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This week saw an updated KDE Plasma 6.3 beta release and more bug fixing taking place there while also beginning to see early feature work toward the follow-on Plasma 6.4 desktop...

Andrew Morton made for an exciting Friday evening by sending out his "MM" pull request for Linux 6.14 as the large collection of memory management related patches for this next kernel version...

How to use the Whereis command  Network World

How to create infinite loops in the Linux command line  Network World

Linux rolls out the welcome mat for Microsoft's Copilot key  The Register

The four SoC pull requests were sent out today for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window. These pull requests are principally about various ARM SoC and platform hardware additions/changes but also an increasing number of RISC-V SoC activity too...

Linux 6.14 Adds Support For Blaize BLZP1600, SpacemiT K1 & Snapdragon 8 Elite SoCs  Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.306 was published this morning as the newest routine specification update to this graphics/compute API...

Ubuntu 24.04.2 Arrives Feb 13 with Linux Kernel 6.11  OMG! Ubuntu!

While there have been a lot of GeForce RTX 5090 Windows gaming benchmarks since the review embargo lift yesterday, for those more fascinated by this high-end Blackwell desktop graphics card for its GPU compute potential on Linux, this article is for you. Up today are my very initial GPU compute benchmarks for the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition on Linux with NVIDIA graphics card comparisons across the prior RTX 20, RTX, 30, and RTX 40 series too.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Linux GPU Compute Performance Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Several of the upstream Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have become orphaned due to the unfortunately declining health of their lone driver maintainer...

Liberux Nexx: Linux smartphone with special features  digitec magazine

The Common Internet File System (CIFS) as an implementation of the SMB protocol for commonly sharing files with Windows systems will enjoy better read performance with the Linux 6.14 kernel...

Linux 6.14 Delivering Better Read Performance For CIFS  Phoronix

Games to claim from Prime Gaming, Jan 24 edition round-up for SteamOS Linux and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

While there are many exciting new features in the GNOME 48 Alpha as well as a new app with Decibels becoming the official audio player, there isn't a new official video player for this desktop release...

In addition to the Bcachefs features and new Btrfs code for Linux 6.14, the XFS file-system changes were merged on Thursday for this next version of the Linux kernel...

Now that NVIDIA is rolling out the "Blackwell" GPU driver support, it looks like the NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta generations will soon be moving to a legacy driver branch...

WINE 10 is still not an emulator, but Windows apps won't know the difference  The Register