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FOSS Weekly #25.50: Linux Power Users, Helium Browser, Two New Linux Phones, Ubuntu Starter and More  It's FOSS

OpenSUSE vs. Manjaro: Which powerhouse Linux distro is best for you?  ZDNET

The big set of networking subsystem updates was recently merged for the ongoing Linux 6.19 merge window. There are some enticing core networking improvements like a big performance improvement for heavy transfer workloads, Bluetooth PAST enablement, and more. Plus a lot of wired and wireless networking driver activity and new hardware enablement...

Merged today to the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.0 is introducing a shader VMA allocator. Long story short this new allocator steps toward enabling Vulkan ray-tracing capture/replay support, which can come in hand for debugging issues with Vulkan ray-tracing on Intel graphics hardware under Linux and similarly to assist in optimizing for better performance...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Merges Shader VMA Allocator For Ray-Tracing Capture/Replay  Phoronix

Linux Foundation launches Agentic AI Foundation to drive open agent standards  eeNews Europe

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.2 Adds Support for Multiple SSH Keys, Direct I/O Bypass  9to5Linux

PC gamers hate Windows 11 and are embracing Linux – here’s how Microsoft hopes to win them back  Currently.com

Agentic AI Foundation unites MCP, goose and AGENTS.md under Linux Foundation | ETIH EdTech News  EdTech Innovation Hub

Linux 6.18: All About the New Long-Term Support Linux Kernel  The New Stack

Every team that starts experimenting with generative AI (gen AI) eventually runs into the same wall: scaling it. Running 1 or 2 models is simple enough. Running dozens, supporting hundreds of users, and keeping GPU costs under control, is something else entirely.Teams often find themselves juggling hardware requests, managing multiple versions of the same model, and trying to deliver performance that actually holds up in production. These are the same kinds of infrastructure and operations challenges we have seen in other workloads, but now applied to AI systems that demand far more resources

NOTE: This blog has been updated to announce support for additional supported third-party model providers for the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant. Additional testing and validation of new model providers is ongoing. For the most recent list of supported model providers, please refer to Red Hat's official documentation. Earlier this year, we released the Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant, a generative AI service which delivers an intuitive chat assistant embedded within Ansible Automation Platform. The Ansible Lightspeed intelligent assistant is like having an An

For years, my career in cybersecurity was defined by a sense of urgency and criticality. As a leader of incident response teams, I lived on the front lines, constantly reacting to the latest software vulnerabilities, cyberattacks, and anomalies. My days were a blur of alerts, patch deployments, and the relentless pressure to mitigate risk and restore operations. It was a challenging, high-stakes environment where every vulnerability felt like a direct threat.Now, I've traded the immediate firefight for a more proactive battlefield as a manager within Red Hat Product Security. This has given me

Bazzite isn’t the best Linux gaming option anymore — this is  MakeUseOf

Rust Goes Mainstream in the Linux Kernel  The New Stack

The GNU C Library's malloc implementation is now enabling 2MB Transparent Huge Pages (THP) by default for AArch64 Linux. This is being done in the name of better performance -- a healthy 6.25% performance improvement is noted for SPEC with this change...

Cloud Giants On Board with New 'Agentic AI Foundation'  Virtualization Review

The newest feature to land in the cross-platform Qt toolkit is QIORing as an abstraction for Linux's IO_uring interface. This QIORing may also end up supporting Microsoft's Windows IORing implementation as well...

When I Get Stressed, I Just Repeat “Linux” to Myself  radioworld.com

Cinnamon 6.6 Desktop Environment Released with Redesigned Application Menu  9to5Linux