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An important set of Linux scheduler patches were posted for review on Thursday for improving the SMT-aware asymmetric CPU capacity handling. These patches to improve the Linux kernel scheduler around CPU Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) is needed after NVIDIA engineers discovered up to a ~2x performance drop for CPU-intensive workloads on their upcoming Vera Rubin platform...

Linux Patches Posted To Fix ~2x Performance Drop For CPU Workloads On NVIDIA Vera Rubin  Phoronix

Another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver improvements were sent out this week as feature development for DRM-Next ahead of Linux 7.1 begins to wind down...

Red Hat Warns of Malware Code Embedded in Popular Linux Tool Allow Unauthorized Access to Systems  CyberSecurityNews

Red Hat Warns of Malware Embedded in Popular Linux Tool Allowing Unauthorized Access  cyberpress.org

Samsung One UI 8.5 unlocks ‘desktop-like’ power with Linux GUI apps  Sammy Fans

This non-Chromium Linux browser can run Chrome, Firefox, and Safari extensions  XDA

Samsung phones get major Linux Terminal upgrades thanks to One UI 8.5  Android Authority

Calibre 9.6 Adds New Card-Based View of Full-Text Search Results with Book Covers  9to5Linux

Released today was wlroots 0.20 as this Wayland support library used by some Wayland compositors for doing much of the "heavy lifting" of compositor bring-up. Following wlroots 0.20, Sway 1.12-rc1 was released for testing as this closely-aligned Wayland compositor inspired by the i3 window manager...

Right on schedule the beta for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is now available for testing. This is a great opportunity to help test this release ahead of the official Long Term Support release due out on 23 April...

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Released: Powered By Linux 7.0 + GNOME 50 + Mesa 26.0  Phoronix

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Is Out Now with Linux Kernel 7.0 and GNOME 50  9to5Linux

Merged today was the very first step toward implementing Vulkan support within KDE's KWin compositor as an alternative to OpenGL rendering...

From Linux to Blockchain: The Infrastructure Behind Modern Financial Systems  Linux Journal

VoidLink Rootkit Uses eBPF and Kernel Modules to Hide Deep Inside Linux Systems  CyberSecurityNews

How To Create File In Linux OS  About Chromebooks

CachyOS just dethroned Arch Linux on ProtonDB, and Linux gamers are finally noticing  XDA

Open-Source Nouveau Performance With Linux 7.0 + NVK Mesa 26.1-dev vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver  Phoronix

New OrcaSlicer Update Fixes 3MF Security Vulnerability, Shows Linux Some Love  All3DP