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With Bcachefs now being "externally maintained" with the upstream kernel not accepting any further feature changes for now to this copy-on-write file-system, Bcachefs is pursuing a nice DKMS experience for distributing updated file-system kernel driver support out-of-tree. Convenient DKMS Debian packages of Bcachefs are now available on Ubuntu and Debian Linux platforms...

DKMS Packages For Bcachefs Are Now Available On Debian & Ubuntu  Phoronix

While KDE Plasma 6.5 beta released this week, KDE developers have been busy landing last-minute minor features and fixes into this next desktop release...

Proton Experimental adds fixes for various games not running on CPUs with high core counts  GamingOnLinux

BCacheFS Is Now A DKMS Module After Exile From The Linux Kernel  Hackaday

Zorin OS 18 Beta is Now Available  Thurrott.com

Linux Patch Optimizes Networking, Cuts Latency by 20% in Data Centers  WebProNews

3 Fedora KDE Plasma features that stop me going back to Windows  XDA

I tried cutting Windows out of my life with WinBoat, but I just can't recommend it  XDA

With Windows 10 support ending soon, Zorin OS 18 Beta arrives as a the ultimate alternative to Windows 11  BetaNews

4 reasons you should be using rootless Docker on Linux  xda-developers.com

Zorin OS 18 Beta Released with Refreshed Look, Advanced Window Tiling, and More  9to5Linux

Tor-based Tails Linux 7.0 Has Arrived: Here's What's New  How-To Geek

Ubuntu 25.10 beta comes with the Linux 6.17 kernel and more  Notebookcheck

I've been using Linux for a quarter of a century, so why do I keep coming back to Ubuntu?  Tom's Hardware

PureVPN on Linux Leaks IPv6 Traffic and Tampers with Firewalls  CyberInsider

Linux 6.17 File-System Benchmarks, Including OpenZFS & Bcachefs  Phoronix

Linux 6.17 is an interesting time to carry out fresh file-system benchmarks given that EXT4 has seen some scalability improvements while Bcachefs in the mainline kernel is now in a frozen state. Linux 6.17 is also what's powering Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 out-of-the-box to make such a comparison even more interesting. Today's article is looking at the out-of-the-box performance of EXT4, Btrfs, F2FS, XFS, Bcachefs and then OpenZFS too.

3 Fun and Cool Linux Apps to Install This Weekend (September 19 - 21)  How-To Geek

Intel Battlemage BMG-G31 Spotted In Linux Boot Log; Features 16 GB VRAM Capacity, Hinting At Arc B770  Wccftech