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EasyEffects is the open-source application formerly known as PulseEffects that transitioned to using native PipeWire filters for providing simple audio effects on the Linux desktop. EasyEffects makes it easy to apply different audio effects like bass enhancer, compressor, pitch shift, reverberation, and many more. With this week's release of EasyEffects 8.0, the user interface has been rewritten in Qt / QML / Kirigami rather than GTK4...

GStreamer 1.26.8 Improves HDR Video Playback for the Showtime Video Player  9to5Linux

AMD’s Linux Graphics Surge: Decoding the 6.19 Kernel Upgrades  WebProNews

Following yesterday's release of Rust Coreutils 0.4, GNU Coreutils 9.9 is now available as the latest update to this set of core utilities common to Linux systems and other platforms...

Linux 6.19’s Quiet Revival: Bolstering a 40-Year-Old File System  WebProNews

New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games  Ars Technica

Minisforum MS-R1 is a 12-Core Linux ARM Workstation for AI and VMs  OMG! Ubuntu

Linux Kernel’s Microsoft Makeover: Embracing C Extensions in 6.19  WebProNews

Amazon WorkSpaces for Linux flaw poses token theft risk  SC Media

Linux 6.18-rc5 Drops: Kernel’s Quiet March to December Debut  WebProNews

Rust Coreutils Surge: Outpacing GNU with Speed and Security Gains  WebProNews

Google Cloud today is rolling out their N4D compute instances that are optimized for cost/price-performance and geared for general purpose workloads. The N4D instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" processors and offer very nice performance and value over their prior-generation general purpose VMs.

Valve engineer who keeps decade-old Radeon GPUs alive on Linux, now pushes for AMDGPU to become the default driver  VideoCardz.com

22 Linux Books for $25: This Humble Bundle Is Absurdly Good Value  It's FOSS

D7VK brings Direct3D 7 to Linux using Vulkan based on DXVK  GamingOnLinux

THRASHER is thoroughly weird and it's out now as the follow up to THUMPER  GamingOnLinux

This Linux distro turned my spare PC into a personal cloud powerhouse - for free  ZDNET

Last week when delivering some CachyOS benchmarks against Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 on the Framework Desktop with AMD Ryzen AI Max+, a few Phoronix readers wrote in with the question or belief that openSUSE Tumbleweed would better perform against CachyOS given the distribution's select x86_64-v3 packages and other advantages. As it's been a while since running any benchmarks of the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed, here are those benchmarks now in the mix for seeing how the performance compares.

Firefox 145 release binaries are now available. Most notable with this release is what's not there: the 32-bit Linux builds are no more...

Firefox 145 Binaries Available - Aside From 32-bit Linux Being Removed  Phoronix