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Planetary Annihilation: TITANS gets revived as the devs ask for Linux help and feedback  GamingOnLinux

With sched_ext there is support for BPF-based CPU scheduling policies for the Linux kernel while now a new initiative is working on BPF-based I/O schedulers...

Even if you have 16GB of RAM, this one "compressed swap" trick makes Linux significantly smoother  How-To Geek

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS beta sports GNOME 50 and the Linux kernel 7.0  Notebookcheck

In addition to this week's ROCm 7.2.1 stable point release, ROCm 7.12 was also released as the newest tech preview in working toward what will presumably be called ROCm 8.0...

An important set of Linux scheduler patches were posted for review on Thursday for improving the SMT-aware asymmetric CPU capacity handling. These patches to improve the Linux kernel scheduler around CPU Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) is needed after NVIDIA engineers discovered up to a ~2x performance drop for CPU-intensive workloads on their upcoming Vera Rubin platform...

Linux Patches Posted To Fix ~2x Performance Drop For CPU Workloads On NVIDIA Vera Rubin  Phoronix

Another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver improvements were sent out this week as feature development for DRM-Next ahead of Linux 7.1 begins to wind down...

Red Hat Warns of Malware Code Embedded in Popular Linux Tool Allow Unauthorized Access to Systems  CyberSecurityNews

Red Hat Warns of Malware Embedded in Popular Linux Tool Allowing Unauthorized Access  cyberpress.org

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta released with GNOME 50, Linux kernel 7.0, Mesa 26  GamingOnLinux

Samsung One UI 8.5 unlocks ‘desktop-like’ power with Linux GUI apps  Sammy Fans

This non-Chromium Linux browser can run Chrome, Firefox, and Safari extensions  XDA

Samsung phones get major Linux Terminal upgrades thanks to One UI 8.5  Android Authority

Calibre 9.6 Adds New Card-Based View of Full-Text Search Results with Book Covers  9to5Linux

Extending the counted_by Attribute to Pointers inside Structures in GCC16  Oracle Blogs

Released today was wlroots 0.20 as this Wayland support library used by some Wayland compositors for doing much of the "heavy lifting" of compositor bring-up. Following wlroots 0.20, Sway 1.12-rc1 was released for testing as this closely-aligned Wayland compositor inspired by the i3 window manager...

Right on schedule the beta for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is now available for testing. This is a great opportunity to help test this release ahead of the official Long Term Support release due out on 23 April...

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Released: Powered By Linux 7.0 + GNOME 50 + Mesa 26.0  Phoronix

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4.21 is now Generally Available. The release of Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4.21 introduces new capabilities that simplify virtual machine (VM) management, enhance operational efficiency, and expand deployment flexibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This release brings streamlined VM administration with multi-cluster management, guided networking configuration through new physical and virtual network creation workflows, and generative AI–powered assistance with OpenShift Lightspeed integrated directly into virtualization operations. Addi