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Linux Mint 22.1 Released, This is What’s New  OMG! Ubuntu!

The Most Exciting Kernel Optimizations, New Hardware Support & Other Linux 6.13 Features  Phoronix

With Linus Torvalds expected to release Linux 6.13 stable this coming Sunday, 19 January, here's a reminder about the most exciting features, performance optimizations, and new hardware support arriving for this first major kernel release of 2025...

Best SSH Client for Linux: 5 Tools for Faster Connections  Net Newsledger

Linux Mint 22.1 Released, Here’s Everything New  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Mint 22.1 'Xia' is out now with improved Wayland support  GamingOnLinux

Getting Started with Zephyr on Linux #AdafruitPlayground #Zephyr #Linux  Adafruit Blog

Intel Arc B570 Graphics Performance On Linux Review  Phoronix

Last month when Intel formally introduced Battlemage graphics their initial products in the B-Series were the B570 and B580 graphics cards. The B580 went on sale in December and we've been busy testing the B580 on Linux since while today the embargo expires on the Arc B570 with those graphics cards going on sale this morning. Here is a first look at the Intel Arc B570 graphics and compute performance under Linux with their latest open-source drivers.

An exciting change was just merged into Mesa 25.0 that has been about two years in the making... AMDGPU native context support for VirtIO to allow for using native OpenGL and Vulkan graphics drivers within guest virtual machines for better performance...

Linux Mint 22.1 is primed and ready for release - and I'm excited  ZDNet

Game save data backup tool Ludusavi v0.28 brings  GamingOnLinux

Debian 12.9 arrives, quickly followed by MX Linux 23.5  The Register

Tuxedo OS 20250115 launches with KDE Plasma 6.2.5, Vim 9.1, and more  Notebookcheck.net

Pumakit: A Sophisticated Linux Rootkit Targeting Critical Infrastructure  SOCRadar

Back in November it was decided that the Fedora KDE Desktop Spin would be promoted to the same tier as the GNOME-based Fedora Workstation. Fedora KDE as an "Edition" status for Fedora 42 will now be on the same level as Fedora Workstation Edition. More details on those Fedora KDE Edition plans have now come to light...

Fedora KDE Plasma Edition Aims To Appeal To Multimedia Enthusiasts & Content Creators  Phoronix

In anticipation of the Linux 6.14 merge window opening next week if Linux 6.13 releases as expected this coming Sunday, Google engineer Kees Cook has already sent out pull requests to Linus Torvalds of new feature code he's been aligning for the v6.14 cycle. One of the interesting pulls is the introduction of the AT_EXECVE_CHECK flag to the execveat call...

Linux Will Power Nvidia Project DIGITS, the AI Supercomputer on Your Desk  It's FOSS News

A set of Linux kernel patches posted by AMD engineers last week are working on enhancing the CXL address translation support between the HPA decoder and system physical memory addresses. These patches get that CXL address translation support working for the recently launched AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" Zen 5 server processors...