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Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release a number of Bcachefs file-system fixes were merged...

KDE Plasma Kicks Windows 11's Butt With This One Feature  How-To Geek

It's been a while since there have been any new patches in the Wine-Staging experimental area to note. More patches though have continued working their way from Wine-Staging to upstream/mainline Wine while this weekend Wine-Staging 10.2 is out at 292 patches atop upstream Wine and containing two new patches...

Mozilla VPN is Now Available for All Linux Distros  It's FOSS News

The price of software freedom is eternal politics  theregister.com

In addition to Intel preparing Bartlett Lake S EDAC driver support for Linux 6.17, several other recent and upcoming Intel processors are also set to see Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) driver coverage with this next version of the Linux kernel...

Linux 6.17 Readies EDAC Support For Intel Granite Rapids D, Wildcat Lake, Raptor Lake HX  Phoronix

Why I Actually Like Reading Linux Documentation Over Other Systems  How-To Geek

NVIDIA software engineers ended out the week by releasing a new beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) SDK. The RTXNTC software is NVIDIA's interesting solution for compressing material texture sets with very promising results for helping to reduce game data sizes moving forward...

On top of this week's release of the GNOME 49 Alpha, other application improvements and more came about in the past few days...

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development recap of all interesting things and fixes merged for the week to Plasma...

Can a Linux laptop replace my MacBook? This one is off to a good start  ZDNet

I put Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's filled a niche role for me  ZDNet

Wine 10.12 has been uncorked as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software running Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems...

Lenovo readies WMI driver for gaming handhelds with Linux 6.17  Notebookcheck

The AMD engineering led work on Attack Vector Controls for the Linux kernel could be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel with the remaining patches now being queued within a TIP branch...

Attack Vector Controls Could Be Ready For Linux 6.17 Introduction  Phoronix

TIL the PlayStation 2 Can Run Linux—Here's How It Works  How-To Geek

Sudo Vulnerability Discovered, May Exposes Linux Systems  Security Magazine

Unable to set your monitor as the primary display in Linux? Here's how to fix that  gHacks Technology News