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The Linux kernel's block subsystem for storage is poised to introduce support for atomic writes with the upcoming Linux 6.11 merge window.

After a good bit of silence, 3 Minutes to Midnight is pretty much done now with the developers noting they're reading it for release in August. This follows their Kickstarter success back in 2019.

Curious to know how it looks like to run your favorite Windows game on Linux? We share our experience here.

While most people think of Linux as an alternative to Windows or macOS as a desktop operating system, the truth is that most installations of Linux are not on desktop computers, and not even on personal computers at all!

The Autosport Labs ESP32-CAN-X2 is a development board designed to facilitate CAN bus communications for automotive and industrial applications. This device supports up to 40V DC input and offers voltage surge protection.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak from Nihon Falcom, PH3 GmbH and NIS America, Inc. hit Steam back in March 2023. However, it was only supported for the Japanese language, now it's been updated in a big way with English language support and Steam Deck improvements too.

This Week in GNOME is out with their newest issue to detail changes made by various GNOME components over the first few days of July.

The distributor Waveshare recently featured the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4S (CM4S), a System on Module based on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, intended for industrial applications. It retains the form factor of the older Compute Module 3 and 3+, offering multiple standard peripherals.

Matomo, formerly Piwik, is free and open-source web analytics software that can be used to track website visits and display reports for data and audience analysis.

RAKwireless has introduced the WisGate Soho Pro RAK7267, the latest addition to its LoRaWAN gateway lineup. Designed for both indoor and outdoor deployments, this compact and cost-effective device is ideal for smart agriculture, smart cities, industrial IoT, and remote monitoring solutions, combining essential features of RAK gateways in a robust enclosure.

Fedora benefits from a long-standing, comprehensive, and robust openQA deployment used in release validation testing and testing updates. A recent project extended Fedora’s openQA infrastructure to use containers and cloud resources. Deploying openQA in the cloud protects against physical hardware failures and simplifies the addition of resources to scale up future testing. Another benefit of the cloud deployment is that it makes it easier for anyone to run, test, and experiment with Fedora’s openQA.

As part of the memory management changes expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle is allowing more fine-tuned control over the swappiness setting used to determine how aggressively pages are swapped out of physical system memory and into the on-disk swap space.

Oracle's Linux engineers have released their build of kernel 6.9 for Oracle Linux – and they're already planning for 6.10 and beyond.

The Turing Pi 2.5 is an updated version of the Turing Pi 2.0, a 4-node mini ITX cluster board compatible with Raspberry Pi CM4 modules and Nvidia Jetson modules. This compact device is designed for applications such as building Homelabs, self-hosting, and machine learning tasks, as it is capable of continuous 24/7 operation.

RDP, or Remote Desktop Protocol, enables you to access the graphical interface of another computer over a network. On Linux, you can utilize Xrdp to create an RDP Server. Xrdp is a free and open-source application server implementation of RDP protocol.

File managers for Android have improved significantly over the years. You do not necessarily need to install options like ES File Manager, Solid Explorer, and others. But, even if you do — and you do not like the default file manager (or refuse to use Google's Files app), there is always the open-source way instead of using the proprietary ones I just mentioned.

While there were plans of adding getrandom() in the vDSO with the upcoming Linux 6.11 merge window to speed up user-space random number generation access, Linus Torvalds is unconvinced by the work and intends to reject any pull request with it for Linux 6.11.

Daphile is a headless music server operating system. This provides an audiophile class music server and player OS – targeted to dedicated headless PC.

This week I received an email from Artyom and Kyrill Zorin, the founders of Zorin OS, stating that on July 1st it was already 15 years ago that Zorin OS 1.0 saw the light of day. For me, Zorin OS is one of the Linux distributions that I recommend to users who are curious about trying Linux for the first time. But also for people who want to use Linux for productive purposes and want a fantastic out-of-the-box experience right away, Zorin OS is a solid choice.

Proton, once famed for a VPN, now provides a suite of secure online services, including e-mail, cloud storage, and password manager (Proton Pass Linux app launched last month). Now, it’s adding another string to its privacy-focused bow, and takes aim at Google Docs in the process.