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[Phoronix] Wine 11.0 Released With Many Improvements For Windows Games & Apps On Linux

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[Phoronix] Wine 11.0 Released With Many Improvements For Windows Games & Apps On Linux
As expected, Wine 11.0 stable was officially released today. This is a big step forward for this open-source software to run Windows games and applications on…
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January 13, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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[Linuxiac] Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server Remain the World's Most Popular Databases

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[Linuxiac] Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server Remain the World's Most Popular Databases
Relational databases continued to dominate enterprise and cloud workloads in 2025, according to DB-Engines' popularity trends. Source:…
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January 13, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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[Phoronix] Intel's Fantastic New Open-Source Demonstrator For AMX-BF16: Over 4x The Performance At 69% The Power

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[Phoronix] Intel's Fantastic New Open-Source Demonstrator For AMX-BF16: Over 4x The Performance At 69% The Power
When it comes to software leveraging Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) functionality in modern Xeon processors, it's largely been limited to AI…
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January 13, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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[9to5Linux] NVIDIA 580.126.09 Released to Improve Compatibility with Recent Linux Kernels

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[9to5Linux] NVIDIA 580.126.09 Released to Improve Compatibility with Recent Linux Kernels
NVIDIA 580.126.09 graphics driver for Linux is now available for download with improved compatibility with recent Linux kernel versions. Source:…
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January 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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[Phoronix] FFmpeg Merges A Number Of Vulkan Improvements To Start 2026

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[Phoronix] FFmpeg Merges A Number Of Vulkan Improvements To Start 2026
FFmpeg developer Lynne has landed a number of Vulkan-related imporvements to this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Over the past year FFmpeg saw…
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January 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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[How-to Geek] 3 Linux Mint power-user features nobody talks about

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[How-to Geek] 3 Linux Mint power-user features nobody talks about
Mint's "beginner-friendly" reputation is hiding some serious power. Source: https://www.howtogeek.com/i-hated-linux-mint-until-i-discovered-these-features/…
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January 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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[Phoronix] wl-proxy Announced As Rust Crate For Proxying Wayland Connections

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[Phoronix] wl-proxy Announced As Rust Crate For Proxying Wayland Connections
Announced today on the Wayland mailing list is wl-proxy as a Rust crate for proxying Wayland connections and intercepting/manipulating Wayland messages...…
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January 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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[Phoronix] Haiku OS Pulls In Updated Drivers From FreeBSD 15

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[Phoronix] Haiku OS Pulls In Updated Drivers From FreeBSD 15
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project just published a new status report to detail how they ended out the year... Source:…
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January 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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[Linuxiac] Parrot 7.1 Through 7.3 Planned for 2026 as Focus Moves to AI Security

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[Linuxiac] Parrot 7.1 Through 7.3 Planned for 2026 as Focus Moves to AI Security
Parrot Linux plans versions 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3 throughout 2026, shifting its security research toward AI systems and real-world attack surfaces. Source:…
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January 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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[Linuxiac] Canonical Launches Minimal Ubuntu Pro for Secure Cloud Deployments

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[Linuxiac] Canonical Launches Minimal Ubuntu Pro for Secure Cloud Deployments
Canonical expands Ubuntu Pro to minimal cloud images available on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Source:…
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January 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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[LWN.net] Security updates for Monday

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[LWN.net] Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and sogo), Fedora (chromium, foomuuri, libpng, libsodium, mariadb10.11, musescore, nginx,…
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January 13, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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[How-to Geek] 4 productivity apps on Linux that replaced my favorite web apps

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[How-to Geek] 4 productivity apps on Linux that replaced my favorite web apps
They're all local, more secure and private, and completely free. Source: https://www.howtogeek.com/replacement-productivity-apps-on-linux/ Aggregated via…
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January 13, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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[9to5Linux] MX Linux 25.1 Beta Brings Back Dual-Init Support, Based on Debian 13.3

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[9to5Linux] MX Linux 25.1 Beta Brings Back Dual-Init Support, Based on Debian 13.3
MX Linux 25.1 is now available for public beta testing based on the Debian 13.3 release and powered by Linux kernel 6.12.63 LTS. Source:…
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January 13, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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[Phoronix] GCC 16 Compiler Steps Closer To Release With Algol 68 Frontend, AMD Zen 6, C++20 Default

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[Phoronix] GCC 16 Compiler Steps Closer To Release With Algol 68 Frontend, AMD Zen 6, C++20 Default
GCC 16 as this year's major feature release of the GNU Compiler Collection should be out in the typical March~April timeframe if all goes well. Today the GCC…
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January 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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[Phoronix] Nova Lake & Crescent Island Support Lands In The Intel Graphics Compiler

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[Phoronix] Nova Lake & Crescent Island Support Lands In The Intel Graphics Compiler
Released this morning is the Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.27.10 that comes with initial support for next-generation Nova Lake and Crescent Island Xe3P…
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January 13, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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[Linuxiac] Zorin OS 18 Hits 2 Million Downloads as Windows Users Drive Growth

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[Linuxiac] Zorin OS 18 Hits 2 Million Downloads as Windows Users Drive Growth
Zorin OS 18 has surpassed 2 million downloads in under three months, with more than three-quarters coming from former Windows users. Source:…
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January 13, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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[Phoronix] Wine 11.0 Planned For Release Tomorrow With NTSync Support, Better WoW64

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[Phoronix] Wine 11.0 Planned For Release Tomorrow With NTSync Support, Better WoW64
Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard relayed on the mailing list today that the plan is to release Wine 11.0 stable tomorrow, 13 January... Source:…
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January 13, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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[Phoronix] The Surprising Spectre BHI Mitigation Performance Impact On Meteor Lake

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[Phoronix] The Surprising Spectre BHI Mitigation Performance Impact On Meteor Lake
When recently carrying out performance benchmarks of Intel Meteor Lake performance on Linux since launch day two years ago, the geo mean came in at 93% the…
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January 13, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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[It's FOSS] Microsoft Open-Sources XAML Studio

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[It's FOSS] Microsoft Open-Sources XAML Studio
After 8 years, Microsoft's tool for designing Windows apps is now open source. Source: https://itsfoss.com/news/microsoft-open-sources-xaml-studio/ Aggregated…
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January 12, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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[Phoronix] Tinygrad 0.12 Released With Mesa NIR/NAK Support

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[Phoronix] Tinygrad 0.12 Released With Mesa NIR/NAK Support
Tinygrad 0.12 is out today for this deep learning stack led by George Hotz... Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tinygrad-0.12 Aggregated via Linux News
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January 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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[It's FOSS] auto-cpufreq 3.0 Arrives for Linux with Better Battery Handling and CPU Turbo Control

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[It's FOSS] auto-cpufreq 3.0 Arrives for Linux with Better Battery Handling and CPU Turbo Control
New release gives Linux laptop users more control over CPU performance while fixing battery detection issues. Source:…
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January 12, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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[OMG! Ubuntu] Firefox 147 Arrives with XDG Support on Linux, Auto-PiP + More

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[OMG! Ubuntu] Firefox 147 Arrives with XDG Support on Linux, Auto-PiP + More
Firefox 147 released with XDG directory support ending a 20-year Linux bug, auto Picture-in-Picture, better AMD video performance, and new web standards.…
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January 12, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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[Phoronix] Firefox 147 Now Available With XDG Base Directory Specification Support

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[Phoronix] Firefox 147 Now Available With XDG Base Directory Specification Support
Firefox 147.0 release binaries have hit the Mozilla servers today as the latest monthly update to this open-source web browser. Firefox 147 is exciting for…
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January 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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[Linux Journal] Introducing Loss32: A New Lightweight Linux Distro With a Focus on Legacy Hardware

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[Linux Journal] Introducing Loss32: A New Lightweight Linux Distro With a Focus on Legacy Hardware
by George Whittaker Introduction A fresh entry has just appeared in the world of Linux distributions: Loss32, a lightweight operating system built from…
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January 12, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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[9to5Linux] Firefox 147 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New

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[9to5Linux] Firefox 147 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New
Firefox 147 open-source web browser is now available for download with support for Freedesktop.org's XDG Base Directory Specification and other changes.…
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January 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM