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10 Years Of Google Chromebooks Bring Increased Capabilities  About Chromebooks

The most versatile Linux distributions you can install right now - and I've tried them all  ZDNET

AMD EPYC 9965 "Turin" 2P Performance Seeing Some Gains On Linux 6.18  Phoronix

Beyond packing many exciting new features and changes, Linux 6.18 is expected to become this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version. Assuming the Linux 6.18 LTS designation, this next kernel version will see lots of use in enterprise environments and thus recently carried out some AMD EPYC 9965 2P "Turin" benchmarks between Linux 6.17 stable and the Linux 6.18 development kernel state...

Qilin Ransomware Deploys Hybrid Linux-Windows Attacks via WSL and BYOVD  WebProNews

OpenIndiana 2025.10 ISOs were published on Sunday as the newest half-year update to this Illumos (OpenSolaris) derived platform...

The only antivirus I trust on Linux - and it's free to use  ZDNET

AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 Linux Performance For Single & Dual GPU Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Today the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 is officially shipping as the company's new RDNA4-based offering designed for AI workloads and priced at $1299+ USD. The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 offers 32GB of GDDR6 video memory and features 128 AI accelerators and rated for 96 TFLOPs peak half-precision compute, up to 1531 TOPS INT4 sparse, and has a 300 Watt TDP. Here are the initial benchmarks of the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 under Linux with ROCm 7.0 and testing both in single and dual R9700 graphics card configurations.

Mac sales explode – but it's thanks to Microsoft killing off Windows 10  TechRadar

Lenovo Legion devices running Linux set to get new 'Extreme' mode that fixes previously-broken power limits — only approved devices will be able to run the maximum performance mode  Tom's Hardware

Cross-platform ransomware: Qilin weaponizes Linux binaries against Windows hosts  csoonline.com

Linux variant of Qilin Ransomware targets Windows via remote management tools and BYOVD  Security Affairs

Turbosqueeze 1.0 was announced today as a new real-time, multi-threaded compression solution designed for C/C++ programs and aiming to compete with the likes of Zstd, LZ4, and Snappy compression...

Sent out on Sunday to the Linux kernel mailing list was a proposal for a new Direct rendering Manager (DRM) client for providing "splash screen" type functionality such as for embedded systems and more. But with Plymouth in user-space already being the dominant solution here and upstream developers tending to prefer such functionality in user-space instead, its future remains uncertain with some developers already questioning the value of this proposed solution...

The PanVK driver for modern Arm Mali Vulkan driver support within Mesa has tapped into Mesa's on-disk shader cache functionality as well as an in-memory cache to provide for a better experience with this open-source driver...

In addition to the patches sent out this weekend by Intel for Xe driver preparations for multi-device Shared Virtual Machine (multi-device SVM), another notable patch series making it out this weekend for the Intel Xe open-source kernel graphics driver is support for mapping DMA-BUFs via IOV interconnects...

Qilin Ransomware Combines Linux Payload With BYOVD Exploit in Hybrid Attack  The Hacker News

Ready to ditch Windows? I found a powerful mini PC that's optimized for Linux  ZDNET

Community Strikes Back: 12 Open Source Projects Born from Resistance  It's FOSS