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There is a lot of exciting file-system changes landing for the Linux 6.16 kernel... EXT4 brings a "really stupendous performance" change, Btrfs also brings some performance improvements, XFS landed atomic writes, and Bcachefs continues stabilizing. For the EROFS read-only file-system its changes have been merged and includes support for Intel QAT acceleration...

Canonical To Release Monthly Ubuntu Snapshots For Testing & Building Out Automation  Phoronix

Canonical is sticking to Ubuntu Linux releases every six months and a Long Term Support (LTS) release every two years, but a new change to their development process is that they are now working to release monthly Ubuntu snapshots of their testing stream...

Intel engineers have added yet more PCI graphics device IDs for Battlemage to their open-source driver code within Mesa for Iris OpenGL and ANV Vulkan driver support...

More Intel Battlemage Graphics PCI IDs Added To Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers  Phoronix

With the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates sent out this week for the Linux 6.16 kernel there is support for a number of newer Intel hardware platforms...

Intel Hardware Support Expanded In EDAC Drivers For Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Microsoft Quietly Released a Dope New Terminal-based Editor  It's FOSS News

Sardina throws bait toward SUSE Enterprise Storage users  theregister.com

FOSS Weekly #25.22: Microsoft's Vim Alternative, Kernel 6.15, UBXI Desktop, End of Ubuntu 20.04 and More  It's FOSS

Rusticl as Mesa's Rust-based OpenCL driver implementation for Gallium3D drivers is ending the month of May on a high note... Merged this week was support for the Intel Subgroups OpenCL extension (cl_intel_subgroups) and before getting to that on my TODO list, an even bigger item was merged: Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support...

Mythbuntu: What Happened to Ubuntu for TV?  How-To Geek

PumaBot Malware Targets Linux IoT Devices  Bank Info Security

PumaBot Malware Targets Linux IoT Devices  GovInfoSecurity

VirtualBox 7.2 Beta Brings Windows 11 Arm Support, Source Code On GitHub  Phoronix

Oracle engineers have released the first public beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 7.2 virtualization software release for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris systems...

The hearty set of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver changes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel. Most notable is preliminary NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support atop the mainline kernel with an open-source driver but there are also big ticket items added for the AMD Radeon/Instinct and Intel graphics drivers too as well as the other smaller drivers...

Linux 6.16 GPU Driver Changes Land: NVIDIA Blackwell, Asahi UAPI, Intel Xe Fan Speeds  Phoronix

The initial release candidate of Git 2.50 is now available for this widely-used, distributed version control system...

TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen7 Linux Laptop Unveiled with 128 GB RAM, HDR Display  9to5Linux