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Breaking Barriers: How Pop!_OS 24.04 Revolutionizes Hybrid Graphics for Linux Users  Linux Journal

Phoronix has made it another year. Today marks 21 years since I started Phoronix.com with a focus on providing Linux hardware reviews. Linux hardware support is a night and day difference then to today as is the overall ecosystem with all the major hardware vendors these days having some -- often significant -- levels of interest in Linux support. No longer is it typically a worry of whether your mouse, 56K modem, WiFi adapter, or other basic peripherals working but most often just a matter of how well the performance is on Linux, whether there is LVFS/Fwupd firmware updating support, and if other non-show-stopping features are supported. We still haven't managed the "year of the Linux desktop" but it's been wild with Chrome OS and Android being based on Linux, Linux coming to dominate the server world, Linux being ubiquitous to cloud computing, and Valve revolutionizing the Linux gaming space...

FOSS Weekly #25.23: Helwan Linux, Quarkdown, Konsole Tweaks, Keyboard Shortcuts and More Linux Stuff  It's FOSS

Linux enjoys a small usage uptick with Steam users, though at 2.69% it still has a long way to go to topple Windows  MSN

Rocky Linux 9.6 Is Available for Download, Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6  9to5Linux

FEX 2506 released today as the newest version of this open-source emulator for running x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 (ARM64) Linux systems...

Open-source Chaos RAT used in recent attacks targeting Linux  SC Media

Open-source Chaos RAT used in recent attacks targeting Linux  SC Media

KDE Pushes Linux as Windows 10 Support Ends in 2025  WebProNews

For those not liking the direction of the Linux desktop with its Wayland-first focus, the Rust-written Redox OS has begun rolling out X11 support within its Orbital display server...

Rust-Based Redox OS Begins Implements X11 Support, GTK3 Port  Phoronix

Mesa 25.1.2 is out today as the newest stable bi-weekly point release to this collection of open-source OpenGL/Vulkan/video drivers widely relied upon by Linux systems...

Linux 6.16 Exposes Statistics For NUMA Task Migration & Swapping  Phoronix

In addition to the memory management "MM" changes merged last week that included features like Kernel HandOver "KHO" support, a second batch of MM changes were submitted and merged this week for Linux 6.16...

KDE targets Windows 10 'exiles' claiming 'your computer is toast'  theregister.com

KDE Welcomes Windows 10 Users to Linux, Says Microsoft Is Doing "Tech Extortion"  How-To Geek

3 lessons I learned while using Linux as a Windows fanboy  XDA

Greg Kroah-Hartman today released Linux 6.15.1 as the first stable point release to the Linux 6.15 kernel that first shipped a week and a half ago. Linux 6.15.1 brings an initial batch of fixes, which are particularly noteworthy if trying to use a Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 laptop on Linux...

Linux 6.15.1 Ships With Fix To Prevent Snapdragon X1 GPUs From Severely Overheating  Phoronix

KDE is ready for Windows 10 exiles, but there's a big issue that needs to be talked about more  Windows Central