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Linux almost turned my Gamescom trip into a catastrophic disaster, but a Windows USB came to my rescue  PC Gamer

Earlier this year Canonical announced plans for using sudo-rs as the Rust-written sudo implementation by default for Ubuntu 25.10 along with Rust Coreutils and other Rust system components. The sudo-rs goal has been achieved with the newest Ubuntu 25.10 daily ISOs now using this sudo implementation by default...

The Linux Foundation Expands Agentic AI Push With Third Major Project  LinuxInsider

What if modern PC gaming were just a little more Nintendo? Kazeta, a Linux-based OS, aims to find out with plug 'n' play SD 'carts' and by going all in on retro simplicity  PC Gamer

Separate from yesterday's upstream new GIMP 3.2 development release, open-source developer Josh Ellithorpe announced the creation of a new GIMP plug-in dubbed "Dream Prompter" for bringing the power of Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview model to this open-source photo/image editing software...

Windows Server vs Linux: Expert 2025 Comparison  Cybernews

WinBoat is a new Linux app to run Windows apps with "seamless integration"  GamingOnLinux

Now that FFmpeg 8.0 has shipped for this widely-used multimedia library, development is back on of major feature work toward the next major release. Landing on Monday was the initial code for a major rewrite to the swscale code in providing a new framework that is faster and more maintainable/extensible moving forward...

Crusader Kings III celebrates 5 years with some interesting stats  GamingOnLinux

Last month Intel posted new Linux patches for a "SoC power slider" feature premiering with upcoming Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptops. That SoC Power Slider support for the Intel int340x is now expected to be upstreamed with the Linux 6.18 kernel later this year...

Intel Power Slider Support For Panther Lake Set To Premier In Linux 6.18  Phoronix

Steam Survey for August 2025 is out and here's the Linux / SteamOS details  GamingOnLinux

To help in accelerating the development of kernel graphics drivers and any other NPU/accelerator drivers written in the Rust programming language, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem is creating its own DRM-Rust development tree for drivers and associated Rust infrastructure...

Linux's Current & Future Rust Graphics Drivers Getting Their Own Development Tree  Phoronix

A familiar desktop without Microsoft's stringent bureaucracies — Windows Look, Linux Freedom  Windows Central

45Drives Launches Free Setup Wizard to Demystify Linux Storage  HackerNoon

This new Linux desktop is almost a dead ringer for OS X  ZDNET

How DevOps Teams Are Redefining Reliability with NixOS and OSTree-Powered Linux  Linux Journal

Pi Network's Linux Move and ETP Launch Signal a Strategic Shift Toward Mainstream Adoption  AInvest

The post How to Install Zip and Unzip in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Zip is a command-line utility tool used for compressing files and folders. Compression of files & folders enables faster and

The post How to Install Zip and Unzip in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.