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Linux 6.12 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel  Phoronix

Redox OS Makes Progress On Emulator Support, Better Documentation & Hardware Fixes  Phoronix

The Rust-based Redox OS original open-source operating system project is out with a new status report to detail the enhancements they have made over the past several weeks...

Free to play monster-hunting game Dauntless now on Steam and works on Steam Deck, desktop Linux needs a quick fix  GamingOnLinux

Linux Kernel 6.11 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS  9to5Linux

Alpine Linux 3.21 Released with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS, Initial LoongArch64 Support  9to5Linux

Linux 4.19, the Last Supported Kernel of the Linux 4.x Series, Reaches End of Life  9to5Linux

It’s Official: Linux Kernel 6.12 Will Be LTS, Supported for “Multiple Years”  9to5Linux

Valve publishes Powered by SteamOS brand guidelines — logo readied for third-party hardware bundled with this Linux-based OS  Tom's Hardware

NVIDIA 565 Linux Graphics Driver Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 565.77 stable driver for Linux released  GamingOnLinux

System76 today released the newest development/testing version of their Rust-based desktop environment designed for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...

COSMIC Alpha 4 Released For System76's Rust-Based Desktop  Phoronix

Prime Gaming December 5th edition for Steam Deck / Linux - a bunch of special extras were added this week  GamingOnLinux

For the past month and a half the NVIDIA R565 Linux driver series has been in public beta with a number of (X)Wayland improvements, DMA-BUF enhancements, VKD3D fixes, and a variety of other enhancements. Today the NVIDIA 565.77 Linux driver was released as the first stable build in the series...

NVIDIA 565.77 Linux Driver Released As First Stable R565 Build  Phoronix

GEEKOM GT1 Mega review with Ubuntu 24.10 – Part 3: Linux on an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H “Meteor Lake” mini PC  CNX Software

Alpine Linux 3.21 is out today as the newest version of this simple, lightweight, and security-minded Linux distribution that is popular for use within containerized environments, embedded systems, and more...

Alpine Linux 3.21 Released With Linux 6.12 & GCC 14, LoongArch CPU Support  Phoronix

Microsoft's WSL 2 looks like it could be getting even stronger with official support from Fedora  Windows Central