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Steam Deck Patch Boosts Low Frame Rates by 30% for Smoother Gameplay  PCMag

System76 goes to college – a case study  System76

System76 goes to college – a case study  System76 Blog

Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R610 On CachyOS With The GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU Review  Phoronix

Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R610 On CachyOS With The GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU Review  Phoronix

With the Razer Blade 18 as the first laptop Razer's certifying for (Ubuntu) Linux use while testing it out I was predominantly using the NVIDIA R610 official driver stack. Some users were interested though in how well this laptop is working with the open-source, upstream Nouveau+NVK driver stack given Razer is marketing this high-end laptop for Linux use too. Before sending the review unit back I had run some graphics benchmarks to see how Nouveau+NVK was performing for this Razer Blade RZ09-0582 with the flagship GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU.

Steam Deck Patch Boosts Low Frame Rates by 30% for Smoother Gameplay  PCMag Australia

Steam Deck Patch Boosts Low Frame Rates by 30% for Smoother Gameplay  PCMag UK

pfSense co-founder now builds his own firewall with AI and Linux – no Netgate allowed  cybernews.com

Cryptominer Abuses Linux PAM to Hide From SOC Analysts  Infosecurity Magazine

In an interesting twist, patches this week posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are enabling AMD Zen 6 client desktop and laptop SoCs for the HSMP driver. Up to now the AMD HSMP Linux driver was just used for modern EPYC server processors while now we are seeing this HSMP driver supporting the upcoming Medusa and Olympic Ridge client platforms... Including mentions of overclocking and even noting "Ryzen Master" as the Windows-only software for overclocking and system management...

AMD Zen 6 Client HSMP Patches Point To "Ryzen Master" Functionality On Linux  Phoronix

New GenieLocker Ransomware Attacks Windows, ESXi, and Linux Instances  CyberSecurityNews

FOSS Weekly #26.31: Ubuntu 26.10 Features, OpenUK, Graphene Trouble, Vibe Coded Linux and More  It's FOSS

Linux Cryptomining Campaign Weaponizes PAM to Hide XMRig Botnet Activity  CyberSecurityNews

The Xen Project today released Xen 4.22 as the newest feature release of this open-source hypervisor popular for open-source virtualization in automotive systems and other embedded use-cases as well as the cloud...

Xen 4.22 Released With AMD Zen 5 BLT Support, Improved RISC-V Virtualization  Phoronix

And Folks, We Have a Vibe Coded Linux Distro!  It's FOSS

I let Claude customize my Linux PC—and it did a better job than I ever could  Yahoo Tech

I let Claude customize my Linux PC—and it did a better job than I ever could  How-To Geek