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Linux-Powered Enterprise Smartphones  Trend Hunter

I run my favorite Windows apps on Linux, and this free tool makes it effortless  MakeUseOf

Page Cache Sharing Looks To Be Very Beneficial For EROFS Containers  Phoronix

My 5 favorite distros of Linux past - and why I'm still thinking about them  ZDNET

Longtime Slashdot reader MrFreak shares a public radio interview from 2015 discussing artificial intelligence as inference over abstract inputs, along with scaling limits, automation, and governance models, where for-profit engines are constrained by nonprofit oversight: Recorded months before OpenAI was founded, the conversation treats intelligence as math plus incentives rather than something mystical, touching on architectural bottlenecks, why "reasoning" may not simply emerge from brute force, labor displacement, and institutional design for advanced AI systems. Many of the themes align closely with current debates around large language models and AI governance. The recording was revisited following recent remarks by Sergey Brin at Stanford, where he acknowledged that despite Google's early work on Transformers, institutional hesitation and incentive structures limited how aggressively the technology was pursued. The interview provides an earlier, first-principles perspective on how abstraction, scaling, and organizational design might interact once AI systems begin to compound.

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We Have Another New Linux Phone Before 2025 Ends...And It's Not For You (or Me)  It's FOSS

Linux postmarketOS 25.12 Adds More Devices and UI Updates  gHacks Technology News

Linux postmarketOS 25.12 Adds More Devices and UI Updates  gHacks Technology News

CachyOS vs. Nobara: Which obscure Linux distro is right for you?  ZDNET

Itching to Try the Hot COSMIC DE on Ubuntu Linux? Here's an Easy Way  It's FOSS

theodp writes: We all mix pictures, emojis, and text freely in our communications. So why not in our code? That's the premise of "Fun With Python and Emoji: What Might Adding Pictures to Text Programming Languages Look Like?" (two-image Bluesky explainer; full slides), which takes a look at what mixing emoji with Python and SQL might look like. A GitHub repo includes a Google Colab-ready Python notebook proof of concept that does rudimentary emoji-to-text translation via an IPython input transformer. So, in the Golden Age of AI -- some 60+ years after Kenneth Iverson introduced the chock-full-of-symbols APL -- are valid technical reasons still keeping symbols and pictures out of code, or is their absence more of a programming dogma thing?

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Arch Linux Drops Support for NVIDIA Pascal and Older GPUs  TechPowerUp

Arch Linux Drops Support for NVIDIA Pascal and Older GPUs  TechPowerUp

Arch Linux Drops Support for NVIDIA Pascal and Older GPUs  TechPowerUp

Elementary OS 8.1 rolls out with a stronger focus on system security  Help Net Security

Surfshark’s Dedicated IP Is Now on Linux  VICE

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Besgnulinux, a Debian-based Linux distribution with the lightweight JWM window manager as the preferred desktop user interface, has been updated to version 3-2. The new release is available in three separate editions - "Full", "Simple" and "Core". While the first two come with a full graphical environment (the....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The postmarketOS team has announced a new version of its operating system for mobile devices and desktop computers. The new version, 25.12, is based on Alpine Linux 3.23 and includes several improvements from the upgrade, along with updates to the distribution's user interfaces. "As always we target the....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. elementary OS is an Ubuntu-based distribution which runs the Pantheon desktop environment. The project's latest release is version 8.1 and it incorporates several small improvements and enhancements all across the desktop, package management, and display stack. Support for ARM hardware has also improved: "Today, we are proud to....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Talos, a specialist Linux-based operating system for running Kubernetes, has been updated to version 1.12.0. This release introduces new network configuration documents, new user volume types, and updates to disk encryption: "Welcome to the v1.12.0 release of Talos. What's new? The Kubernetes API server in Talos has been....