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The GNOME 50 beta release is now available ahead of the official GNOME 50 desktop due out in March...

Linux Mint Signals Slower Release Cadence  findarticles.com

AerynOS is the atomic Linux distro nobody is talking about  XDA

GNOME 50 Desktop Environment Enters Public Beta Testing with More New Features  9to5Linux

Why my favorite Linux distro is slowing down - and I'm thrilled about it  ZDNET

One of the latest NVIDIA open-source contributions this week wasn't for the in-development Nova kernel driver but for enhancing the existing Nouveau kernel driver. The patch posted is for bringing up the NVIDIA GA100 GPU under Nouveau using the GPU System Processor (GSP)...

XFS Could Gain a Self-Healing Feature in Linux Kernel 7.0  Linuxiac

With the Serial Peripheral Interface "SPI" subsystem updates for the Linux 7.0 kernel comes support for multi-lane SPI...

Multi-Lane SPI Support Merged For Linux 7.0  Phoronix

4 systemd tools that make everyday Linux troubleshooting much easier  How-To Geek

Adding to the exciting features for the big Linux 7.0 kernel release is support for the Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm "ML-DSA" quantum-resistant signature algorithm...

AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization with Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) provides memory encryption and integrity protections that can be especially useful in modern cloud computing. Typically a 2~10% performance overhead is reported when engaging AMD SEV-SNP for these hardware-backed security protections. In this article is an extensive look at the current AMD SEV-SNP performance impact for confidential computing on EPYC 9005 "Turin" servers. The current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS was tested as well as an Ubuntu 26.04 development snapshot in evaluating the latest optimizations and what is on the horizon this year for AMD EPYC Linux server performance.

Putting Linux on a tablet? Here's 7 distros to try  How-To Geek

3 actually useful Linux apps to install this weekend (February 13 - 15)  How-To Geek

Dino Crisis 1 and 2 arrive on Steam but they need tweaks to run on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

Linux adoption accelerates as users seek alternatives to Windows 11  Technobezz

Take Control of systemd with This Rust-Based TUI Tool  Linuxiac

Linux Gets Rid Of Intel 440BX EDAC Driver For Old Pentium CPUs After Being Broken For 19+ Years  Phoronix

As some long overdue housekeeping, the Linux 7.0 kernel has removed an Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" driver for the Intel 440BX and 440GX chipset. The driver is being removed not only because that chipset was just used by old Celerons and Pentium II / Pentium III CPUs but that it's been in the kernel all this time while being known to be broken for 19+ years...

The slab memory allocator feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel. Most notable this cycle is expanded use of the recently-introduced Sheaves functionality...