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Much Faster Suspend & Resume For Some Systems With Linux 6.14  Phoronix

Alongside the power management and thermal driver updates this week for the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel cycle were also the ACPI updates. The ACPI pull request was worth calling out on its own thanks to a change that will allow for faster suspend and resume cycles on some systems with this new kernel...

The Last of Us Part I added AMD FSR3.1 Frame Generation and Super Resolution  GamingOnLinux

All of the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window...

Intel THC, Wacom PCI Device & SteelSeries Arctis 9 Support Land In Linux 6.14  Phoronix

Optimize Battery Life on an Ubuntu Laptop With These 6 Power Saving Tweaks  How-To Geek

The SUSE/openSUSE Agama Installer is a modern web UI driven installer for the SUSE/openSUSE Linux distributions. It's modern, sports a cleaner UI and underlying architecture, and supports more features. The Agama 11 installer update was released this week in preparing for the upcoming SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 beta with this new installer as well as new openSUSE Leap 16 builds...

SUSE's New "Agama 11" Installer Preps For SLES 16 Beta / openSUSE Leap 16  Phoronix

The EFI updates have been merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel. The EFI updates this cycle aren't the most exciting but the kernel has finally bid farewell to the long obsolete UGA graphics protocol support...

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