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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 14th, 2025  9to5Linux

As the Linux 6.19 merge window winded down this weekend, I began running this development kernel on more systems. While there are some scheduler regressions currently with Linux 6.19 Git, for HPC workloads especially I am seeing some encouraging results using a flagship AMD EPYC 9965 2P server configuration.

Early Linux 6.19 Benchmarks On AMD EPYC 9965 2P Excelling For AI & HPC Performance  Phoronix

The CentOS kernel modules "Kmods" special interest group (SIG) is now providing NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules for users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its downstreams as well as for CentOS Stream...

CentOS Kmods SIG Providing NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules For RHEL/CentOS Users  Phoronix

APT vs Pacman: Which Linux package manager is better for beginners  How-To Geek

Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.19 Release Candidate  9to5Linux

The FamFS file-system being developed by Micron hopes to go upstream for Linux in "early-ish 2026"...

FamFS Hopes To Go Upstream In 2026  Phoronix

I stopped using Linux for a year, here's what brought me back  How-To Geek

Cybersecurity News Weekly Newsletter – Windows, Chrome, and Apple 0-days, Kali Linux 2025.4, and MITRE Top...  CybersecurityNews

I switched from Windows to Linux and these 4 habits held me back  How-To Geek

53 years later, bus standard launched by HP in 1972 gets stable Linux driver — General Purpose Interface Bus has blistering 8 MB/s of bandwidth  Tom's Hardware

I tried Pop!_OS for a week: Here's what worked for me and what didn’t  How-To Geek

The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged initial support for JPEG-XS...

Rust Coreutils 0.5 is now available as the latest milestone for this Rust-based alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.5 continues moving closer to "full GNU compatibility" with nearly a 90% pass rate on the GNU test suite...

Linux 6.19-rc1 Released From Japan  Phoronix

The Linux 6.19-rc1 kernel is out to cap off the Linux 6.19 merge window. The kernel release is coming the better part of a day earlier due to Linus Torvalds being in Japan for this past week's Linux Plumbers Conference and Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit...

For those with fond memories of the original Puppy Linux as a lightweight Linux distribution that used to run well back in the day on systems with less than 1GB of RAM, TrixiePup64 is out with a new release of this Puppy Linux based distribution with Debian GNU/Linux components. The new TrixiePup64 11.2 release is based on the latest Debian Trixie sources while continuing to offer separate builds for either X11 or Wayland usage...

TrixiePup64 11.2 Released For Debian-Based Puppy Linux With Wayland & X11 Options  Phoronix