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Linux Kernel 6.16: Btrfs Boosts, Rust Integration, Intel TDX Security  WebProNews

After all of these years of Linux dominating the high performance computing (HPC) space and other industries, one might think (most) all the interesting performance nuggets have been uncovered and well thought out and robust fallbacks in place across all important code paths. As we showcase almost each cycle, interesting new performance bits to be uncovered within the Linux kernel. For Linux 6.17 thanks to a NVIDIA engineer is applying a better fallback for NUMA locality rather than simply picking a random CPU core...

Linux 6.17 Improves NUMA Locality For SMP Call Rather Than Deferring To Random CPU Core  Phoronix

Facebook's Meta already employs an all-star team of Linux kernel engineers and it doesn't appear that they are over in recruiting top-tier Linux kernel talent. One of Intel's senior Linux software engineers is now the latest high profile kernel developer onboard at Meta...

Longtime Linux Kernel Engineer With 14 Years At Intel Is Now At Meta  Phoronix

Proton 10.0-2 beta was released today by Valve and CodeWeavers for furthering this Wine-derived software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux with great success...

Proton 10.0-2 Beta Delivers More Enhancements For Linux Gaming  Phoronix

This Linux Laptop Has a Powerful AMD Ryzen Chip  How-To Geek

Proton 10.0-2 (beta) brings even more gaming improvements to Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

The Agntcy Framework For Agentic AI Moves To The Linux Foundation  Forbes

This handy Linux tool snitches on sneaky apps - here's why and how it's helpful  ZDNET

Nimble 'Gunra' Ransomware Evolves With Linux Variant  Dark Reading | Security

The staging area of the Linux kernel, where preliminary code initially appears to mature until being promoted out, continues seeing a lot of code churn. With Linux 6.17 the staging updates were submitted and now merged with one driver in particular standing out...

5 Linux distros for businesses looking to save money and protect their assets  ZDNET

Bcachefs Faces Exclusion from Linux Kernel 6.17 in Torvalds Dispute  WebProNews

5 Linux KDE Plasma Features that Completely Changed How I Use My PC  How-To Geek

Xtraceroute Ported To GTK4 + Vulkan For Demonstrating The Open-Source Potential For AI  Phoronix

Christian Schaller, a Fedora developer and Director of Software Engineering at Red Hat, recently began exploring the potential of AI usage more from the open-source/Linux perspective. He was left impressed from his ability to easily generate a Python application for internal Red Hat use to porting the venerable Xtraceroute program to GTK4 and Vulkan...

It had been two years since the last update to the AMDGPU X.Org DDX driver but now xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 is now available for those relying on this driver/hardware-specific driver for X.Org enabled Linux systems rather than the xf86-video-modesetting generic driver or a Wayland-based desktop...

Linaro Demos Linux on Snapdragon X Elite with 4K Video and AI  WebProNews