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Intel Lists Four New “Battlemage” GPUs For Mesa Graphics Driver On Linux, Indicating Next-Gen Gaming GPUs Are On The Way  Wccftech

New PumaBot Botnet Targets Linux IoT Devices to Steal SSH Credentials and Mine Crypto  The Hacker News

All of the sound/audio driver changes have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel that include new AMD and Intel hardware support among other new audio hardware as well as various other improvements...

Intel Wildcat Lake Audio Support Merged For Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Linux Kernel 6.16 Adds X86_NATIVE_CPU Configuration Option  WebProNews

PumaBot: Novel Botnet Targeting IoT Surveillance Devices  Darktrace

Retro dungeon crawler Brany Skeldalu gets a Linux version and source code re-release  GamingOnLinux

Intel Releases Updated Battlemage Driver Preview Support For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS  Phoronix

While there is nice out-of-the-box support for the new Intel Arc "Battlemage" graphics cards on the new Ubuntu 25.04 release, if you prefer running the Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release there isn't complete support until the next hardware enablement "HWE" update. But Intel in cooperation with Canonical has now published a new graphics driver preview stack for enabling better Intel Arc B-Series support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users...

SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S  GamingOnLinux

Microsoft's Azure Linux Preps For NVIDIA GB200 Servers  Phoronix

Microsoft on Tuesday released a new version of Azure Linux, their in-house Linux distribution that is used for a variety of purposes from the Azure cloud to powering other Microsoft services...

Three ways to run Windows apps on a Linux box  theregister.com

Hobbyists continue to tinker around with the Motorola 68000 "m68k" support within the Linux kernel and even landing a fix now in 2025 for the vintage Macintosh II...

If You Aren't a Linux User, What's Stopping You From Switching?  How-To Geek

Archinstall 3.0.7 is out today as the newest feature update to this text-based Arch Linux installer that makes it quick and easy to deploy a new Arch Linux installation...

Arch Linux Installer Adds Option To Configure Btrfs Snapshots Post-Install  Phoronix

Archinstall 3.0.7 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Adds Support for Btrfs Snapshots  9to5Linux

Employee of Panasonic Automotive Systems appointed Linux Foundation Japan Evangelist  Panasonic Newsroom Global

Miss Apple's Toucbar? Flexbar Brings This Experience to Linux  It's FOSS News