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Linus Torvalds just merged another set of pull requests to Git for the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel. With the latest round of merges, there are two separate AMD changes worth highlighting...

AMD Zen 6 RAS Preparation, AMD SDCI Features Merged For Linux 6.19  Phoronix

Linux usage reaches an all time high on Steam  How-To Geek

Open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb published a blog post today outlining their work on bringing their Coreboot-downstream Dasharo to the ASRock Rack SPC741D8/2L2T, a recent server motherboard for supporting Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids and Emerald Rapids processors...

An important set of patches were just merged a few minutes ago to Linux Git for the ongoing Linux 6.19 kernel with some important performance implications...

Linux Mint 22.3 Beta Will Be Released This Month  OMG! Ubuntu

The lightweight Linux distro every media junkie should try - and why  ZDNET

Meet Bazzite: Windows 10’s demise: Linux hype, déjà vu  Windows Central

Merged as part of the objtool changes for the Linux 6.19 kernel is introducing the "klp-build" script as a new solution to generate livepatch modules using a source .patch file as the input. This klp-build effort was spearheaded by Josh Poimboeuf with ideas learned from the out-of-tree Kpatch project over the past decade...

Homebrew can now help you install Flatpaks, too  How-To Geek

VLC 3.0.22 Released with AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler, dav1d-all-layers Option  9to5Linux

Linux Reaches Record 3.20% Share in Steam’s November 2025 Survey  WebProNews

TornadoVM 2.0 is out today as the newest feature release for this OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in that allows Java programs to run on heterogeneous hardware. TornadoVM targets continue to be OpenCL, NVIDIA PTX, and SPIR-V compatible devices for a range of accelerator support for use from conventional Java code...

Valve's Steam Machine has one big advantage over the old Steam Box  Polygon

The next Linux Mint release has a name and several new features  How-To Geek

I found a powerful Microsoft Office alternative that doesn't push AI - and it's free  ZDNET

I’ve used this Neovim setup for years, and it’s perfect for programmers  How-To Geek

Valve is working on a "Lepton" Android compatibility layer for Linux  Windows Central

5 Linux networking commands everyone should know  XDA

Linux has maintained a default 4MB minimum writeback chunk size but with the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel it will allow file-systems to override that minimum value. This in turn can help avoid fragmentation and yield a better experience for zoned rotation media and other uses...