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I installed Linux on an 8-inch mini laptop - and it's my new favorite way of computing  ZDNet

After some 13 years of writing about GIMP 3.0 development, today is finally the day: GIMP 3.0 has been tagged and is in the process of being released...

Researcher releases free GPU-Based decryptor for Linux Akira ransomware  Security Affairs

Hands on: I tried the latest version of Zorin OS - here's what I thought of this Linux distro  TechRadar

Hands on: I tested the latest Ubuntu Desktop release - read what I thought of this popular Linux distro  TechRadar

Hands on: I tried the latest version of Rocky Linux - read how it compares to other distros  TechRadar

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Redo Rescue (formerly Redo Backup and Recovery) is a powerful and user-friendly backup and disaster recovery solution that provides a

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Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.14-rc7 kernel with expectations of releasing Linux 6.14 stable next weekend...

Linux 6.14-rc7 Released With v6.14 Final Expected Next Weekend  Phoronix

Debian Linux 12.10 drops just in time for St. Patrick’s Day with security fixes  BetaNews

Following the DXVK 2.6 release from a few days ago for Direct3D 8/9/10/11 atop Vulkan and ahead of the upcoming Proton 10.0 release for further enhancing Valve's Steam Play, out today is DXVK-NVAPI 0.9 as the NVIDIA NVAPI integration for use with DXVK...

I Explored the Biggest Man Pages on Linux, Here’s What I Learned  How-To Geek

For some newer Arm core designs, Arm is changing the Linux kernel to defaulting to enabling Kernel Page Table Isolation "KPTI" if not running on a new firmware version in order to properly mitigate a recently disclosed CPU security issue. This change has been queued up and is expected to change the default with the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel...

For those that happen to have a Huawei Matebook E Go 2-in-1 laptop or have been considering these ARM laptops, the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel will be better supporting these devices thanks to a new driver set to be merged...

Huawei Matebook E Go Laptops To Be Better Supported With Linux 6.15  Phoronix

Garuda Linux Might Be the Best Looking Desktop OS on the Market  The New Stack

Ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc7 kernel release later today, a set of input subsystem updates were merged overnight that add in support for a few more gaming controllers...

Linux 6.14-rc7 To Support A Few More Gaming Controllers  Phoronix

An SK engineer has posted a Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) driver optimization for Linux that one line of code changed is helping with performance especially for multi-threaded workloads involving small writes to SSD storage...

A set of patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week that are working on initial Rust programming language abstractions for enabling HID device driver development...