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Linux-powered Serpent OS reaches its first major development milestone — download it now!  BetaNews

postmarketOS 24.12 Released with KDE Plasma Mobile 6.2.4, GNOME Shell 46  9to5Linux

This Linux distro I recommend to power users takes a unique approach to OS design  ZDNet

ScummVM brings classic PC games to SailfishOS (Linux-based smartphone OS)  Liliputing

Four years ago already the Raspberry Pi 400 was announced as a Raspberry Pi keyboard computer built around the Raspberry Pi 4, passively-cooled, and all packaged up nicely in a keyboard form factor. Announced earlier this month was the Raspberry Pi 500 as the successor and now built around the Raspberry Pi 5. For $90 USD this keyboard computer is a very versatile and convenient compact Linux PC.

Raspberry Pi 500 Delivers Great Performance, Convenient Upgrade To The Raspberry Pi 400 Review  Phoronix

Raspberry Pi 500 Delivers Great Performance, Convenient Upgrade To The Raspberry Pi 400 Review  Phoronix

How to use Microsoft's Copilot AI on Linux  ZDNet

Linux 6.14 Looks To Land Rust PCI / Platform Device Driver Support  Phoronix

The patch series in the works for a while to provide the necessary kernel abstractions for the Rust programming language to actually implement real device drivers looks like it will finally premiere in the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...

Serpent OS Enters Alpha with GNOME and COSMIC Spins, Powered by Linux 6.12 LTS  9to5Linux

5 biggest Linux and open-source stories of 2024: From AI arguments to security close calls  ZDNet

What Is Linux Mint, and Why Would You Use It?  Yahoo! Voices

What Is Linux Mint, and Why Would You Use It?  How-To Geek

It's been a few months since hearing anything new out of Serpent OS, the original Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty, who started Solus Linux and also was involved with Intel's Clear Linux. As a Christmas surprise, Serpent OS has now reached the alpha stage of development...

Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux Distribution Goes Into Alpha  Phoronix

Eric Biggers of Google who has pursued countless CPU optimizations within the Linux kernel's crypto subsystem over the years has some noteworthy optimizations coming for AMD processors with the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...

Faster AES-GCM & AES-XTS Crypto For AMD CPUs With Linux 6.14  Phoronix

Intel engineers are working on contributing upstream support to the GNU Debugger (GDB) for debugging software running on Intel GPUs...

Linux 6.13 cleared out more than 100k lines of old and unmaintained code while that end of year code cleaning isn't stopping... With Linux 6.14 at least another old and seemingly useless driver is being gutted from the input subsystem: evbug...