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Running Linux 6.15 vs. 6.14 Performance With The AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360  Phoronix

So far my testing this week of the Linux 6.15 kernel in its early, post-RC1 state has been going well. No major upsets, yet to uncover any significant performance regressions, and overall has been going smoothly with the many new features/changes in Linux 6.15...

10 Things You Should Do Right After Installing Fedora Linux  How-To Geek

10 Things You Should Do Right After Installing Fedora Linux  How-To Geek

The latest Marvel Rivals update is causing problems on Linux - here's a quick workaround  GamingOnLinux

Intel Preps VRR Refactoring For Linux 6.16, More Xe3 Panther Lake Display Enablement  Phoronix

Intel graphics driver engineers today sent out their first batch of feature updates to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of the next Linux 6.16 kernel cycle...

ParticleOS: Systemd's Very Own Linux Distro in Making  It's FOSS News

The most important experimental distro you've never heard of gets new project lead  theregister.com

Ubuntu 25.04 vs. Fedora Workstation 42 Performance On AMD Strix Point  Phoronix

With both Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 releasing this month you may be curious how these two Linux distributions are competing for performance. Well, it's a very tight race for common Intel/AMD x86_64 hardware. In this article are some benchmarks looking at clean installs of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42 on AMD Strix Point.

For those relying on OpenVPN for your virtual private networking (VPN) needs, one of the most exciting innovations in recent times besides transitioning to the WireGuard alternative is the OpenVPN DCO kernel driver. This "data channel offload" driver has the potential to provide significant performance advantages over the current OpenVPN performance...

OpenVPN DCO Driver For The Linux Kernel Revised A 25th Time To Boost VPN Performance  Phoronix

This Joke Linux Tool Will Make You Seem More Productive  How-To Geek

Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, April 11th edition for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Comedy narrative-driven isometric adventure Paradigm Island in need of Linux testers  GamingOnLinux

With being just one week past the Linux 6.15 merge window, a lot of fixes have been flowing into the mainline tree as is usual for the early stages of the kernel cycle. Merged overnight were a number of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes that include some notable alterations for the Intel and AMD Radeon kernel graphics drivers...

Linux 6.15 Fixes Intel Graphics Flickering Issue, Adds AMDGPU DMEM Cgroups Support  Phoronix

The Haiku OS open-source operating system inspired by BeOS has issued their newest monthly development report...

Earlier this week IBM announced the z17 mainframes powered by Tellum I processors. But months prior we've seen IBM patches for an "arch15" target for SystemZ within the open-source compilers that we expected was z17. IBM has now confirmed such and has begun updating the open-source compilers to acknowledge this z17 compiler support...