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Earlier this month was the release of the KDE Plasma 6.3 beta while today a second beta was issued...

If you're ready to break up with Windows, this is the Linux distro I suggest for new users  ZDNet

All of the power management feature updates for the in-development Linux 6.14 kernel were sent out earlier this week and subsequently merged. As we've been seeing with recent Linux kernel releases, AMD continues investing a lot into their AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for better power efficiency on Ryzen processors and since the prior kernel also now being used with the new 5th Gen AMD EPYC server processors too...

Linux 6.14 Power Management: "Dominated By AMD P-State Driver Changes"  Phoronix

GNOME 46.8 Release Speeds Up Thumbnail Loading in the Nautilus File Manager  9to5Linux

For those making use of the source-available Redis in-memory key-value database, the upcoming Redis 8.0 will offer better performance on today's high core count systems and servers...

With Debian 13 freeze dates announced and that Debian 13.0 "Trixie" release working its way toward release likely around August, it's then to be followed by beginning development on Debian 14 codenamed as "Forky". Yesterday when announcing the Debian Trixie freeze dates, the Debian 15 codename was also announced...

How to Install Software on Ubuntu: A Beginner's Guide to Snap and APT  How-To Geek

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Linux Benchmarks: Stay Tuned  Phoronix

Following the unboxing embargo earlier this week for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, today the review embargo lifts for the GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition...

Linux 'fascinates and terrifies' the dev of DEAD LETTER DEPT. but they're supporting it anyway  GamingOnLinux

The crypto subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.14 kernel. Notable this time are new x86_64-specific optimizations for the AES-GCM and AES-XTS algorithms. Benefiting the most from these new x86_64 optimizations are recent AMD processors...

Faster AES-GCM & AES-XTS Crypto Performance For AMD CPUs With Linux 6.14  Phoronix

WINE introduces version 10.0 of Windows compatibility tool  Techzine Europe

How to install GE-Proton on Steam Deck, SteamOS, Linux  GamingOnLinux

Newer laptops pre-loaded with Microsoft Windows have begun adding a "Copilot" key for launching Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant or other "chatbot" software. With the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel, that key will be mapped out correctly so that user-space software can determine the behavior for handling that key's action on the Linux desktop...

Linux 6.14 Adds Support For The Microsoft Copilot Key Found On New Laptops  Phoronix

The Tuned software from Red Hat is a daemon for Linux monitoring and adaptive performance tuning as an alternative to the likes of power-profiles-daemon. Tuned ships with various profiles and allows different features for tuning the Linux system performance for HPC compute, enterprise storage, balanced battery for laptops, and dozens of other scenarios. Red Hat this week debuted the first release candidate of the upcoming Tuned 2.25...

Red Hat Preparing Tuned 2.25 Daemon For Linux Monitoring & Adaptive Performance Tuning  Phoronix

Along with other VFS pull requests for Linux 6.14 to introduce STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN, adding a new mountinfo program, VirtualBox guest support for ARM64 VMs, and faster /proc/kcore reading, another VFS pull for this new kernel brings a minor performance optimization...