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GNU C Library 2.44 Released With /etc/tunables.conf, More Optimizations
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KDE Plasma 6.8 Introducing New kscreenctl Tool
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Wine 11.14 Brings WoW64 Mode To FreeBSD, Icon Support In Start Menu
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Debian Considering General Resolution Over LLM Usage In The Project
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AMD ROCm Committed To Six Week Release Cycle Moving Forward
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Qualcomm QCE Driver On The Chopping Block With ~48x Slower Than Armv8 Crypto Extensions
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Imagination PowerVR Driver Marking BXM-4-64 MC1 GPU As Supported In Linux 7.3
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Ubuntu Linux Looking To Get Rid Of /etc/debian_version Historical Artifact
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Fedora 45 Looks To Begin Phasing Out In-Kernel Crypto Userspace API
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AMD Advancing AI 2026: Open, Open-Source & More Open-Source
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Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Experience Still Lackluster On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
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Coreboot 26.06 Brings Support For Intel Nova Lake, AMD Strix Halo & 31 New Boards
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Linux 7.2 To Raise LLVM/Clang Compiler Requirement, Add Support For Distributed ThinLTO
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Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware
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Fedora 45 Considering A Lightened GRUB Bootloader For Confidential Compute
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Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages
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Linux DRM Ioctl Developed By AMD Being Disabled Following Ongoing Security Issue
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Today Marks 22 Years Of Phoronix For Linux Hardware Testing & Benchmarking
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Widely-Used libinput Updated Due To Arbitrary Root Code Execution
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3mdeb Keeps Making Progress On Their Coreboot + AMD openSIL Port To Ryzen MSI Board
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AMD EPYC 8635P "Sorano" Benchmarks: Significant Upgrade Opportunity For EPYC 8004 Servers
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Intel Preps GCC Function Multi-Versioning To Support APX & AVX10.2
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Ubuntu To Ship Newer AMD ROCm Updates Via SRUs
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NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support Moves Closer For Open-Source Nova Driver
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Intel XPU Manager Adds Support For Arc Pro B65 + Arc Pro B70
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New "KRAID" Compiler Merged To Mesa For Panfrost/PanVK Drivers
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Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils
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Canonical Now Considers Their Steam Snap For ARM64 To Be Stable
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Rust Coreutils 0.9 Released With Additional Security Hardening, Zero-Copy I/O
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NixOS 26.05 Released With 20,442 New Packages, Stage 1 Now Based On systemd By Default
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AMD Submits More Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.2
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G7 Agrees On Shared Language Around Open-Source AI, Open Weights AI
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AMD Expands The Range Of Zen 6 CPUs Detected By The Linux Kernel
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GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator
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Plasma 6.6, 6.7 & 6.8 See Plenty Of Bug Fixing This Week
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Genode OS 26.05 Released, Finishes Moving From GitHub To Codeberg
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SteamOS 3.8.6 Beta Released With Initial Native Support For AMD HDMI VRR
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Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1 Released For Testing
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Wine 11.10 Released With VKD3D 2.0, Improved VBScript Compatibility
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QEMU may allow AI-generated contributions in non-critical areas
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AMD ROCm 7.2.4 Released With Performance & Stability Fixes
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Fwupd 2.1.4 Brings Many Bug Fixes, Firmware Update Support For Intel Arc Pro B65/B70
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CachyOS Delivers Lead Over Arch Linux, Pop!_OS & Ubuntu On System76 Thelio Major
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Btrfs Change Coming For Linux 7.2 Yields Very Healthy Performance Gain
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Intel To Support DRM Background Color Property With Linux 7.2
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Fedora 45 Considering Use Of PURL Metadata For Uniquely Identifying Software Packages
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