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Earlier this year, we launched the Red Hat AI quickstart catalog, a collection of ready-to-run blueprints designed to help organizations move from talking about AI to using large language models (LLMs) to solve real-world problems. This provides systems integrators and architects with example AI solutions that Red Hat engineering has tested and streamlined for easy deployment.Once you've successfully rolled out an interactive solution on Red Hat AI, however, the next question is usually, "How do I protect this in the real world?"To help answer this, we've expanded the AI quickstarts catalog wi

Exclusive-EQT eyes potential $6 billion sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say By Reuters  Investing.com

Last week was a statement by System76 regarding recent age verification laws in California and Colorado among other US states that could have a profound impact on Linux distributions and other open-source software. The Colorado legislation is especially pressing to System76 considering that is where they are based. Fortunately, they aren't taking this lightly and there is some hope that at least in Colorado open-source software could be excluded...

Exclusive: EQT eyes potential $6 billion sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say  Reuters

EQT eyes potential $6 billion sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say  TradingView

One of the best Arch-based Linux distros out there just got even easier to set up  XDA

Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 Linux driver beta as their first release in the R595 series for Linux and it's running very well in initial testing. Today as part of their Vulkan developer beta program, they have released the NVIDIA 595.44.02 driver that brings some new Vulkan API features...

My Bluetooth headphones kept breaking on Linux until I fixed this one thing  MakeUseOf

The excellent Ghostty terminal app just got an upgrade on Linux and Mac  How-To Geek

NVIDIA Adds Official Support For RHEL-Compatible Distributions Like AlmaLinux With CUDA 13.2  Phoronix

With CUDA 13.2 that is now shipping, NVIDIA has provided official support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible distributions/downstreams like AlmaLinux to CUDA. With this official NVIDIA CUDA support for these RHEL-compatible distributions, NVIDIA is also allowing the NVIDIA packages to be distributed directly from the OS package repositories...

Linux Encryption Usage Statistics 2026  commandlinux.com

DNS Server Market Share Statistics 2026  commandlinux.com

PlayStation 5 Modded Into A Linux Gaming PC Runs Ray-Traced GTA 5 Smooth As Silk  HotHardware

Modder helps Sony unwittingly beat Valve to the punch: 'I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine'  PC Gamer

Canonical for a while has been developing Authd as an authentication service for external cloud-based identity providers. Authd was designed from the ground-up to provide secure management of identity and access for Ubuntu systems while only with next month's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release is it actually hitting the universe archive...

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Officially Supporting Cloud-Based Authentication With Authd  Phoronix

Intel just published the XeSS 3.0 SDK to GitHub as the newest version of their Xe Super Sampling AI-enhanced upscaling technology for gamers. Sadly though it remains proprietary software and only with native support for Windows...

Intel Publishes XeSS 3 SDK To GitHub - Still As Windows-Only Binaries  Phoronix

Last week NVIDIA released the 595.45.04 beta Linux driver as their first public build in the R595 release branch. The NVIDIA R595 Linux driver is bringing a number of Vulkan driver improvements, HDR enhancements, DRI3 v1.2 support, and a variety of other improvements. Benchmarking the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux driver the past few days on GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" have been showing some nice incremental performance improvements over the current NVIDIA 590 driver stable series.