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7 Linux Apps I Install on Every New PC  How-To Geek

These 5 Linux distros are perfect for reviving PCs that can't handle Windows 11  xda-developers.com

I Played This Free Linux Skills Game and Learned 6 New Commands  How-To Geek

Kapitano (Linux Antivirus Scanner) Developer Abandons Ship  OMG! Ubuntu

AMD Kernel Graphics Driver Exceeds 5.9 Million Lines In Linux 6.16  Phoronix

The modern AMD Kernel graphics driver consisting of AMDGPU, the AMDKFD compute code, and associated infrastructure continues to easily be the largest mainline open-source driver. With the Linux 6.16 kernel debuting as stable as soon as later today, the AMD kernel graphics driver cracks the 5.9 million line threshold. In comparison, the entire Linux kernel source tree comes in at..

In advance of the Linux 6.17 merge window expected to open soon following the Linux 6.16 release, all of the SoC updates have been submitted to Linus Torvalds for this next kernel version...

Linux 6.17 Introducing Support For The NVIDIA Tegra T264/Thor, New RISC-V SoCs  Phoronix

A few days back I wrote about Canonical releasing new Ubuntu 25.04 "Concept" ISOs for the Snapdragon X laptops with the new install images being re-based to the Linux 6.16 kernel and expanding the device support. But as I found out from my own testing, depending upon the laptop the support was still less than ideal. Since then there have been two more ISO releases and addressing one of my show-stopping problems albeit encountering another...

New Ubuntu Concept Snapdragon X Laptop ISOs Published - Your Mileage May Vary  Phoronix

New FBI Warning — Windows And Linux Users Must Apply 2FA Now  Forbes

GNU Binutils 2.45 was released on Sunday morning as the newest version of this set of open-source binary tools...

AMD SEV Optimizations Ready For Linux 6.17 Plus A 10x Improvement For Intel TDX  Phoronix

There are a few AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization improvements on the way for the Linux 6.17 kernel worth noting...

Shotcut 25.07 is out today as the newest feature release for this prominent open-source and cross-platform video editing solution...

My favorite Linux graphic desktop environment will soon prod you if your printer ink is low  xda-developers.com

Assuming no objections are raised by Linus Torvalds, an early pull request has been submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window to address an obscure kernel limitation that has been in place going back all the way to 1993 during the Linux v0.99 kernel days...

My Laptop Couldn't Upgrade to Windows 11, So I Switched to Linux  How-To Geek

Is the Linux kernel moving toward "vibe coding"? Rules for using AI assistants are coming soon.  Red Hot Cyber

This past week Qualcomm sent out a set of 17 patches for the MSM DRM kernel graphics driver for enabling support for the Inter Frame Power Collapse (IFPC) feature with the X1-85 GPU found in the current Snapdragon X laptops...