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Firefox 141 Beta Lowering RAM Use On Linux But Still Benchmarking Behind Chrome  Phoronix

Last month Canonical announced plans for releasing monthly Ubuntu Linux development snapshots and was followed by the Questing Snapshot 1 release in the road toward Ubuntu 25.10. Out today is the Questing Snapshot 2 release for incorporating the latest Ubuntu 25.10 development changes...

Hone Your Linux Skills With These 6 Free Games  How-To Geek

Kali Linux gets a major upgrade with more than 10 new hacking tools, plus VPN IP extension, great for ethical hackers and pentest pros  MSN

Fedora Linux ponders dropping 32-bit packages — could force Bazzite to shut down, according to its creator  Tom's Hardware

As a follow-up to the article a few weeks ago about AMD enabling User CPUID Faulting support for Linux, that code looks like it's ready to go for being introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel...

AMD CPUID Faulting Support Looks To Be Coming For Linux 6.17  Phoronix

Bochs DRM Panic Support, Panfrost Adds Mediatek MT8370 SoC For Linux 6.17  Phoronix

Maxime Ripard at Red Hat sent out the latest weekly pull of "drm-misc-next" changes to DRM-Next for queuing of these kernel graphics/display driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening up in about one month's time...

The upcoming Blender 5.0 3D modeling software application is introducing High Dynamic Range (HDR) display support on Linux when making use of Wayland -- no X11 support for HDR -- and Vulkan graphics accelerator...

Blender 5.0 Introducing HDR Support On Linux With Vulkan + Wayland  Phoronix

This free Linux distro is the easiest way to revive your old computer. How it works  ZDNET

8 things to know when switching from Windows to Linux  TechTarget

Google Just Gave the Linux Foundation an AI Gift  It's FOSS News

French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools  theregister.com

Exploring Katana Dragon: Ninja Action RPG with Native Linux and Steam Deck Support  It's FOSS News

Key Tech Firms Unite As Google Donates A2A To Linux Foundation  Forbes

The NOVA-Core driver as the basis for a modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA GPU driver for the upstream Linux kernel and eventual successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau DRM driver has a new co-maintainer...

NVIDIA Engineer Now Co-Maintainer Of "NOVA" Open-Source Rust GPU Driver  Phoronix

Manage Linux storage space with du and df commands  TechTarget