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TLAC Aims To Be An Open-Source Alternative To Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Systems  Phoronix

Crysis 2 Maximum Edition - Linux Intel I5 8250/UHD 620 #benchmark  YouTube

In time for the Mesa 26.2 stable release expected out in August, the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver is now exposing the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap descriptor heap support by default...

RADV Enables Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support By Default  Phoronix

OpenAPV, the Academy Software Foundation project that provides a reference implementation of the Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec is out with a new feature update...

Kodi 22 Beta Improves Linux Support for Remote Keys and HDR Profile Support  9to5Linux

How to make Linux look like MacOS for free - with a few simple ZorinOS tweaks  ZDNET

Critical ‘DirtyClone’ Flaw Grants Root Privileges Across Linux Ecosystem  Open Source For You

It’s Linux, On A Sega Megadrive  Hackaday

Linux 7.2's first release candidate gets off to a good start  Neowin

CVE-2026-53325: Critical Linux Kernel AMD64 AGP Driver Vulnerability Leads to Virtualization Denial of Service (DoS)  Rescana

Archinstall 4.4's new color-coded install preview makes installing Arch easier than ever before  XDA

Drauger OS 7.8 aims to turn Ubuntu into a gaming Linux distro with KDE Plasma  XDA

Mageia 10 ISOs are now available for this Linux distribution long ago derived from Mandriva Linux and in turn the legendary Mandrake Linux...

Mageia 10 Released For This Linux Distribution Carrying On The Mandrake Legacy  Phoronix

Ahead of the July 2026 ISO refresh for Arch Linux, a new Archinstall 4.4 release has been tagged for this text-based and very convenient installer for Arch Linux...

Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.4 Adds Dank Material Shell + Niri Desktop Option  Phoronix

Run a 30-year old version of GIMP on modern Linux via Flatpak  OMG! Ubuntu

AI is rapidly transforming how system administrators and developers interact with their environments. In 2025, we introduced the command line assistant, an optional tool available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that allows users to ask questions and get natural language troubleshooting guidance right from the terminal.We're now announcing the next step in our AI-driven systems management journey—the availability of the goose AI agent in the RHEL extensions repository for RHEL 9.8 and RHEL 10.2. A project of the Agentic AI Foundation, goose is a flexible, open source AI agent that can be

Every telecommunications service provider is operationalizing AI right now. Use cases include customer care-bots, network operation co-pilots, and managed AI-as-a-service (AIaaS) for external enterprise customers and others. The uncomfortable part is correlation of use case with business case, where the key factor is the cost of the AI accelerator, whether that's a graphics processing unit (GPU), tensor processing unit (TPU), or neural processing unit (NPU). Cost per inference decides whether these AI accelerators improve profit margins or erode them; to keep costs down, the AI model you sele