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Solus Linux Sets 2025 Epoch Bump to Reset Repos and Cut Tech Debt  WebProNews

Linux 6.18-rc1 is now available for testing with the Linux 6.18 merge window closed. Linux 6.18 will be out in December and is anticipated to become this year's Linux LTS kernel version...

Linux 6.18-rc1 Released With New Tyr & Rocket Drivers, Haptic Touchpads & DM-PCACHE  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.18 Release Candidate  9to5Linux

Intel Simplifies Linux P-State for Hybrid CPUs, Boosts Lunar Lake Efficiency  WebProNews

Linux Kernel Disables Default TPM Bus Encryption for Performance Gains  WebProNews

Zorin OS 18 is Here to Replace Windows 10  Thurrott.com

Say goodbye to Linux audio headaches: how PipeWire simplifies everything  XDA

Linux 6.18 Kernel: Intel Hybrid Optimizations Boost Performance  WebProNews

Linux Kernel 6.16 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.17  9to5Linux

Well, here is a weekend surprise... Red Hat engineer and Rusticl lead developer Karol Herbst has opened a Mesa merge request for "CLUDA" as a compute-only driver that implements the Gallium3D API atop the NVIDIA CUDA driver API. Wow...

Intel engineers continue working on SR-IOV support for the Xe open-source kernel driver as part of Project Battlematrix for ensuring good virtualization support for the latest Intel GPUs on Linux...

Patches were posted this week for implementing Microsoft's extensions around the ACPI fan device for allowing the operating system to set fan speed trip points. In turn this should help some HP systems and likely other OEMs too in getting fan information working under Linux...

Git developers have been talking in recent weeks around release plans for Git 3.0. If all goes well we could potentially see Git 3.0 released before the end of 2026...

The first beta release of the FreeBSD 15 operating system is now available for testing...

Oreon 10 gets a timely update as Windows 10 reaches its end of life - download the alternative operating system now!  BetaNews

Merged today for the Mesa 25.3 graphics driver code is enabling support for more PowerVR Imagination GPUs within the "PVR" Vulkan driver albeit not officially supported nor in active development. Your mileage may vary but for some users with certain GPUs may work out well enough...

LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 Is Now Available for Download  9to5Linux

I got tired of looking for Linux alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud — but I didn't need to  XDA

The Linux 6.18 merge window is winding down this weekend ahead of Linux 6.18-rc1 expected on Sunday. Merged today were some remaining x86 core updates, which includes a Retpoline optimization patch intended to help out Intel E core CPUs...