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8 Games You Can Play in Your Ubuntu Terminal  How-To Geek

While years ago it was a annual ritual and closest thing to a vacation around here (even though the daily original content persisted), the Phoronix pilgrimage/meet-up at Oktoberfest in Munich sadly remains on hiatus. Web publishing operations remain difficult given the state of the industry and rampant ad-block use make even daily operations tight. But for those wishing to show their support for Phoronix during this autumn/fest period, there is the annual Phoronix Premium sale special for those wishing to help the site at a discounted rate to enjoy ad-free viewing, multi-page articles on a single page, native dark mode, and other benefits...

Rather than needing to parse package/history log files manually and akin to functionality provided by Red Hat's DNF, a merge request is pending to add a built-in history command for APT...

AMD ISP4 Driver Still Pending Review For The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

When it comes to AMD's incredible Strix Halo platform, the leading laptop option is the HP ZBook Ultra G1a. The HP ZBook Ultra G1a works great overall on Linux with the main caveat being the web camera due to making use of AMD's latest SoC capabilities for offloaded image processing. The AMD ISP4 open-source driver fixes that for the ZBook Ultra G1a and is also important for future laptop models employing AMD's ISP IP...

The Big iPhone Revamp, Lots of Linux Updates, and More: News Roundup  How-To Geek

With Bcachefs now being "externally maintained" with the upstream kernel not accepting any further feature changes for now to this copy-on-write file-system, Bcachefs is pursuing a nice DKMS experience for distributing updated file-system kernel driver support out-of-tree. Convenient DKMS Debian packages of Bcachefs are now available on Ubuntu and Debian Linux platforms...

DKMS Packages For Bcachefs Are Now Available On Debian & Ubuntu  Phoronix

While KDE Plasma 6.5 beta released this week, KDE developers have been busy landing last-minute minor features and fixes into this next desktop release...

Proton Experimental adds fixes for various games not running on CPUs with high core counts  GamingOnLinux

BCacheFS Is Now A DKMS Module After Exile From The Linux Kernel  Hackaday

Zorin OS 18 Beta is Now Available  Thurrott.com

Linux Patch Optimizes Networking, Cuts Latency by 20% in Data Centers  WebProNews

3 Fedora KDE Plasma features that stop me going back to Windows  XDA

I tried cutting Windows out of my life with WinBoat, but I just can't recommend it  XDA

With Windows 10 support ending soon, Zorin OS 18 Beta arrives as a the ultimate alternative to Windows 11  BetaNews

4 reasons you should be using rootless Docker on Linux  xda-developers.com

Zorin OS 18 Beta Released with Refreshed Look, Advanced Window Tiling, and More  9to5Linux

Tor-based Tails Linux 7.0 Has Arrived: Here's What's New  How-To Geek

Ubuntu 25.10 beta comes with the Linux 6.17 kernel and more  Notebookcheck