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I made my old Windows laptop fast again with this lightweight OS  MakeUseOf

Last month Arm announced the Lumex CSS platform with C1 CPUs and Mali G1 GPUs. One month later, Arm is already beginning to open-source graphics driver patches for enabling the new Mali-G1 graphics processor...

Arm Posts Initial Open-Source Driver Patches For New Mali-G1 GPUs  Phoronix

The BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system has published their September 2025 progress report to outline recent work on this open-source OS...

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka is available  Techzine Global

This Linux distro will make any user comfortable - and there's a free version  ZDNET

The post ytDownloader – Simple Linux GUI for YouTube Video Downloads first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Earlier, I wrote about yt-dlp, the powerful command-line tool for downloading videos from hundreds of websites, which is an incredible

The post ytDownloader – Simple Linux GUI for YouTube Video Downloads first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux Mint Launches LMDE 7 ‘Gigi’ on Debian 13 for Ubuntu Resilience  WebProNews

Linux Mint 22.2 ‘Zara’ Released: Polished, Modern, and Built for Longevity  Linux Journal

Omarchy: DHH’s Arch Linux Distro Blends Innovation and Ethical Concerns  WebProNews

This $15 Raspberry Pi Can Hack Your Wi-Fi : Are You Protected?  Geeky Gadgets

5 Linux distros that take a little work out of the box, but are so worth the effort  ZDNET

AMD & Intel Mark x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group's Anniversary: FRED, ACE, AVX10, ChkTag  Phoronix

It's been one year already since Intel and AMD formed the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group in cooperation with other industry stakeholders. Today both companies are marking the first anniversary while reaffirming their commitment to the group...

Linux Kernel 6.18 Now Available — A Deep Dive Into The Changes  LinkedIn

Linux Kernel 6.18 Now Available — A Deep Dive Into The Changes | The Cyber Security Hub™  LinkedIn

Intel Lands Big Linux GPU Driver Fix: Fixing Rendering Issues & Game Hangs/Crashes  Phoronix

Problematic code dating back to 2017 has now been reverted within the Intel open-source Mesa driver code that led to various games having rendering/corruption issues as well as various hangs and crashes in other games. This affected a variety of Intel graphics hardware and software while now has finally been tracked down with the problematic code removed. This is a big improvement for Linux gamers on Intel graphics...

A big patch series was posted today for the Linux kernel that would allow enabling/disabling CPU security mitigations at run-time rather than the current handling that can only be managed at boot-time via various Linux kernel command-line arguments. Thus due to changing security needs, differing workloads mandating different CPU security concerns and the like, this proposed feature would allow Spectre, Meltdown, and other CPU security mitigations to all be toggled at run-time...

AMD Dev Proposes Dynamic Mitigations For Linux: Run-Time Toggling Of CPU Mitigations  Phoronix