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Fedora Linux 43 Cleared For Release Next Week  Phoronix

New Windows 11 25H2 versus Linux 6.17 benchmarks (no games)  [H]ard|Forum

New Windows 11 25H2 versus Linux 6.17 benchmarks (no games)  [H]ard|Forum

I built an ultra-light NAS setup instead of using TrueNAS or Proxmox  XDA

Back in May AMD announced the Radeon AI PRO R9700 with 128 AI accelerators, 32GB of GDDR6 video memory, and other advantages for this AI-focused RDNA4 based graphics card over the RDNA3-based Radeon PRO W7900. The Radeon AI PRO R9700 was supposed to be available in July while today AMD announced it will be going on sale next week...

AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 Hitting Retailers Next Week For $1299 USD  Phoronix

Windows 10 retiring is a great opportunity for Linux — and it’s being wasted  Medium

Red Hat introduces Developer Lightspeed, an AI-driven assistant to streamline workflows  BetaNews

Show Off Your Linux Skills With an Official Ubuntu Exam  Currently.com

Show Off Your Linux Skills With an Official Ubuntu Exam  How-To Geek

KDE KWin developer Xaver Hugl published a new blog post today outlining the KMS overlay planes support present within the newly-released Plasma 6.5 desktop. While not yet enabled by default, enabling the overlay planes functionality can result in some nice power savings such as during video playback...

VMScape: Cracking VM-Host Isolation in the Speculative Execution Age & How Linux Patches Respond  Linux Journal

In addition to announced Snap-based silicon-optimized AI large language models, Canonical used the ongoing Ubuntu Summit 25.10 virtual event to announced Canonical Academy. Canonical Academy is their new effort for badges/certifications around Ubuntu Linux...

Canonical Academy Announced For New Ubuntu Linux Certifications  Phoronix

Actiphy™ Inc. Unveils New Version of ActiveImage Protector™ 2022 with Support for Linux KVM Virtualization Technology  The AI Journal

Actiphy™ Inc. Unveils New Version of ActiveImage Protector™ 2022 with Support for Linux KVM Virtualization Technology  Business Wire

MutantC: An open-source, modular Linux handheld designed to be customizable for various tasks  Notebookcheck

Besides the early fallout of switching to Rust Coreutils on Ubuntu 25.10 causing some breakage, a more pressing issue has been discovered: Ubuntu 25.10's unattended upgrades functionality for automatic security updates is currently broken due to a Rust Coreutils bug...

Fedora agrees policy allowing AI-assisted contributions  theregister.com

Linux's Proposed Cache Aware Scheduling Benchmarks Show Big Potential On AMD EPYC Turin Review  Phoronix