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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Ship With Some Extra GNOME Performance Optimizations  Phoronix

In addition to the GNOME triple buffering patches that still haven't been merged to Mutter's mainline branch, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and upstream Debian are slated to currently carry a few extra performance optimizations...

Critical Linux Security Updates for Debian 12 and Debian 11  Security Boulevard

THE FINALS now appears to work on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux  GamingOnLinux

While not as notable as the Bcachefs additions, more work on XFS online repair, and other file-system updates for Linux 6.8, the Btrfs file-system driver changes for Linux 6.8 were merged last week...

Btrfs In Linux 6.8 Transitions Metadata Processing To Using Folios  Phoronix

openSUSE Leap 16 Confirmed, Will Be Based on SUSE’s New Adaptable Linux Platform  9to5Linux

Libvirt as the virtualization API/toolkit developed by Red Hat for managing virtualization on Linux is out today with its v10.0 release...

libvirt 10.0 Released With QEMU VM Migration Improvements  Phoronix

openSUSE Leap 16 is expected to be released next year based on the Adaptable Linux Platform  Notebookcheck.net

GodotOS is a fun showcase of Godot Engine with a fake operating system interface  GamingOnLinux

GNOME 45.3 Released to Allow Sharing of WPA3 (SAE) Networks with QR Code  9to5Linux

openSUSE Leap 16: Redefining the Linux OS Landscape  BNN Breaking

It shouldn't come as much of a surprise, but openSUSE today reaffirmed that openSUSE Leap 16 will succeed the current Leap 15 series. OpenSUSE Leap 16 will be based on SUSE's Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP) codebase...

openSUSE Prepares For openSUSE Leap 16 Next Year Based On ALP  Phoronix

Embark Studios' The Finals free-to-play first person shooter has proven quite popular since its release in early December. The Finals is a game powered by Unreal Engine 5 that has been running on Linux thanks to Valve's Steam Play (Proton + VKD3D-Proton). With the latest Mesa driver activity, Intel Arc Graphics on Linux with their open-source driver can now handle this popular game...

"The Finals" Can Run With Intel Graphics On Linux When Hiding The Fact It's An Intel GPU  Phoronix

Merged last week to the mainline kernel were all of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem driver updates for the Linux 6.8 cycle, which includes introducing the Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO driver...

Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce Driver Merged For Linux 6.8  Phoronix

Tom Stellard announced plans this past week for releasing the LLVM 18 compiler stack in early March...