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KDE Plasma 6.7 Ready With Wayland Session Management, Other New Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 04/18/2026 - 18:05
KDE Plasma 6.7 enjoyed a lot of recent feature development work thanks to a developer sprint in Graz, Austria. Also because of that developer sprint, This Week In Plasma wasn't published last week and so in turn a new issue is now available to highlight the changes over the past two weeks...

sort and uniq: Clean and Count Log File Entries in Linux

Tecmint - Sat, 04/18/2026 - 14:36
The post sort and uniq: Clean and Count Log File Entries in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In this guide, we’ll show you how to use sort and uniq together to deduplicate, count, and summarize log file

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The "NTFS Resurrection" Has Occurred For Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Sat, 04/18/2026 - 08:57
As a very exciting follow-up to the recent article around the new NTFS driver being submitted for Linux 7.1 to address the shortcomings of the current Paragon NTFS3 driver and the prior read-only NTFS kernel driver, that work has been merged!..

AMD FP-DSS Security Bug For Zen 1 CPUs Made Public, Linux Kernel Patched

Phoronix - Sat, 04/18/2026 - 08:35
Made public today was the Floating Point Divider State Sampling bug (stylized as FP-DSS or FPDSS) affecting original AMD Zen 1 (and Zen 1+) processors. The Linux kernel is already to go with a security fix for those still relying on the very first Ryzen or EPYC processors...

Wine 11.7 Brings VBScript Fixes, DirectSound 7.1 Channel Support

Phoronix - Sat, 04/18/2026 - 08:24
For those using upstream Wine for running your Windows games/apps on Linux rather than the likes of the Proton 11.0 beta, out today is Wine 11.7 as the newest bi-weekly development release...

Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Linux Graphics Performance Up ~17% Over Past Year

Phoronix - Fri, 04/17/2026 - 22:52
Given the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release being imminent and also realizing it's been nearly one year to the day since reviewing the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition laptop under Linux, I ran some fresh benchmarks for seeing how the integrated Xe2 graphics have evolved on Linux over the past year.

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