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With the newest Mesa 25.1-devel Git code merged today the Panfrost Gallium3D and PanVK Vulkan drivers for Arm Mali open-source graphics are supporting Mali 5th Gen gen 1 (v12) and gen 2 (v13) devices...

Intel's P-Core only Bartlett Lake chip inches closer to reality with new Linux patch  Tom's Hardware

Fedora Linux 42 Is Out Now, Powered by Linux Kernel 6.14 and GNOME 48 Desktop  9to5Linux

Fedora 42 is out today as a fabulous update to this prominent leading-edge Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat. I've been running Fedora 42 on several systems already -- including upgrading my main production system to it -- and it's been working out very well. Fedora 42 is packed full of new features and software updates making it a great H1'2025 Linux operating system release...

Fedora 42 Released As A Fantastic Update To This Leading-Edge Linux Distribution  Phoronix

Nitrux Project Introduces NX AppHub, a New System to Provide Apps for Nitrux  9to5Linux

A public alpha of the 'semi-immutable' Manjaro Summit Linux is now available  GamingOnLinux

There's the possibility raised that the mainline Linux kernel might remove its file-system kernel drivers for Apple HFS and HFS+ this year...

The Intel Video Processing Library GPU Runtime "VPL-GPU-RT" as the run-time component to the Intel VPL API for video processing with a variety of video encoders/decoders and filters is preparing to end mainline support for Intel graphics prior to Tiger Lake...

Save the world from insidious and cruel demons in Bosorka with a Linux version available now  GamingOnLinux

The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) intended for online gaming, IP telephony, multimedia streaming, and other online real-time purposes for this transport layer protocol is expected to be stripped out of the Linux kernel with the upcoming v6.16 cycle...

Manjaro Linux 25 now available for download  BetaNews

Dead Pixels from 2012 gets a surprise update with Linux and Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

In addition to yesterday's alpha release of the semi-immutable Majaro Summit distribution, Manjaro Linux has now resolved Manjaro 25.0 as the newest version of this (non-immutable) Arch Linux based desktop operating system...

Manjaro 25.0 Released With Upgrades To Linux 6.12 Plus GNOME 48 & KDE Plasma 6.3  Phoronix

Download NetBeans IDE (free) for Windows, macOS and Linux  Gizmodo

Manjaro 25.0 “Zetar” Released with Xfce 4.20, GNOME 48, and KDE Plasma 6.3  9to5Linux

11 Vibe Coding Tools to 10x Your Development on Linux Desktop  It's FOSS

Oracle today debuted the newest version of their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel "UEK" designed to be paired with their RHEL-derived Oracle Linux operating system as a heavily-patched version of the Linux kernel. With today's release of UEK 8 they have rebased atop the current Linux 6.12 long-term support codebase...

Oracle Releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8 Powered By Linux 6.12 LTS  Phoronix