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Linux Mint Continues Working On Its libAdwaita Fork, Fingerprint Authentication  Phoronix

Linux Mint 22.2 Will Feature Fingerprint Authentication with Fingwit App  9to5Linux

I replaced my Linux system with this $200 Windows mini PC - and it left me impressed  ZDNet

This tiny Linux computer, complete with screen, is smaller than a passport photo, and I'm in love with it  XDA

All of the kernel build system "Kbuild" updates were merged today for the nearly-over Linux 6.16 merge window that is expected to conclude tomorrow with the Linux 6.16-rc1 release. Notable with the Kbuild pull is the introduction of the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES helper...

9 Open Source Operating Systems That Aren't Linux  How-To Geek

Liberux NEXX: Linux smartphone with kill switches, extensive connectivity and 32 GB RAM  Notebookcheck

NumPy 2.3 is out today as the latest release of this widely-used library for scientific computing. Notable with NumPy 2.3 is finally adding some parallelization support via OpenMP...

The RISC-V architecture feature updates were merged on Friday for the Linux 6.16 merge window that is set to end on Sunday with the Linux 6.16-rc1 release...

ChatGPT Patched A BIOS Binary, And It Worked  Hackaday

Kali GPT- AI Assistant That Transforms Penetration Testing on Kali Linux  CybersecurityNews

It was just earlier this week that Mesa 25.1.2 arrived as the newest bi-weekly bug-fix release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. Coming out today is an emergency bug-fix release to fix a regression affecting AMD Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4 graphics card owners...

Mesa 25.1.3 Released As Emergency Update For Radeon RX 9000 Series Linux Users  Phoronix

7 reasons I chose Btrfs over ZFS for my home NAS  XDA

Micro Machines  Hackster.io

No More Difficult Linux Gentoo Installs: Redcore Makes It Easy  The New Stack

Vulkan 1.4.317 was made public on Friday with a number of exciting new extensions, including VP9 video decoding for Vulkan Video, 8-bit floating-point data type support, and other additions...

For those making use of GNOME Papers as the increasingly popular document viewer app for the GNOME desktop, a major rework was merged to enhance the annotations experience...

8 things you must try with the Linux Terminal app on your Android phone  Android Authority

June 7 tech news roundup: Windows 11 will stop prompting EU users to use Edge, YouTube Premium Lite will show more ads, KDE is inviting Windows 10 users to switch to Linux  FileHippo