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Linux Mint 22.3 release will be a short cycle, immediate focus is LMDE 7  Neowin

AI-powered Pentesting Tool 'Villager' Combines Kali Linux Tools with DeepSeek AI for Automated Attacks  CybersecurityNews

Three alternative microkernels show devs don't need Linux  theregister.com

Last month I provided a fresh look at the Intel Arc A-Series graphics between the i915 and Xe kernel graphics drivers for Linux systems. The aging i915 driver is the default for the Alchemist GPUs but there is "experimental" support with the modern Xe kernel graphics driver. There were some performance advantages for the Arc A-Series if switching over to that newer driver option. Similarly, there are advantages with Meteor Lake too when moving from the i915 to Xe Linux drivers. Here are benchmarks to quantify that advantage.

Intel i915 vs. Xe Graphics Driver Benchmarks For Meteor Lake: Extra Performance In 2025  Phoronix

A few days ago I wrote about Intel fixing some Panther Lake Xe3 graphics performance issues ahead of launch. The downside of those performance optimizations for Panther Lake was that they led to longer shader compilation times. The good news though is that some separate improvements were merged now for Mesa 25.3 to help enhance the Intel graphics shader compilation performance...

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Seeing 2~5% Faster Shader Compilation Times, Up To ~20%  Phoronix

Dash to Panel GNOME Shell Extension Gets GNOME 49 Support and New Features  9to5Linux

While Linux Mint 22.2 was just released one week ago, Linux Mint developers are planning for a Linux Mint 22.3 update before year's end...

3 Super Useful Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (September 12 - 14)  Yahoo! Tech

3 Super Useful Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (September 12 - 14)  How-To Geek

Q4OS 6.1 Distro Is Out Based on Debian 13 with KDE Plasma and Trinity Desktops  9to5Linux

I'm out, says OpenSUSE: We're dropping bcachefs support from next kernel version  theregister.com

LMDE 7 Will Be Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”, Linux Mint 22.3 Planned for December  9to5Linux

Nano11 slashes Windows 11 to 2.8GB by cutting 'fluff' — but there’s a catch  Windows Central

Fish 4.0.6 is out as the newest update to this shell that with Fish 4.0 was rewritten in Rust from C++...

Samba 4.23 is out today as the newest version of this SMB protocol re-implementation for file and print services interoperability with the Microsoft Windows world...

This week's round of power management fixes for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel are on the more notable side with fixes for both AMD and Intel P-State drivers plus addressing a system hibernation issue that could lead to "serious breakage" and stems from a Linux 6.16 regression...

It was just two days ago that Fwupd 2.0.15 released with new hardware support and other improvements. That has already been replaced by Fwupd 2.0.16...

These 5 tips made my transition from Windows to Linux much easier  MakeUseOf