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CodeWeavers just announced CrossOver 26, the newest version of their commercial software built atop Wine for running Windows games and applications under Apple macOS and Linux...

CrossOver 26 Released - Powered By Wine 11.0 For Windows Apps/Games On Linux + macOS  Phoronix

Mewgenics is weird, completely chaotic and it's out now  GamingOnLinux

With recently having carried out benchmarks and finding the Intel Xeon 6780E "Sierra Forest" performance has improved ~14% since launch day thanks to open-source/Linux software improvements plus also recently having carried out Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids vs. EPYC 9755 128-core benchmarks using the latest upstream software, here is a look at how the Xeon 6780E "Sierra Forest" dual socket server is comparing up against the AMD EPYC 9965 Turin Dense flagship when both are running up-to-date software.

Intel Xeon 6780E Sierra Forest vs. AMD EPYC 9965 On Linux 6.18 Performance  Phoronix

BSD: What is it, and how is it different from Linux?  How-To Geek

The Linux commands you use every day have a name: coreutils  How-To Geek

MythTV 36.0 Open-Source Media Center Is Out Now with Support for FFmpeg 8  9to5Linux

Eight Linux Distros Emerge As Top Picks For Developers  findarticles.com

Cangaroo open-source CAN bus analyzer supports SocketCAN and CAN-FD on Linux  LinuxGizmos.com

8 Linux distros I always recommend first to developers - and why  ZDNET

Litebox is Microsoft’s bold new security project  Windows Central

DeepComputing Unveils RVA23-Compliant Mainboard III for Linux on Framework 13  LinuxGizmos.com

Linux Security Patch Release Time Statistics 2026  commandlinux.com

The open-source Redis 8.6 release is now available and this GA release has brought "substantial" performance improvements and to memory reduction too. Plus various new features like TLS certificate-based automatic client authentication, time series enhancements, and new eviction policies...

In addition to the BPF filtering support for IO_uring that was merged on Monday, the other block device changes and IO_uring updates were also merged for the newly-opened Linux 7.0 merge window...

Linux Kernel 6.19 Ends 6.x Era, Benefits Cloud Admins  findarticles.com

The latest Linux kernel release closes out the 6.x era - and it's a gift to cloud admins  ZDNET

VoidLink Linux C2 Highlights LLM-Generated Malware with Multi-Cloud and Kernel-Level Stealth  CybersecurityNews

After the merge request was opened back in 2023 and after going through 628 comments/activity, merged now to Wayland Protocols is the experimental zones "xx-zones" implementation for area-limited window positioning...