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Btrfs With Linux 6.2 Bringing Performance Improvements, Better RAID 5/6 Reliability  Phoronix

The Btrfs and EXT4 file-system updates for the Linux 6.2 merge window have been submitted. The Btrfs changes are rather notable with continued performance enhancements as well as making some reliability improvements to its native RAID5/RAID6 modes...

Try Ubuntu Daily Builds on Windows With Ubuntu Preview for WSL  MUO - MakeUseOf

After being in various forms of discussion since 2017, IOMMUFD has been submitted for the Linux 6.2 kernel as it lays the groundwork for aiming to overhaul IOMMU handling by QEMU and virtual machines on Linux...

IOMMUFD Submitted For Linux 6.2 To Overhaul IOMMU Handling  Phoronix

Chained Echoes is as close as you can get to retro-styled RPG perfection  GamingOnLinux

Latest Kdenlive Video Editor Release Brings Major Overhaul to Guide/Marker System, More  9to5Linux

Humble Bundle are bringing back popular limited bundles throughout this week  GamingOnLinux

The 10 Best Crypto Wallets To Try in 2022  Yahoo Entertainment

While now in the code freeze for Wine 8.0 as the next annual stable release of Wine for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux, one of the features that didn't make it is the long in-development Wayland driver. Thankfully though the Wayland driver continues to mature and it looks like early next year following Wine 8.0 it might finally be upstreamed...

How to enable folder colors in Ubuntu-based Linux distributions  ZDNet

How to enable folder colors in Ubuntu-based Linux distributions  ZDNet

Chaos RAT Used to Enhance Linux Cryptomining Attacks  Infosecurity Magazine

Firefox 108 is now available for download as the last major Firefox web browser release of 2022...

GOG are giving away Ghost of a Tale during their 2022 Winter Sale  GamingOnLinux

Linux Operating System Market is estimated to reached value USD 5.73 Billion by 2028, registering a CAGR of 18.3 %; top leading players Amazon web services, Canonical Ltd, IBM Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Clear Center  Digital Journal

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX + RX 7900 XT Linux Support & Performance Review  Phoronix

Today's the day that the embargo expires on being able to provide reviews on the AMD Radeon RX 7900 series graphics cards... After testing both the Radeon RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX graphics cards the past two weeks, today I have the initial performance numbers to share on these graphics cards and the current state of the open-source Linux graphics driver for these first RDNA3 graphics cards. Here is the first look at AMD's new flagship desktop Radeon graphics cards running under Linux with fully upstream and open-source graphics drivers.

Cryptocurrency Mining Campaign Hits Linux Users with Go-based CHAOS Malware  The Hacker News

Open source: Linux 6.1 stable lands, here's what you need to know  ZDNet