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GNU Linux-Libre 6.15 Kernel Is Out for Those Who Seek 100% Freedom for Their PCs  9to5Linux

Armbian 25.5 Released with Support for Banana Pi M2+ and BeagleBone AI-64 SBCs  9to5Linux

Hands-On with Rhino Linux's New UBXI KDE 6 Desktop  It's FOSS News

I virtualized ESXi using Proxmox... and it works better than I expected  XDA

While there has been the Sony PlayStation 5 DualSense controller support for Linux going back several years and has been improved upon with more recent versions of the Linux kernel, there's been some shortcomings around the audio jack handling with the DualSense controller. A new patch series out today aims to enhance that capability...

New Linux Patches Properly Handle The Audio Jack On Sony's PS5 DualSense Controller  Phoronix

Fan-made PC port of Star Fox 64 gets a Linux version in a big update  GamingOnLinux

Following last night's release of the Linux 6.15 stable kernel, the FSF Latin America team has released GNU Linux-libre 6.15-gnu for their downstream kernel that strips out the ability to load non-free firmware/microcode and other elements of the Linux kernel deemed for not aligning with their software freedoms...

Armbian 25.5 is out today as the newest version of this Debian-based Linux distribution catering primarily to ARM and RISC-V single board computers...

Armbian 25.5 Adds Support For Newer Single Board Computers  Phoronix

Brickadia is like Roblox and LEGO combined and it arrives July 11  GamingOnLinux

The Rust project this morning published a status update on some of their top project goals, including for enhancing the async Rust experience to make it closer to the sync programming experience as well as stabilizing the tooling needed for Rust programming use within the Linux kernel...

Rust Makes Progress On Async Rust Experience, Stabilizing Tooling For Rust In The Kernel  Phoronix

Among the early pull requests sent out today with the Linux 6.16 merge window now open are all of the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) subsystem updates...

New AMD SPI Driver Going Upstream In Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Mozilla Firefox 139.0 release binaries have been pushed out to mirrors today ahead of the formal announcement tomorrow. With the Firefox 139 browser update comes a few new features worth mentioning...

Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet has already sent out the plethora of feature updates destined for the now-open Linux 6.16 kernel cycle. There has been a lot of work going on for Bcachefs that is ready for merging in Linux 6.16 with several performance improvements, continued self-healing / recovery work, improved error messages, and more for this copy-on-write file-system...

Bcachefs: Performance Improvements, Recovery Work & Nicer Error Messages For Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Merged for Linux 5.12 back in early 2021 was a new dynamic preemption mode. Finally now for H2'2025, the IBM POWER CPU ISA kernel code is supporing dynamic preemption...

POWER CPUs Ready With Dynamic Preemption For Linux 6.16  Phoronix