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Galaxy Tab S11 Series Can Actually Run Linux Apps  SammyGuru

Linux 6.18 Updating The Baseline For Marking Intel CPU Microcode As Outdated  Phoronix

Introduced this year with the Linux 6.16 kernel was the new functionality for reporting to users when running on outdated Intel CPU microcode since it can pose security vulnerability issues and/or functionality problems. The Linux kernel support for propagating this "old_microcode" reporting via sysfs relies on a static list of microcode versions corresponding to different Intel CPU generations. For the Linux 6.18 kernel this list is being updated to reflect modern baselines for Intel recommendations on CPU microcode...

The Galaxy Tab S11's best new feature turns it into a powerful Linux computer  Android Authority

Is this Arch distro the 'ultimate' Linux? That depends on your GPU  ZDNET

Steam Autumn Sale 2025 is live now with tons of discounts  GamingOnLinux

Linux Foundation Announces Contribution of Newton by Disney Research, Google DeepMind and NVIDIA to Accelerate Open Robot Learning  The Malaysian Reserve

WineConf as the annual Wine developer conference, for this open-source software allowing Windows games and applications to run on Linux, took place this weekend in The Hague. Several interesting talks took place including the usual keynote by Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard...

How to setup OpenMW for modern Morrowind on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Android 16 QPR2 makes the Linux Terminal way more useful with expanded file access  Android Authority

How Do You Distro Hop?  Hackaday

Linux 6.18 Power Management Brings Panther Lake Power Slider & New Drivers  Phoronix

Linux ACPI and power management maintainer Rafael Wysocki today sent out all of the feature updates and changes intended for the now-started Linux 6.18 merge window. There are some new Intel additions as well as for the growing range of different ARM-based SoCs and other hardware...

I install these 11 apps on every new Linux system, and you should, too - here's why  ZDNET

4 reasons why Qubes OS is the coolest Linux distro out there  XDA

Which OS Is Best: Windows, macOS, Linux, or ChromeOS?  PCMag

AI Comes to Open Source eBook Reader Calibre  It's FOSS News

5 Reasons You Should Move To Linux Instead Of Windows 11  SlashGear

NVIDIA, Disney & Google Contribute Open-Source Newton Engine To The Linux Foundation  Phoronix

Earlier this year NVIDIA announced Newton as an open-source physics engine focused on robotic simulations. This physics engine was developed by NVIDIA in cooperation with Google DeepMind and Disney Research. Today it's been contributed to the Linux Foundation...