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KDE Gear 26.04.2 Released with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps  9to5Linux

AMD Submits Its Long-Awaited HDMI 2.1 FRL Support For Linux 7.2 AMDGPU  Phoronix

It's happening! The long-awaited HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for handling higher resolutions and higher refresh rates on modern AMD Radeon graphics cards with the upstream AMDGPU open-source driver has been submitted to DRM-Next ahead of this month's Linux 7.2 merge window!..

While not as well known as the likes of the Godot or O3DE open-source game engines, Crown Engine continues advancing as an open-source, C++-based game engine...

Crown Engine 0.63 Restores Its OpenGL Renderer For Legacy Hardware Support  Phoronix

The LLVM project will begin offering Zstd-compressed archives of their binaries in addition to the existing XZ-compressed releases. LLVM developers are finding Zstd working out great with "significantly reduced" download sizes...

I upgraded to Fedora 44 and one change made it immediately worth it  MakeUseOf

Steam Survey For May 2026 After Delay: Linux Just Under 4%  Phoronix

Back in March Steam on Linux skyrocketed to 5.33% with more than double the Steam gaming marketshare of macOS. Then for April Steam on Linux pulled back to a still-great 4.52%, well above the times when Steam on Linux was at 2% or less for many years. Now the May 2026 figures have been published overnight by Valve...

Tiny SoM featuring NXP’s i.MX 91 targets Linux-based IoT  Electronics Weekly

Steam Survey for May 2026 is out - Linux down at 3.99% but still above macOS  GamingOnLinux

Microsoft Releases Coreutils for Windows, Bringing Native Linux Commands to the OS  gHacks

Ubuntu's big AI rollout will let you speak into any text box — no typing required  XDA

Forlinx launches Rockchip RK3572 system-on-module (SoM) and development board with Linux 6.12 BSP  CNX Software

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Icinga 2 is a free and open-source monitoring tool that helps you keep an eye on your servers, services, and

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I'm now convinced that 'MacBook Pro for Linux' tagline isn't just marketing  pcgamer.com

The libinput input handling library used by both X.Org and Wayland environments on modern Linux desktops is out with a new security fix release. A new vulnerability is now public allowing for arbitrary root code execution...

Following thr 3mdeb consulting firm's recent release of their Dasharo build of Coreboot and AMD openSIL for the Gigabyte MZ33-ARI1 EPYC 9005 series motherboard, the same engineers continue working on their port of Coreboot and the openSIL CPU silicon initialization library to a Ryzen 9000 series consumer motherboard...

Using Rhino Linux's new Lomiri snapshot took me back to the glory days of Unity  ZDNET

In the dynamic digital landscape of the Middle East, we are seeing a shift from AI experimentation to production-ready innovation. This transition is becoming a key factor in driving national competitiveness and economic resilience across the region.The opportunity ahead is significant. Projections suggest AI could contribute USD 320 billion to the Middle East’s economy by 2030, with Egypt expected to generate nearly 8% of its GDP from AI in the same timeframe.However, capturing this value requires navigating a marketplace defined by contrast. The region is a mosaic of digital ambitions wher