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Love to customize your Linux desktop? This lightweight distro is great fun for newbies and experts  ZDNET

For the past few months have been an ambitious proposal to replace FBCON with the user-space KMSCON as the default VT console starting on Fedora 44. Unfortunately, this and a few other features have now been delayed to the Fedora 45 release six months later...

For many large companies, AI is on every agenda, yet many leaders are still trying to make sense of what to do next. A big reason for this uncertainty is that huge amounts of data are still locked away in separate departments or stuck in systems that don't talk to each other, making it hard to turn that data into real value.The shift toward open collaborationIn 2026, the most forward-looking companies are starting to let go of the instinct to hold data tightly. Instead, they are focusing on what you might call a resilience advantage: working in open, collaborative networks that increase streng

The latest updates to Red Hat OpenShift bring significant enhancements to monitoring and troubleshooting directly within OpenShift. Red Hat OpenShift observability has evolved into a highly integrated ecosystem that combines metrics, logs, traces, and network telemetry into a single experience. It removes the tool sprawl typically associated with Kubernetes, replacing fragmented dashboards with a centralized, hardened, and supported platform.Cluster observability operator 1.4The cluster observability operator (COO) acts as a "meta-operator". Its primary job is to deploy and manage independent

Nitrux 6.0 Released with Linux 6.19, New Login Screen, Rescue Mode, and More  9to5Linux

I installed NixOS on my daily driver, but I went back to Fedora in a week  XDA

Nitrux 6.0 Released With Linux Kernel 6.19  Linuxiac

AMD DPTCi Driver Posted For Linux To Better Enhance Ryzen Gaming Handhelds  Phoronix

A request for comments (RFC) patch series was posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list to introduce the AMD Dynamic Power and Thermal Configuration Interface "DPTCi" driver. With this driver it would provide better upstream Linux kernel support for tuning the power / performance / thermals of modern Ryzen-powered gaming handheld devices. Though don't get too excited right away as the driver was assembled in part by AI that is already causing a bit of a ruckus on the LKML due to lack of disclosure...

This might be the most interesting new Linux distro right now  MakeUseOf

Google announced today that beginning later this year they are moving the Chrome web browser from its four week release cycle down to a two week release cadence...

IoT Specialist Golioth Gets Snapped Up by Linux Goliath Canonical  Hackster.io

Intel Rendering Toolkit & OpenVINO AI GPU Performance On Intel Panther Lake's Xe3 B390  Phoronix

Over the past month I have been running a lot of Linux benchmarks on Intel's new Panther Lake using the Core Ultra X7 358H and its Xe3-based Arc B390 Graphics. The Arc B390 on Linux has been quite interesting with its OpenGL and Vulkan graphics performance compared to prior generations of Intel graphics plus the Intel Compute Runtime / OpenCL performance too. In today's article are more benchmarks of the latter in looking at the Intel Rendering Toolkit and OpenVINO AI performance on the Xe3 B390 Panther Lake graphics compared to prior Lunar Lake and Meteor Lake.

My Linux PC was lagging until I tried this boring fix  MakeUseOf

Oracle Linux-based Security Onion 2.4.210 launches with Onion AI local model support  Notebookcheck

BunsenLabs Carbon keeps the CrunchBang flame alive with Debian 13  theregister.com

Systemd-analyze Pinpoints Linux Boot Delays in Seconds  findarticles.com

I tried using "open-source Windows," but it still doesn't measure up to the real thing  How-To Geek

Run Linux shell commands from your MIDI keyboard  Adafruit