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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 15th, 2025  9to5Linux

Linux 6.16-rc2 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes  Phoronix

Following the release of Linux 6.16-rc1 last Sunday that capped off the Linux 6.16 merge window, Linux 6.16-rc2 is now available with an initial week's worth of bug/regression fixes. Linux 6.16 development continues in aiming toward a stable release around the end of July...

High Tide (GTK4/libadwaita TIDAL Client for Linux) Hits Flathub  OMG! Ubuntu

Kubuntu Focus M2 Gen 6: Powerful Linux laptop launches with RTX 5070 Ti, Ultra 9 275HX and space for up to 96 GB RAM  Notebookcheck

Back in May a big patch series was published for reworking the Linux kernel to make the SMP support unconditional. Right now those that happen to be running Linux in a uniprocessor (1 CPU core) configuration can build with "CONFIG_SMP" disabled but the proposed patches would make symmetric multi-processing support always present. Those patches took a step forward this week and could be merged for the Linux 6.17 cycle later in the summer...

Linux 6.17 Looks Like It Could Go Ahead And Make SMP Support Unconditional  Phoronix

Digital sovereignty or digital disaster? Denmark’s risky plan to break up with Microsoft is underway  TechRadar

I switched to NixOS after using Windows my whole life, and here’s how it went  XDA

I Dug Up the Biggest Files on My Linux PC, Here's What I Found  How-To Geek

The X.Org Server has been seeing a lot of commits this week... to revert bad code...

While the Linux 6.16 merge window just passed one week ago, already there are new feature changes beginning to queue for the Linux 6.17 kernel later in the summer...

Prominent AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák this week landed a number of fixes for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code in working to enable medium precision "mediump" support for this open-source graphics driver...

PeaZip 10.5 Brings Major Performance Boost to the File and Archive Manager  9to5Linux

PeaZip 10.5 Brings Major Performance Boost to the File and Archive Manager  9to5Linux

How to Install and Use Linux Apps on a Chromebook  Yahoo

How to Install and Use Linux Apps on a Chromebook  How-To Geek

Linux 6.15 mistakenly shipped with a nasty power regression for some systems, such as those relying on the "nosmt" option to disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading / Hyper Threading. That idle power regression was fixed for Linux 6.15.2 and Linux 6.16 Git by reverting the troubled patch that introduced the regression. Now merged ahead of Linux 6.16-rc2 is a proper fix for that problematic patch so it could be re-merged without the power fallout...

Linux 6.16 Lands Proper Power Management Fix For Code That Caused Power Regression  Phoronix

Why I Love My New Linux Window Manager  How-To Geek