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Linux Kernel 6.14 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Highlights of Linux 6.14 include Btrfs RAID1 read balancing support, a new ntsync subsystem for Win NT synchronization primitives to boost game emulation with Wine, uncached buffered I/O support, and a new accelerator driver for the AMD XDNA Ryzen AI NPUs (Neural Processing Units).

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EndeavourOS Mercury Neo Launches with KDE Plasma 6.3, NVIDIA 570, and Mesa 25

EndeavourOS Mercury landed on February 10th, 2025, powered by Linux kernel 6.13 and featuring the KDE Plasma 6.2.5 desktop environment on both the live environment and the offline installation option. EndeavourOS Mercury Neo is here to bump the kernel to Linux 6.13.7 and the live session to KDE Plasma 6.3.3.

Rescuezilla 2.6 Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery Adds Ubuntu 24.10 Build

Highlights of Rescuezilla 2.6 include a brand-new base derived from the Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” operating system series to provide users with the best possible hardware support, as well as an updated UEFI Secure Boot shim package to support Windows 11 machines.

Finnix Linux Distro for Sysadmins Celebrates 25th Anniversary with New Release

Finnix 250 is here to celebrate the distro’s 25th anniversary, which is a huge milestone for such a small project. The first Finnix release was made public on March 22nd, 2000. Despite the small footprint, the Finnix distro ships with hundreds of Linux utilities for system recovery, maintenance, testing, and other system administration tasks.

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  1. Just Because People on Top of the Microsoft Pyramid Made a Lot of Money Doesn't Mean Microsoft is Wealthy
    The bigger they are the harder they fall

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  2. Links 05/02/2025: Kessler Syndrome and News Online
    Links for the day
  3. statCounter: Monaco Now 7% GNU/Linux ("Proper")
    GNU/Linux, not counting Chromebooks, is on the rise
  4. Many Parts of Google Lose Money
    It's quite apparent that many parts of Google - even some that rely on ad revenue or push ads - aren't profiting
  5. European Internet Forum (EIF) is Dominated by American Corporations and Microsoft Lobbyists, Staff Take the Lead
    Should the officials over here or the European Parliament pay attention to these people?
  6. IBM Red Hat on "era of cloud computing", pushing "hey hi" (AI) hype in Microsoft Azure
    LLM slop might actually be more benign than Microsoft promotion
  7. Links 05/02/2025: Connection without Connectivity and Unionised Grocery Workers
    Links for the day
  8. Gemini Links 05/02/2025: Learning, Madman Ruling a Mad Country, Back in Geminispace
    Links for the day
  9. statCounter Shows "WIntel" Chasing a Dying Market
    Microsoft acts as if it's running out of money
  10. Free Software Foundation, Inc. (FSF) Still Raising Money, Richard Stallman Contributes
    total exceeding $430k
  11. A Lot of Stuff About "Linux" in Google News is LLM Slop, Fake 'Articles'
    It seems to be getting worse
  12. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  13. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 04, 2025
    IRC logs for Tuesday, February 04, 2025
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Wednesday contains all the text.

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    1088 /n/2025/02/04/Anti_Linux_FUD_Sites_cybersecuritynews_com_and_gbhackers_com_Tu.shtml
    866 /n/2025/02/02/Yandex_Has_Nearly_Caught_Up_With_Microsoft_Internationally_Bing.shtml
    747 /n/2025/02/01/Arrested_Albanian_Outreachy_whistleblowers_Sonny_Piers_GNOME_De.shtml
    675 /browse/latest.shtml
    537 /n/2025/01/29/Links_29_01_2025_Data_Privacy_Day_and_Growing_Tensions_in_Europ.shtml
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