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Why I refuse to buy another Windows PC  How-To Geek

Merged to mainline yesterday for Linux 7.0 were yet more Rust changes in preparing for upcoming Rust releases as well as enhancing the kernel build reproducibility when engaging the Rust code...

Hangs & Performance Regression On Large Systems Fixed For Linux 7.0-rc4  Phoronix

This week's "sched/urgent" pull request was sent out today of scheduler updates for the ongoing Linux 7.0 cycle. Notable this week are fixing some hangs as well as a possible performance regression on large systems...

KDE Linux Adds Apple APFS File-System Support, Workaround For Frustrating AMDGPU Issue  Phoronix

In addition to GNOME OS seeing recent improvements, KDE Linux continues seeing more enhancements too for this leading reference platform for showcasing the KDE Plasma desktop...

SuperTux 0.7 officially released overnight for this nostalgic open-source game now seeing its first new release since December 2021. SuperTux 0.7 brings many significant improvements for this open-source game inspired by Super Mario...

SuperTux 0.7 Released With Enhanced Graphics, Level Redesign  Phoronix

CachyOS dethrones Arch as the top desktop distro for Linux gamers on ProtonDB  XDA

OpenRazer 3.12 adds Linux support for a good selection of new Razer accessories  XDA

Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMs  Phoronix

An open-source, independently developed Linux kernel module called GreenBoost aims to augment the dedicated video memory on NVIDIA discrete GPUs with system memory and NVMe storage. The intent here with GreenBoost is a CUDA caching layer to more easily run larger AI models for LLMs that otherwise won't fit solely in your graphics card's dedicated vRAM...

6 challenges I didn’t expect after moving to Linux  XDA

Just under one year since the long-awaited GIMP 3.0 release, GIMP 3.2 is out today as the first feature release building off the GIMP 3.0 foundation...

GIMP 3.2 Open-Source Image Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Tromjaro is a free-trade Linux distribution with plenty to offer  The New Stack

Brazil’s age verification law takes effect March 17, 2026 and nobody’s ready  Adafruit

5 popular Linux distributions (and who they're meant for)  How-To Geek

Debian 13.4 rolled out today with dozens of security fixes and other general bug fixes with the updated install media for Debian 13 Trixie...

Debian 13.4 “Trixie” Released with 111 Bug Fixes and 67 Security Updates  9to5Linux