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The Linux Foundation Announces General Availability of Valkey 8.1  HPCwire

Linux power management and ACPI subsystems maintainer Rafael Wysocki last week sent out the assortment of ACPI/PM material for the new Linux 6.15 kernel cycle. The AMD P-State driver continues to be heavy with its code churn and there have been various other optimizations and code clean-ups. The CPUIdle Menu governor also received some performance tuning worth mentioning...

Linux 6.15 Further Improves AMD P-State Driver, Intel Dev Tackles A ~50% SPEC Regression  Phoronix

How to use the groupadd command  Network World

Back in late February when Framework announced a slew of new hardware products they will be launching next year, they also teased the Framework Laptop 12 as a new, smaller laptop while continuing to be modular/upgradeable. They announced today that Framework Laptop 12 pre-orders will begin next week...

Paulo Fylippe Sell Shows How Easy It Is to Build a Custom Raspberry Pi OS with Buildroot  Hackster.io

Paulo Fylippe Sell Shows How Easy It Ss to Build a Custom Raspberry Pi OS with Buildroot  Hackster.io

Linux shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping  GamingOnLinux

Download freeCAD (free) for Windows, macOS and Linux  Gizmodo

New Outlaw Linux Malware Leveraging SSH Brute-Forcing & Corn Jobs to Maintain Persistence  CybersecurityNews

Last week I posted some initial GNOME 48 and KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop gaming benchmarks on Ubuntu 25.04 beta for looking at the performance of those two leading desktop options for this upcoming Ubuntu Linux release. Both GNOME and KDE under Wayland were outperforming KDE on X11 (and GNOME on X11 wasn't even working due to bugs). Some Phoronix readers questioned though whether the Wayland advantage on GNOME/KDE was due to those desktops losing focus on X11 support or if they are just too bloated. So for adding some additional context, here are some graphics/gaming benchmarks on the same system hardware/software when adding in the Xfce 4.20 and LXQt 2.1 X11 desktops.

GNOME & KDE Plasma Wayland Sessions Outperforming Xfce + LXQt On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming  Phoronix

This morning's Intel TDX update reminded me that I still hadn't gotten around to digging into the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes merged last week for the ongoing Linux 6.15 kernel merge window. Here is a look at the KVM changes this cycle that continue to be particularly heavy on Intel and AMD virtualization improvements...

Many KVM Updates Merged For Linux 6.15  Phoronix

Linux Foundation Networking shares new AI projects, milestone releases  Network World

Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) for providing hardware-backed isolation and confidential computing support for virtual machines (VMs) on modern Xeon processors is about to become more reliable and potentially faster for some workloads...

Intel TDX Is Becoming Potentially Faster, Avoiding "Slow & Buggy" Code Path On Linux  Phoronix

Adaptiva Expands OneSite Patch to Mac and Linux, Delivering Cross-Platform Patching at Scale  dailyrecordnews.com

Adaptiva Expands OneSite Patch to Mac and Linux, Delivering Cross-Platform Patching at Scale  PR Newswire

Adaptiva Expands OneSite Patch to Mac and Linux, Delivering Cross-Platform Patching at Scale  goSkagit