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atop is a full-screen performance monitoring tool that provides detailed reports about all system processes, including those that have already

The post How to Install ‘atop’ to Monitor Real-Time System Performance first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Switching From Desktop Linux To FreeBSD  Hackaday

Linux 6.16-rc4 arrives with a focus on filesystem and driver fixes  Neowin

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 29th, 2025  9to5Linux

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.16-rc4 as we prepare to close out the first half of 2025 and hitting roughly one month until the Linux 6.16 stable release...

Linux 6.16-rc4 Released With AMD Cleaner Shader For More GPUs, Bcachefs Changes  Phoronix

I Left Windows for Linux—and I’m Never Looking Back  MakeUseOf

Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base  Tom's Hardware

Building off Friday's release of Wine 10.11 for running Windows games and applications on Linux is now Hangover 10.11 for this Wine-based software used for running Windows games/applications cross-architecture such as on AArch64/ARM64 systems...

Wine-Based Hangover Project Drops QEMU In Favor Of FEX & Box64 For Emulation  Phoronix

It looks like AMD is preparing to introduce some new APUs/SoCs still relying on RDNA1-based graphics with open-source GPU driver patches posted this week extending the "Cyan Skillfish" support to some new APU devices...

I tried this self-hosted Cron dashboard for managing my automated Linux tasks  XDA

Wayback is a new open-source project working on providing an X11 compatibility layer for running full X11 desktop environments using Wayland components with a rootful XWayland server...

Wayback Is An Experimental X11 Compatibility Layer For X11 Desktops Using Wayland  Phoronix

5 More Beginner-Friendly Linux Distros  How-To Geek

Released earlier this month were various GNOME 49 Alpha 0 packages including for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor while out this weekend are the "Alpha 1" releases...

With Q2 quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and other Linux/open-source news for the quarter...

Week in review: Backdoor found in SOHO devices running Linux, high-risk WinRAR RCE flaw patched  Help Net Security

Every Windows user should keep a live version of Linux handy — here's why  XDA

5 reasons I prefer this distro over Ubuntu as a Windows-to-Linux convert  XDA