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Firefox 146 Released with Fractional Scaling Support on Linux,  OMG! Ubuntu

Benchmarks show Windows can still outperform SteamOS on dedicated GPUs  TechSpot

Beginning with the Linux 6.19 kernel, the hung task detector and system lock-up detector are now optionally able to provide greater insight into the issues by dumping additional system information. The new lockup_sys_info and hung_task_sys_info sysctl knobs were merged over as part of the pull requests managed by Andrew Morton...

Google engineers for the past number of months have been working on the Live Update Orchestrator as a new way of applying live Linux kernel updates. The Live Update Orchestrator "LUO" builds atop the Kexec Handover "KHO" functionality already within the kernel. Google has since been deplyoing LUO in their production environments for faster security updates to kernels, especially when involving VMs. LUO is now upstream in Linux 6.19...

Meson 1.10 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular cross-platform build system...

Use Actiona to Automate Your Linux Desktop Without Touching the Terminal  Make Tech Easier

The Mozilla Firefox 146.0 release binaries are now available with a very exciting improvement for Linux users relying on Wayland...

Firefox 146 Now Available With Native Fractional Scaling On Wayland  Phoronix

Recently there were Phoronix benchmarks looking at the Intel Battlemage GPU compute performance since last year when the Arc B580 graphics card launched as well as the OpenGL and Vulkan graphics performance for the B580 on Linux since launch. There was much progress on the open-source Intel Linux graphics drivers at large this year but especially for Battlemage. Following that a Phoronix Premium reader asked about seeing some fresh Llama.cpp AI benchmarks with its Vulkan back-end now for the Arc B580 compared to competing AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards. Here are those benchmarks as requested.

Intel Arc B580 vs. AMD Radeon RX 9000 vs. NVIDIA RTX 50 Series For Llama.cpp Vulkan Performance  Phoronix

While just half-way through the Linux 6.19 merge window, over the weekend I began running some benchmarks of the current Linux 6.19 Git state compared to Linux 6.18 LTS stable. There are some minor performance improvements to note in a few of the tests on the first system I tested but also some regressions at this very early pre-RC1 state of the Linux 6.19 kernel...

Early Benchmarks Of Linux 6.19 Git Raising Some Concerns  Phoronix

One of the new Linux engineering initiatives out of AMD is working to further enhance Linux performance on today's large core count systems by introducing push-based load balancing...

AMD Working On Push-Based Load Balancing For Linux To Further Enhance Performance  Phoronix

Firefox 146 Is Out with Native Support for Fractional Scaled Displays on Wayland  9to5Linux

Homebrew 5.0.4 Update Adds Flatpak Support for Cross-Platform Apps  WebProNews

5 free, open-source card games for bored Linux users  How-To Geek

This Could Be The Linux Phone We All Have Been Waiting For  It's FOSS

Best Programmer Laptops 2025 : Top Picks for Coding, AI, Linux & More  Geeky Gadgets

Several Logitech Devices Seeing New/Improved Support With Linux 6.19  Phoronix