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Linux 6.17-rc5 is out for testing as the newest weekly release candidate as we near the stable Linux 6.17 release in late September...

Linux 6.17-rc5 Released With NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Stability Issues Addressed  Phoronix

Debian 13.1 released | Born's Tech and Windows World  BornCity

Docker Wine is a weird way to containerize and run Windows programs on Linux  xda-developers.com

5 Linux tweaks that instantly made my system lightning fast  xda-developers.com

6 BSDs Worth Trying Instead of Linux  How-To Geek

In addition to the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver updates sent out this week in advance of the Linux 6.18 kernel, there was also a batch of drm-intel-next updates also submitted for predominantly display-related changes to the open-source Intel driver...

Linux: Deploy a Honeypot to Catch Your Server’s Attackers  The New Stack

Is WINUX really like using Windows 11 but on Linux? Surprisingly, yes, and here's why.  Windows Central

Hangover is the open-source project that leverages Wine to allow running x86 32-bit and 64-bit Windows applications on AArch64 Linux systems. Hangover pairs Wine with an emulator like Box64 or FEX for the x86/x86_64 to AArch64 translation while also eyeing other CPU architecture support too...

Hangover 10.14 Released With Updated FEX, Box64 & DXVK  Phoronix

Ever wondered why someone would write in a terminal and not Microsoft Word? It's brilliant, that's why!  Windows Central

I Tested 9 Ubuntu-Based Linux Distros, Here's How I Rank Them  How-To Geek

Imagination's open-source PowerVR kernel graphics driver for a while has seen patches extending it to work on RISC-V given that some RISC-V hardware coming to market has featured PowerVR graphics IP. With the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel that work is landing along with enabling support for the T-HEAD TH1520's GPU...

Imagination PowerVR Driver With Linux 6.18 To Support RISC-V  Phoronix

The first alpha release of FreeBSD 15.0 is now available! FreeBSD 15.0 is a major update to this BSD operating system that aims for its stable release before Christmas...

The UI freeze for Ubuntu 25.10 is now in effect as the developers work toward the release of this next Ubuntu Linux installment in October...

Intel PEPC 1.6 Released For Tuning Efficiency Latency Control "ELC" With Xeon 6 CPUs  Phoronix

Intel's open-source PEPC tool has been updated as the utility for managing and optimized Intel CPU power management features on Linux...

MSI unveils MS-CF16 V3.0 Pico-ITX SBC with Alder Lake-N, Amston Lake, and Twin Lake processors  linuxgizmos.com