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How to make Linux look like MacOS for free - with a few simple ZorinOS tweaks  ZDNET

Critical ‘DirtyClone’ Flaw Grants Root Privileges Across Linux Ecosystem  Open Source For You

It’s Linux, On A Sega Megadrive  Hackaday

Linux 7.2's first release candidate gets off to a good start  Neowin

CVE-2026-53325: Critical Linux Kernel AMD64 AGP Driver Vulnerability Leads to Virtualization Denial of Service (DoS)  Rescana

Archinstall 4.4's new color-coded install preview makes installing Arch easier than ever before  XDA

Drauger OS 7.8 aims to turn Ubuntu into a gaming Linux distro with KDE Plasma  XDA

Mageia 10 ISOs are now available for this Linux distribution long ago derived from Mandriva Linux and in turn the legendary Mandrake Linux...

Mageia 10 Released For This Linux Distribution Carrying On The Mandrake Legacy  Phoronix

Ahead of the July 2026 ISO refresh for Arch Linux, a new Archinstall 4.4 release has been tagged for this text-based and very convenient installer for Arch Linux...

Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.4 Adds Dank Material Shell + Niri Desktop Option  Phoronix

Run a 30-year old version of GIMP on modern Linux via Flatpak  OMG! Ubuntu

AI is rapidly transforming how system administrators and developers interact with their environments. In 2025, we introduced the command line assistant, an optional tool available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that allows users to ask questions and get natural language troubleshooting guidance right from the terminal.We're now announcing the next step in our AI-driven systems management journey—the availability of the goose AI agent in the RHEL extensions repository for RHEL 9.8 and RHEL 10.2. A project of the Agentic AI Foundation, goose is a flexible, open source AI agent that can be

Every telecommunications service provider is operationalizing AI right now. Use cases include customer care-bots, network operation co-pilots, and managed AI-as-a-service (AIaaS) for external enterprise customers and others. The uncomfortable part is correlation of use case with business case, where the key factor is the cost of the AI accelerator, whether that's a graphics processing unit (GPU), tensor processing unit (TPU), or neural processing unit (NPU). Cost per inference decides whether these AI accelerators improve profit margins or erode them; to keep costs down, the AI model you sele

The velocity at which new features are added and applications evolve directly drives up architectural complexity. This relentless pace isn't just driven by the desire for new features; it is increasingly forced by the constant discovery of new vulnerabilities. Patching a single critical dependency can trigger a cascade of required updates and unexpected architectural changes as each product and solution comes with a myriad of implementation options and various features to enable or disable. Tailoring this complexity to your specific environment makes it challenging to guarantee every component

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 28th, 2026  9to5Linux

Microsoft called Linux a cancer, now ships its own free distro that's nothing like Ubuntu or Fedora  Windows Latest

Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 4.4 Released with Niri DankMaterialShell Profile  9to5Linux

Archinstall 4.4 Polishes the Arch Linux Installation Experience  Linuxiac

As expected, Linux 7.2-rc1 was released a brief time ago to cap off the Linux 7.2 merge window. Now it's off for eight weeks or so of testing before Linux 7.2 stable is released that will in turn go on to power the likes of Fedora 45 and Ubuntu 26.10...