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ATI R300 GPU on a Medion Radeon 9600TX card
20-year-old ATI Radeon GPUs are still getting driver updates and extensions

By Mark Tyson Published

Two-decades old ATI Radeon R300 GPUs get updated Linux driver love.

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Floppy disk photo
Orphaned Linux drivers for floppy disks gets first patch of any significance in three years - cleanup effort implies floppies spared the axe for a few more years

By Mark Tyson Published

Linux gets it first floppy disk driver patch in three years.

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Linux is 34 years old today

By Mark Tyson Published

On this day 34 years ago, an unknown computer science student from Finland humbly announced that a new free operating system project was 'starting to get ready.'

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A hacker holding Tux the Penguin
Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks

By Les Pounder Published

The Arch Linux project team are working to mitigate the impact, while keeping details of who, why and how close to its chest

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Linuxfx
I've tried many Linux distros designed to look and feel like Windows, and this is the best one yet

By Les Pounder Published

It may look like Windows 11, but Linuxfx is really Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS in disguise. But to go far in the world of Linux you need more than good looks!

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Topgrade
I use one simple tool to update my Linux OS and all of its software in minutes — Topgrade auto-detects and updates all of my system via one command

By Les Pounder Published

Topgrade is one command that updates everything on your Linux, Windows and macOS machine.

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Intel Itanium Processor
Support for Intel's Itanium architecture is once again on the chopping block in GCC 16

By Aaron Klotz Published

Maintainers are discussing whether or not to remove IA-64 support from the GCC compiler once again. If their plans go through, IA-64 support could be dropped for GCC 16.

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Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds calls RISC-V code from Google engineer 'garbage' and that it 'makes the world actively a worse place to live'

By Mark Tyson Published

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has publicly dismissed a RISC-V code contribution from a Google engineer as 'garbage.'

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Major Intel Linux driver projects are dying due to Intel layoffs and corporate restructuring

By Aaron Klotz Published

Intel is continuing to drop more Linux maintainers and Linux drivers due to corporate restructuring within the company.

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AnduinOS
I took a look at AnduinOS, a Linux distro that feels like home for Windows users

By Les Pounder Published

More Windows, less pane

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