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Synex Server: A New Debian Based Linux Distro With Native ZFS Installation Support  Phoronix

System76 updates its affordable Ubuntu Linux 'Lemur' laptop with Intel Kaby Lake  BetaNews

On Friday AMD sent out another set of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver patches for queuing in DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle kicking off in February...

Important AMDGPU & AMDKFD Driver Improvements Readied For Linux 6.20~7.0  Phoronix

Own a Raspberry Pi? You need to download this Raspbian Linux OS update - here's what's new  BetaNews

Developer Claims Photoshop Installers Now Work on Linux Using Wine  Linuxiac

Podcast #852 - 9850X3D Launch Imminent, RTX SUPER Delay, 8GB GPUs, Zoicware, New SK Hynix Plant, Linux malware and MORE  PC Perspective

You don’t need a gaming distro — these Linux tweaks matter more  MakeUseOf

January 17 tech news roundup: Linux Mint 22.3 released, ChatGPT translate announced, Samsung Internet browser for Windows released, Firefox 147 update released  FileHippo

The new Linux Mint, Wine version 11, Raspberry Pi's HAT upgrade, and more: Linux news roundup  How-To Geek

FreeBSD 15.0 had been aiming to offer a KDE desktop installation option as part of the FreeBSD OS installer. This initiative as part of the FreeBSD laptop support enhancements project didn't pan out in time for FreeBSD 15.0 but now they are working on getting the installer option ready for FreeBSD 15.1. Adding a NVIDIA GPU driver option to the FreeBSD installer was also recently carried out...

I replaced my Windows workflow with Linux Mint and it was easier than I imagined  How-To Geek

CVE-2026-0915 was published on Friday as a security issue with the GNU C Library "glibc" for code introduced 30 years ago. The latest Glibc Git code is now patched for this issue introduced in 1996...

CVE-2026-0915: GNU C Library Fixes A Security Issue Present Since 1996  Phoronix

KDE developers have been quite busy this week in preparing for the upcoming Plasma 6.6 release in February while also beginning to land features for what will be the Plasma 6.7 desktop...

The Shotcut 26.1 beta was released overnight as the newest version of this Qt6-based, cross-platform video editing solution. Standing out the most with this new development release are some new GPU-accelerated hardware decode options for aiming to help speed-up this free software video editor...

Adobe Photoshop can now install on Linux after a Redditor discovers a Wine fix  VideoCardz.com

As part of the GNOME Foundation funded Digital Wellbeing project, the GNOME Shell for GNOME 50 has merged options to prevent unlocking the desktop session past their bed time. The intent here is on rounding out GNOME's parental controls functionality...

Linux closes the professional gap as Adobe Creative Cloud installer finally runs on Wine  Neowin

My favorite Linux desktop environment is getting microphone controls Windows wishes it had  XDA