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Ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window opening, several early pull requests were already sent out this week in advance of Linux 6.15 expected for release later today. Among those early feature pulls was Btrfs maintainer David Sterba sending out updates to this advanced copy-on-write file-system...

9 Linux Distros I've Used Over 9 Years—Ranked  How-To Geek

Dell Latitude 7455 Is The Newest Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Seeing Linux Patches  Phoronix

The Dell Latitude 7455 (X1E-80-100) is the latest laptop powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC seeing patches for enabling Linux support...

With Linux 6.15 there are many exciting new features for this kernel version expected to debut as stable later today. Following the Linux 6.15 stable release, the Linux 6.16 merge window will then open. Here is an early look at a portion of the changes anticipated to be submitted and more than likely merged for this next kernel version...

Ahead of the Linux 6.15 kernel stable release expected later today, more input driver updates have been merged for this new kernel version that include introducing compatibility with some newer gaming controllers...

More Gaming Controllers From Turtle Beach & PowerA Supported By Linux 6.15  Phoronix

With Ubuntu 25.10 planning to ship the Rust-based Coreutils "uutils" by default, it's a big year ahead for this alternative to GNU Coreutils. In furthering along the project's goals, today marks the Rust Coreutils v0.1 release...

I've used Windows all my life, so I dove in the deep end and tried Arch Linux  XDA

Virtual Machine Beginners Should Try These 9 Operating Systems First  How-To Geek

The GNOME Web "Epiphany" web browser is making it easier to toggle WebKit web engine features at run-time...

While there was the big 62k lines of code patch from Microsoft merged yesterday to Mesa, separately there was also some code cleaning to remove some previously-deprecated code from the codebase...

I found a Linux-friendly Lenovo mini PC - and it drives up to six external monitors  ZDNet

While the open-source, Rust-based Cloud Hypervisor project was started by Intel as a modern VMM for cloud workloads and focused on security, some Intel CPU features are now bit-rotting. In turn the new Cloud Hypervisor 46 release has deprecated support for Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) while even their modern Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) feature is in jeopardy but now with Google engineers set to takeover that code...

KDE developers have been busy addressing bugs within the Plasma 6.4 desktop ahead of its stable release in June. But there has been some last minute feature work to arrive, including support for time-of-day wallpapers with Plasma 6.4...

Merged on Friday for the GCC 16 compiler is better handling of the "-march=" compiler option on RISC-V systems when seeing multiple -march= hits and wanting to specify the RISC-V CPU name for targeting...

Proton Experimental update enables gamepad input for all game launchers on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Ahead of the Linux 6.15 kernel release expected on Sunday, a final round of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver fixes were merged today to the kernel. Notable with these updates on the Intel side is squeezing in some additional PCI device IDs for upcoming Panther Lake integrated graphics...

More Intel Panther Lake Graphics PCI IDs Added To Linux 6.15  Phoronix

NixOS 25.05 Released with Linux 6.12 LTS and 6.14 Kernels, GNOME 48, and More  9to5Linux