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How This Classic Video Game Helped Spread Linux  How-To Geek

Serpent OS Working Toward Second Alpha, More Immutable OS Features  Phoronix

Despite Serpent OS development said to be slowing down to a lack of funding, they are hoping for the best and aiming to push forward with this original, from-scratch Linux distribution...

With the Linux 6.14 kernel Bcachefs has its last big planned on-disk format upgrade before removing the "experimental" tag on this copy-on-write file-system. Well, that's the hope at least. In addition to some early fixes last week, some additional Bcachefs fixes are now pending for merging to the mainline kernel while continuing to track down some other bugs...

NVIDIA on Thursday published their first public beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression "RTX NTC" software development kit...

AMDVLK 2025.Q1.1 is out this morning as the first update of the year to this official AMD open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems...

AMDVLK 2025.Q1.1 Brings New Performance Tuning & Fixes  Phoronix

Games to claim from Prime Gaming, February 7 edition round-up for SteamOS Linux and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

The post How to Install and Configure Ubuntu Server in 30 Minutes first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Setting up your first Linux server might feel overwhelming at first, especially if you’re new to server management. However, the

The post How to Install and Configure Ubuntu Server in 30 Minutes first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Techrights — Tons of Anti-Linux 'Articles' Published by Bots (LLMs), Maybe Microsoft's  LXer

The Best Linux Distros for Privacy in 2025  Privacy News Online

Ghostty Update Adds Server-Side Decoration Support on Linux  OMG! Ubuntu!

A year ago I raised attention about crypto-config as a new Ubuntu project for system-wide cryptography configuration. That crypto config tool continues being developed by Canonical engineers for a gradual roll-out into the Ubuntu Linux landscape...

CISA: Actively-Exploited Linux Kernel Flaw Requires Immediate Remediation  MSSP Alert

Linux kernel flaw added to CISA’s exploited vulnerabilities list  SC Media

Android and Chrome OS already are carrying the VirtIO Media driver as a means of enabling virtualization of host media devices into a guest while now patch review is underway in trying to get VirtIO Media upstreamed in the mainline Linux kernel...

VirtIO Media Driver Upstreaming Pursued For Relaying V4L2 Media Devices To Guests  Phoronix

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Canonical Delivers Ubuntu Tar Archives for Easy Installation in the Windows Subsystem for Linux  Hackster.io

After recently re-visiting the AMD EPYC 9005 series AVX-512 performance, I followed up with some fresh SMT benchmarks looking at the performance benefits and power of toggling Simultaneous Multi-Threading on the 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" hardware. Here are some fresh numbers looking at the SMT performance with AMD Zen 5 server processors.