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Ubuntu Questing Quokka Beta is Out  Daily Kos

Merged to Mesa Git are new contributor guidelines added to the documentation. This can help new users in submitting patches to Mesa. It also lays out a policy of allowing AI-generated/assisted code but the author submitting the code must be able to understand the code in question and take responsibility for it...

2025 year of Linux? Data suggests unsupported Windows 11 users overwhelmingly choosing one  Neowin

The golden age of real-time strategy returns? Dying Breed releases October 7  GamingOnLinux

Announced last month was the Ubuntu "Dangerous" Desktop Images as a new form of the Ubuntu Linux desktop images that would ship with leading-edge Snaps atop the latest Ubuntu development images... Basically, pulling in the very latest Snaps to go along with the latest Ubuntu development Debian packages...

Here's how I installed Windows 11 using a nano-sized 2.4GB ISO — final install weighed in at a mere 8.36GB, two-thirds the size of a normal Windows install, courtesy of Nano11 Builder  Tom's Hardware

In addition to working on optimizing the performance of Zink for workstation graphics, Mike Blumenkrantz has also been tackling support for OpenGL mesh shaders with this generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan open-source driver...

In addition to AMD posting patches this week working on ACPI C4 power savings support available in some newer AMD systems, patches were separately posted this week for enabling S0ix sleep support within the AMDKFD compute kernel driver...

AMDKFD Compute Driver Sees Patches For S0ix Standby Support  Phoronix

The beta release of KDE's Plasma 6.5 desktop took place on Thursday as they work toward the stable release expected on 21 October...

ChatGPT: More Lipstick than Linux - the unexpected user revolution  openPR.com

Hyprland Made Easy: Preconfigured Beautiful Distros  It's FOSS

Burden of Truth Is Now Available on Steam for PC, Mac, and Linux  COGconnected

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If you’ve ever reinstalled Ubuntu, you know the pain of setting everything up again, such as finding apps, adding PPAs,

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Think You Need A New PC For Windows 11? Think Again  Hackaday

Canonical today released the Ubuntu 25.10 Beta as they work toward the stable Ubuntu 25.10 release in mid-October...

Ubuntu 25.10 Beta Officially Released For Testing  Phoronix

Valve is finally pushing the Steam client beyond the 32-bit world, at least for Microsoft Windows...

As announced last month, PCI Express 8.0 is aiming for 256 GT/s speeds for allowing 1 TB/s bandwidth in an x16 configuration. In working towards the goals of PCIe 8.0, the PCI-SIG announced today that the v0.3 specification has been released to members...

Ubuntu 25.10 Beta Released with Linux Kernel 6.17, GNOME 49, and More  9to5Linux