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Cryptography Performance Improvements Coming For Linux 6.18  Phoronix

Introduced two years ago was the Intel/Codeplay oneAPI Construction Kit for helping to bring SYCL support to new hardware. As part of that the oneAPI Construction Kit was brought to RISC-V and other platforms. Out this week is now oneAPI Construction Kit 5.0 and sadly it drops Vulkan API support...

Independent Distro KaOS Linux 2025.09 Arrives with Linux 6.16, KDE Gear 25.08  9to5Linux

Following the release earlier this year of the Fish 4.0 shell that was ported from C++ to Rust, Fish 4.1 was released this weekend as the next major feature release...

The Linux kernel's audit subsystem/framework for greater insight into system activity for security purposes will now be able to properly cope with multiple Linux Security Modules (LSMs)...

3 Terminal Tricks You'll Wish You Knew Earlier  How-To Geek

All of the ARM64 feature changes intended for the Linux 6.18 merge window have been submitted in advance. There are a few new features worth calling out for 64-bit ARM Linux users...

FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 4 is out today as the newest weekly test release in working toward the FreeBSD 15 stable release in early December...

Linux 6.18 Kernel Patches Fix Systemd-VFS Lockups for Enterprise Stability  WebProNews

When it comes to open-source games, Unvanquished remains one of the most promising and interesting open-source FPS games from a technical perspective. With its next release, Unvanquished has been ported to the SDL3 library and is working well natively on Wayland...

Unvanquished Game Ported To SDL3, Working Natively On Wayland  Phoronix

5 Linux Distros That Play Nice With Brand-New Hardware  How-To Geek

I set up a remote Linux VM on Proxmox I can use from Windows, and it's almost as good as native  XDA

This tool helped me create a USB image with everything I need for the perfect Linux setup  XDA

5 Ways to Download Files via the Linux Terminal (That Aren't curl or wget)  How-To Geek

Why This Distro Is More Popular Than Ubuntu and Linux Mint Right Now  How-To Geek

Thirteen years after the AMD GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" GPUs initially launched as the Radeon HD 7000 series, recently there has been an effort to improve the support for both GCN 1.0 and the GCN 1.1 graphics processors with their open-source Linux driver stack. This recent effort has been led by one of the developers on Valve's Linux graphics team...

Linux Driver Developer At Valve Preps More Patches For Improving AMD GCN 1.0 GPUs  Phoronix

7 Ways to Use SSH to Turbocharge Remote Server Connections  How-To Geek

Linux 6.18 Will Fix Lockups When Systemd Units Read Lots Of Files  Phoronix