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Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux  Phoronix

The sound subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 that include some new hardware support and other useful additions...

Linux 7.1 Sound Code Adds Bus Keepers: Aiming For Better Apple Silicon Support  Phoronix

The popular Arch Linux based CachyOS has now rolled out the Linux 7.0 kernel to its users. But beyond re-basing against the latest upstream kernel version it is also carrying some extra patches...

CachyOS Rolls Out A Super-Charged Linux 7.0 Kernel  Phoronix

Intel QAT Zstd, QAT Gen6 Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1  Phoronix

In addition to the notable libcrypto optimizations and improvements merged during this first week of the Linux 7.1 merge window, the main cryptography subsystem pull was also merged. Notable here are the Intel QuickAssist (QAT) improvements...

Linux Kernel 7.1 Merges New NTFS Driver With Full Write Support  Linuxiac

Linux 7.1 switches Kaveri, Kabini, and Mullins to AMDGPU  igor´sLAB

Type with your voice on Linux using this Whisper-based app  omgubuntu.co.uk

The block subsystem and IO_uring changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 in continuing to enhance Linux storage capabilities...

Linux is getting optimized for better gaming on low VRAM GPUs  HWCooling.net

GhostBSD 26.1-R15.0p2 released today as a big upgrade for this desktop-focused, BSD operating system derived from FreeBSD...

The AMD Machine Check Exception "mce_amd" driver as part of the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem is introducing support for new SMCA bank types on AMD platforms. Given the timing these new bank types are presumably for AMD's upcoming Zen 6 / EPYC Venice hardware...

For those making use of the WireGuard open-source, secure VPN tunnel software, WireGuard For Windows 1.0 is finally available...

Solus 4.9 Released With Linux 6.18, Mesa 26, and Installer Upgrades  Linuxiac

Solus 4.9 “Serenity” Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, KDE Plasma 6.6, and More  9to5Linux

Skip the tutorials and build something real: Learn Linux the easy way  How-To Geek

Valve's Proton 11 beta unlocks more playable games and boosts performance for Steam Deck and Linux fans  TweakTown

NVIDIA keeps neglecting frame gen on Linux, so I turned to this $7 alternative instead  How-To Geek