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3 ways to have more fun with a Linux PC this weekend (December 26 - 28)  How-To Geek

Wine 11.0-rc4 is out today as the latest weekly release candidate in working toward the stable Wine 11.0 release in January...

PorteuX 2.5 Is Out with Flatpak Support, Cinnamon 6.6, COSMIC 1.0, and Linux 6.18  9to5Linux

I've been dual-booting Windows 11 and Linux in harmony throughout 2025  Windows Central

Another X11 revival for Linux has arrived, but what's the point?  How-To Geek

5 Essential Steam Deck Apps You Should Be Using In 2026  bgr.com

As part of the various end-of-year benchmarking comparisons on Phoronix and with Linux 6.19 switching older AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics cards to the AMDGPU driver by default, I planned for a very large AMD Radeon graphics card comparison on the latest open-source Linux driver for ending out 2025. In the end though I was thwarted by newer AMD RDNA3 / RDNA4 graphics cards regressing hard on Linux 6.19 that led to ending this testing prematurely due to a show-stopping bug. In any case in this article offers a fresh look at older GCN and RDNA graphics cards on Linux 6.19 + Mesa 26.0-devel.

AMD RDNA3/RDNA4 Go Down Hard On Linux 6.19, But Here's How The Older AMD GPUs End Out 2025  Phoronix

Connecting to a VPN Service from the Linux Command Line  Yahoo! Tech

How to Connect to a VPN Service from the Linux Command Line  How-To Geek

New to Linux? 5 must-have apps to install on day one  Yahoo! Tech

New to Linux? 5 must-have apps to install on day one  How-To Geek

My 11 favorite Linux distributions of all time, ranked  ZDNet

Coreboot 25.12 is out today as the latest quarterly feature update to this open-source BIOS/firmware solution...

CachyOS wants to be your NAS operating system  How-To Geek

I tried dozens of Linux apps in 2025, but these are the ones I still use  How-To Geek

Linux Foundation’s Safe Harbour for the Agentic AI Era  Analytics India Magazine

NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux  Hackaday

It was a very interesting year for Ubuntu Linux. Ahead of the important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release due out this coming April, Ubuntu Linux this year was expeditiously migrating to new Rust-based system tools like sudo-rs and Rust Coreutils, new performance optimizations continued to be explored for bettering the out-of-the-box Ubuntu performance, better ARM64 support with its desktop ISO, and enhancing the Snapdragon X Elite laptop support were among the Ubuntu highlights in 2025...

An exciting post-Christmas patch series out on the Linux kernel mailing list this morning is proposing a new runtime standby ABI that is similar in nature to the "Modern Standby" functionality found with Microsoft Windows...