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Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET I’ve worked from home for over a decade. Without Linux as my primary operating system, I’m not sure how I would be able to do the things I do with the level of simplicity and reliability that I’ve achieved with the open-source OS. Linux makes a lot of things possible for me that Windows and …

With the newly-released Linux 6.16 kernel there is the new X86_NATIVE_CPU build option if wanting to optimize your kernel build for your local CPU in use. Enabling CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU is setting the “-march=native” compiler optimizations for the kernel build in an effort to ensure peak performance/optimizations for the local system. Here are some benchmarks looking at the impact of X86_NATIVE_CPU on …

Linux is all about customization, whether you need the most basic, command-line-only operating system, or a fully-fledged desktop ready to throw down with Windows and macOS. These are a few of the best apps you can install on Linux. 7 AppImageLauncher Linux distros can use a type of portable application called an AppImage. Unlike regular apps, they don’t install on …

As anticipated the Linux 6.16 kernel was promoted to stable. Linux 6.16 now greets the world with various performance improvements, NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell open-source GPU driver support in Nouveau, Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) preparations, and many other exciting enhancements. Linux 6.16 is a great kernel update for the summer of 2025. I’ve already covered the Linux 6.16 highlights …

My laptop could not upgrade to Windows 11, so I decided to move to Linux. This was the best decision I ever made for my computers, and I’m hooked on this operating system. Even if you can switch over to Windows 11, you may find that Linux Mint is better. Buying costly new hardware just to keep up with Microsoft’s …

FBI warns of Interlock threat – enable 2FA now. LightRocket via Getty Images There are some weeks that I almost feel like I have joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation, given the number of alerts that I am exposed to. Within just the last few days, I have shared a warning to 10 million Android users to disconnect their devices, …

Assuming no objections are raised by Linus Torvalds, an early pull request has been submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window to address an obscure kernel limitation that has been in place going back all the way to 1993 during the Linux v0.99 kernel days. A Linux engineer working at Alibaba recently reported on a script-generated Assembly file that …

The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution. Over the past decade the Clear Linux operating system has shown what’s possible with out-of-the-box performance on x86_64 hardware… Not just for Intel platforms but even showing extremely great performance results on AMD x86_64 too. But with the cost-cutting going on at Intel, Clear Linux …

Ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release due out later today, an x86/urgent pull request was sent out today that includes some fixes for old AMD Zen 2 hardware. There are two principal set of changes with this week’s “x86/urgent” pull request for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle. First up, it contains patches for updating the MAINTAINERS entry with longtime …

Amid Intel’s ongoing financial difficulties and multiple rounds of layoffs some Linux engineers at Intel left last year and there’s been at least one prominent departure this week amid the latest round of challenges at the company. Kirill Shutemov has left Intel. After 14 years working at Intel on various areas of the Linux kernel, he’s leaving the company. Most …