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Following the unboxing embargo earlier this week for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, today the review embargo lifts for the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition...

Linux 'fascinates and terrifies' the dev of DEAD LETTER DEPT. but they're supporting it anyway  GamingOnLinux

The crypto subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.14 kernel. Notable this time are new x86_64-specific optimizations for the AES-GCM and AES-XTS algorithms. Benefiting the most from these new x86_64 optimizations are recent AMD processors...

Faster AES-GCM & AES-XTS Crypto Performance For AMD CPUs With Linux 6.14  Phoronix

WINE introduces version 10.0 of Windows compatibility tool  Techzine Europe

How to install GE-Proton on Steam Deck, SteamOS, Linux  GamingOnLinux

Newer laptops pre-loaded with Microsoft Windows have begun adding a "Copilot" key for launching Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant or other "chatbot" software. With the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel, that key will be mapped out correctly so that user-space software can determine the behavior for handling that key's action on the Linux desktop...

Linux 6.14 Adds Support For The Microsoft Copilot Key Found On New Laptops  Phoronix

The Tuned software from Red Hat is a daemon for Linux monitoring and adaptive performance tuning as an alternative to the likes of power-profiles-daemon. Tuned ships with various profiles and allows different features for tuning the Linux system performance for HPC compute, enterprise storage, balanced battery for laptops, and dozens of other scenarios. Red Hat this week debuted the first release candidate of the upcoming Tuned 2.25...

Red Hat Preparing Tuned 2.25 Daemon For Linux Monitoring & Adaptive Performance Tuning  Phoronix

Along with other VFS pull requests for Linux 6.14 to introduce STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN, adding a new mountinfo program, VirtualBox guest support for ARM64 VMs, and faster /proc/kcore reading, another VFS pull for this new kernel brings a minor performance optimization...

With the newest code merged for Mesa 25.0, the Panfrost PanVK driver is exposing Vulkan 1.1 support on Arm Valhall "v10" graphics processors...

Linux kernel 6.13 is out now  GamingOnLinux

OpenZFS 2.3 is here, with RAID expansion and faster dedup  The Register

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The Landlock Linux security module that was added to the mainline Linux kernel four years ago for unprivileged application sandboxing and similar access controls has a rather weird update for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel: Land lock can now deal with "weird files"...

Oracle emits 603 patches, names one it wants you to worry about soon  The Register

With Debian 13 due out in the coming months, the Debian 13 artwork/theme was recently announced as well as the Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 release. The latest is the freeze dates for Debian 13.0 being announced today...

LibreELEC 12.0.2, the Linux distribution for Kodi, gets feature-packed Omega 21.2 update  BetaNews