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Linux Mint 22.2 ‘Zara’ released with native fingerprint support – also has a new syncing sticky note system  Tom's Hardware

These 5 Arch distros are worth checking out if you love the bleeding-edge Linux king  xda-developers.com

Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now with Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

Linux Kernel 6.17 Boosts EXT4 Scalability for Cloud Workloads  WebProNews

Linux Mint 22.2 Arrives With Theme Updates, Better Fingerprint Support, and More  Yahoo! Tech

My favorite Linux distro just got even better with Linux Mint 22.2 'Zara' - what's new  ZDNET

Linux 6.17 With EXT4 Showing Some Nice Performance Improvements  Phoronix

With the Linux 6.17 kernel there are some block allocation scalability improvements for EXT4 on top of other file-system enhancements with this new kernel and other new features. Linux 6.17 performance has been looking good and when drilling down to the EXT4 file-system performance, it's looking extremely good. Here are some benchmarks of EXT4 on Linux 6.17 compared to the 6.15 and 6.16 stable kernels.

AMD engineers have submitted a HIP-RT update for Blender developers ahead of the big Blender 5.0 release to enhance the RDNA4 ray-tracing performance...

HIP-RT Update For Blender 5.0 To Deliver Improved Ray-Tracing On RDNA4 GPUs  Phoronix

Linux Lite relief: 7.6 keeps it simple, shiny, and mostly slim  theregister.com

Get some fabulous indie games in the Indie Likes & Lites Humble Bundle  GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA engineer Ankit Agrawal today posted a request for comments (RFC) patch series working on Linux virtualization support for Extended GPU Memory (EGM)...

NVIDIA Posts Initial Linux Patches For Extended GPU Memory "EGM" Virtualization  Phoronix

Linux Mint 22.2 Zara arrives as a long term support release backed until 2029  BetaNews

Following sudo-rs becoming the default sudo implementation in Ubuntu 25.10 as of a few days ago, Canonical is also proceeding with its transition of using the Rust version of Coreutils for this next Ubuntu Linux release...

Ubuntu 25.10 Proceeding With Its Rust Coreutils Transition  Phoronix

With Windows 10’s end approaching, experts forecast gradual move to Windows 11 until 2026  Windows Central

How to Install and Uninstall VLC Player on Linux  Techloy

Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" is officially out now  GamingOnLinux