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7 unusual Linux distros built for one purpose (and why you should try them)  XDA

While Intel FRED was merged back in Linux 6.9 in advance of Intel processors shipping with this Flexible Return Event Delivery functionality, there ended up being a late, incompatible change to the specification as a result of security research into it. For Linux 6.18 those FRED changes have been merged,..

Linus Torvalds Calls Strict Rust Formatting ‘Crazy’ in Linux Kernel  WebProNews

Arch Linux's AUR Wasted My Time Until I Did This  How-To Geek

Linux 6.18 Adds Google’s Sheaves for SLUB Allocator Speed Boost  WebProNews

Vicinae is basically Raycast for Linux, and it's (almost) everything I wanted  XDA

4 Linux kernel tweaks I made that actually improved performance  XDA

In addition to some Intel Linux kernel drivers being "orphaned" following the corporate restructuring at Intel between developers being laid off and others deciding to pursue opportunities elsewhere, these changes have also led to a number of Intel-related software packages within Debian being orphaned. In turn these Intel packages are also relied on by Ubuntu and other downstream Debian Linux distributions...

The F2FS file-system enhancements have been merged for the Linux 6.18 kernel and include some new performance optimizations...

F2FS Lands Performance Improvements In Linux 6.18  Phoronix

Cairo-Dock is back after a decade hiatus! From the early 2010's you may remember Cairo-Dock / GLX-Dock as a complementary dock for your Linux desktop. The last time writing about it was the Cairo-Dock 3.4 release in 2014 when it was working toward EGL/Wayland support. Since then it was rather inactive the past decade besides a small 3.5 update one year ago with a few fixes. But out this week is now Cairo-Dock 3.6 with the long-awaited port to Wayland, HiDPI display handling, and other improvements...

Linux 6.18 IOMMU Changes For Intel, AMD, Apple & RISC-V  Phoronix

The IOMMU driver changes were merged this week for Linux 6.18 with new material to benefit Intel, AMD, Apple, and RISC-V systems...

ISD is an independent interactive systemd management tool with a nice text user interface "TUI" for dealing with systemd units and other systemd functionality. Out today is isd 0.6 with many fixes and other refinements to this helper for administering systemd-backed Linux systems...

Intel NPU Linux Driver 1.24 released with Android support, hints at Android for PC  VideoCardz.com

For those making use of Server Message Block (SMB) protocol support on Linux, the SMB3 client code and KSMBD server code has landed some performance work and other fixes for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta 2 released this week and more fixes have landed for this desktop update due out later this month. Plus KDE developers have begun landing more feature work intended for Plasma 6.6...

The DeviceMapper changes have been merged for the Linux 6.18 kernel that includes the new DM-PCACHE target...

Linux App Release Roundup (September 2025)  OMG! Ubuntu

Just a friendly heads-up that some brief downtime of Phoronix.com will happen overnight due to replacing a drive in the web server's RAID array...