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Switcher 2026: Debian is Too Complex For Its Own Good ⭐  Thurrott.com

NVIDIA is kicking off the new week with their first Linux driver beta in the R610 driver series that is succeeding the current R595 release branch...

NVIDIA 610.43.02 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements, DRM Color Pipeline API  Phoronix

Linus Torvalds is fed up with AI-generated bug reports bloating the Linux kernel  TechSpot

You can easily make Zorin OS look any feel like Windows, MacOS, or Linux - here's how  ZDNET

Linux is Getting a Free Pass on Age Verification in California and Colorado  It's FOSS

Keep goods moving along the rails in mini puzzler Upalu Mundi  GamingOnLinux

WCH BLE Analyzer Pro USB Bluetooth LE sniffer gains Linux software with Wireshark (pcap) support  CNX Software

World of Tanks: HEAT released free on Steam and works on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

As expected, Linux slipped past California’s age-verification crackdown  Windows Central

Fedora quietly became the best "everything" Linux distro—and no one noticed  How-To Geek

MX Linux 25.2 now available with plenty of fixes and package updates  Notebookcheck

A set if 17 patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for introducing a new tool in the kernel source tree, pmtctl. This new pmtctl tool is for interfacing with Intel Platform Monitoring Technology...

Intel Working On pmtctl Tool For Linux In Dealing With Platform Telemetry Data  Phoronix

PipeWire 1.6.6 Improves the Pulse Server, Volume Initialization in Filter Graph  9to5Linux

A love letter to the Quake series, free and open source FPS Quetoo is out now  GamingOnLinux

The past few Linux kernel cycles there has been experimental support for large folios with Btrfs while for Linux 7.2 it looks like this modern file-system will be taking things further with huge folios...

Colorado And California Shield Linux From OS-Level Age Verification Rules  Open Source For You

AerynOS Gets Linux 7.0, COSMIC 1.0.13, and KDE Plasma 6.6.5  Linuxiac

A bill to mandate age verification for Linux users is facing heavy criticism and is being amended.  GIGAZINE