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Mesa 25.2.2 Released: Bug Fixes Enhance AMD, Intel, NVIDIA Linux Drivers  WebProNews

Niri 25.08: Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds X11 Support and Accessibility  WebProNews

Spiceworks Community Digest: Better living through Linux  Spiceworks

openSUSE Leap 16 Doubles Support to 24 Months for Long-Term Stability  WebProNews

GCC's --param lto-partitions= compiler flag is used for controlling the number of partitions used during Link Time Optimization (LTO). It had defaulted to 128 for a number of years but given today's rising core counts especially for servers and HEDT/workstation processors, that default partition count is being quadrupled...

Red Hat’s Hans de Goede Departs After 17 Years of Linux Hardware Innovations  WebProNews

In addition to the SR-IOV work for the Intel Xe driver that landed in Linux 6.17 with a focus on Battlemage, additional SR-IOV work is coming for the Linux 6.18 cycle. Plus a variety of other Intel Xe kernel graphics driver changes too...

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)...