regressions currently with Linux 6.19 Git, for HPC workloads especially I am seeing some encouraging results using a flagship AMD EPYC 9965 2P server configuration.

Early Linux 6.19 Benchmarks On AMD EPYC 9965 2P Excelling For AI & HPC Performance  Phoronix

The CentOS kernel modules "Kmods" special interest group (SIG) is now providing NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules for users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its downstreams as well as for CentOS Stream...

CentOS Kmods SIG Providing NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules For RHEL/CentOS Users  Phoronix

APT vs Pacman: Which Linux package manager is better for beginners  How-To Geek

Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.19 Release Candidate  9to5Linux

The FamFS file-system being developed by Micron hopes to go upstream for Linux in "early-ish 2026"...

FamFS Hopes To Go Upstream In 2026  Phoronix

I stopped using Linux for a year, here's what brought me back  Yahoo! Tech

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...