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When Vodafone New Zealand separated from the Vodafone Group to become One New Zealand (One NZ), it faced an opportunity to go beyond a mere rebrand. Like many telecommunications providers, One NZ faced a 2-stack challenge as it managed legacy virtual machines (VMs) alongside modern containerized applications. To support its long-term digital ambitions, it launched the C1 Program, a telco core modernization project that aimed to build a unified, future-ready foundation. The goal was to standardize telco applications on a common platform that could accelerate business outcomes without vendor con

Steam Client Now Lets You Manage Downloads on Remote Steam Clients  9to5Linux

Modder releases PS5-Linux that turns the console into a fully functional Linux gaming PC  Notebookcheck

Fedora Linux 44 Launches With Gnome 50, KDE Plasma 6.6  TechPowerUp

Fedora Linux 44 Launches With Gnome 50, KDE Plasma 6.6  TechPowerUp

Proton VPN to Offer More Speed, More Security, More Servers  CNET

Someone figured out how to run Windows 9x inside Linux and it's surprisingly useful  MakeUseOf

Canonical plans responsible AI for Ubuntu Linux, rejecting Microsoft's Copilot model  Yahoo Tech

Canonical plans responsible AI for Ubuntu Linux, rejecting Microsoft's Copilot model  How-To Geek

Pack2TheRoot: 12-Year-Old Linux PackageKit Flaw Enables Full Compromise  Hackread

At the start of April was the peculiar announcement of IBM collaborating with Arm on "dual architecture" hardware. The initial fruits of that collaboration at least are Linux kernel patches for enabling ARM64 virtualization acceleration on IBM Z servers. As we approach the end of the month, IBM has now posted a second iteration of those patches for enabling AArch64 software to run on IBM s390 via the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)...

IBM Updates Linux Patches For Introducing ARM64 KVM Virtualization On s390  Phoronix

Microsoft Reportedly Eyes Fedora Base for Azure Linux  Linuxiac

Canonical's approach to AI is refreshingly thoughtful - Microsoft should take note  The Tech Buzz

NVIDIA 595.71.05 stable driver released for Linux  GamingOnLinux

The past few weeks I have been testing out the new HP Z6 G5 A workstation desktop PC. It's a beast in being powered by the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9975WX, eight channels of DDR5-5600 memory, and paired with a NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q workstation graphics card. The full review on the HP Z6 G5 A workstation will be published on Phoronix in the next week or so but given the timing and that it shipped with WIndows 11 Pro, here is a look at how Windows 11 Pro is competing against the newly-released Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in creator/workstation workloads.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Leads Over Windows 11 In Creator Workstation Performance Review  Phoronix

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Leads Over Windows 11 In Creator Workstation Performance Review  Phoronix

Canonical Plans to Integrate Opt-In LLM-Based Tools in Future Ubuntu Releases  9to5Linux