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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 5th, 2025  9to5Linux

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.13-rc6 as the newest weekly test release of the Linux 6.13 kernel that is working its way toward stable later in January...

Linux 6.13-rc6 Released Following A Fairly Quiet Week  Phoronix

Linux gaming on the rise  Fudzilla

2025 Won't Be the Year of the Linux Desktop Either. So What?  How-To Geek

Windows 10 users urged to upgrade to avoid "security fiasco"  BleepingComputer

With the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle Google is poised to have its ChromeOS UCSI driver upstreamed...

ChromeOS UCSI Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.14 Cycle  Phoronix

Love KDE Plasma? These 7 Linux Distros Use Plasma as Their Default Desktops  How-To Geek

For fans of the Xubuntu derivative of Ubuntu Linux, the upcoming Xubuntu 25.04 release will feature the Xfce 4.20 desktop...

Xubuntu 25.04 Preparing Xfce 4.20 Desktop Upgrade  Phoronix

Linux: How to Use Cron to Schedule Regular Jobs  The New Stack

This morning I rolled out upgraded forum software to improve the forum experience and also hopefully help the overall Phoronix.com site performance with the database server being hammered recently from the forums...

Intel Razer Lake, Nova Lake, and Wildcat Lake processor IDs have been added to the Linux kernel: what do we  ITC

16-bit Linux-like Goodness  Hackaday

Loongson's LoongArch processors for the Chinese market have been primarily for desktop systems but it looks like their workstation/server ambitions may be growing with now contributing an Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver for Loongson SoCs with ECC memory...

Loongson Introducing An EDAC Driver For LoongArch + ECC Memory Systems  Phoronix

Hot off the recent Serpent OS Alpha release and talking up new features for 2025, this original Linux distribution led by open-source developer Ikey Doherty is now demonstrating its offline rollback support with integration around its package management system...

For Marvell's line of Octeon line of data processing units (DPUs) and baseband processors, it looks like a new DPU is on the way with the CN20K silicon seeing work on enabling Linux support...

Is Linux finally ready to storm the mainstream?  iTWire