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Linux 6.12-rc3 Released With Some Late NTFS Driver Enhancements  Phoronix

Android 16 will include a Terminal and full Linux VM support with GPU acceleration  Notebookcheck.net

How to See Beautiful Git Project Stats in Your Terminal  How-To Geek

With a number of patches queued this week into the staging tree ahead of the Linux 6.13 kernel, a number of old and no longer maintained hardware drivers are set to be removed in the next kernel cycle...

Switching from Microsoft Windows 11 to Linux is like Columbus discovering America  BetaNews

As a result of user feedback and being able to reproduce some annoying ad experiences, particularly on mobile devices, I've been able to make some enhancements to hopefully improve the user ad experience when browsing Phoronix...

Windows 11, macOS 15: What Version of Linux Are We On?  How-To Geek

10 Things You Can do on Linux but not on Windows  It's FOSS

Building off the recent infrastructure merged for Mesa 24.3 as a build option to allow Rusticl driver support to be enabled by default, Red Hat's Karol Herbst has added the Asahi Gallium3D driver to the default list...

Adding to the growing set of features for NVK as this open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa, the VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate fragment shading rate extension is now supported...

While Azure Linux 3.0 has been available since the late summer, for those continuing to rely on Azure Linux 2.0 in production there is a big update out this weekend. Azure Linux 2.0.20241006 brings dozens of security fixes to this Microsoft Linux distribution...

Microsoft's Azure Linux 2.0 Updated With Dozens Of Security Fixes  Phoronix

AAA gaming comes to Apple M1 thanks to the latest Asahi Linux build — Control, Cyberpunk 2077, and The Witcher 3 are playable with respectable frame rates  Tom's Hardware

Ubuntu Linux: Install the Suricata Intrusion Detection System  The New Stack

5 reasons Arch Linux and Valve teaming up just makes sense  XDA Developers

Wayland Protocols 1.38 is out with three new staging protocols...

Linux: Create System Backups With rsnapshot  The New Stack

Back in January AMD published an open-source XDNA Linux kernel driver for supporting their Ryzen AI NPUs. But it wasn't until July that the formal review process for the AMD XDNA driver began as the necessary prerequisite for getting picked up into the mainline Linux kernel. On Friday the fourth iteration of those patches for review were published as it hopefully is closing in on landing within the mainline kernel...

AMD XDNA Linux Driver Updated As It Nears The Upstream Kernel  Phoronix

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS is out with their newest monthly development summary to highlight advancements made to this unique OS...