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It's Now Been Three Months Since The Last AerynOS Release

Phoronix - Mon, 06/30/2025 - 18:46
Released three months ago was the first AerynOS ISO release for that Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty and from there plans were laid to provide "accelerated delivery of milestone ISOs." But now Q2 is ending without any further announcements from this interesting Linux distribution formerly known as SerpentOS...

Btrfs Preps Experimental Large Data Folios For Better Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 06/30/2025 - 18:23
It looks like Linux 6.17 could end up enabling experimental support for large data folios that could help with bringing some performance improvements under real-world workloads for this copy-on-write file-system...

Fedora 44 Will Not Pursue The Idea Of Ending 32-bit x86 Software Packages

Phoronix - Mon, 06/30/2025 - 18:12
A proposal raised last week for Fedora 44 was to drop i686 support with ending multi-lib and x86 32-bit packages support. But following a fair amount of opposition to the idea, this matter isn't going to be pursued for next spring's Fedora 44 release...

Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2 Launches For $4

Phoronix - Mon, 06/30/2025 - 18:02
The newest product in the Raspberry Pi family launching today is the Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2...

How to Install ‘atop’ to Monitor Real-Time System Performance

Tecmint - Mon, 06/30/2025 - 14:00
The post How to Install ‘atop’ to Monitor Real-Time System Performance first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

atop is a full-screen performance monitoring tool that provides detailed reports about all system processes, including those that have already

The post How to Install ‘atop’ to Monitor Real-Time System Performance first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux 6.16-rc4 Released With AMD Cleaner Shader For More GPUs, Bcachefs Changes

Phoronix - Mon, 06/30/2025 - 05:07
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.16-rc4 as we prepare to close out the first half of 2025 and hitting roughly one month until the Linux 6.16 stable release...

Wine-Based Hangover Project Drops QEMU In Favor Of FEX & Box64 For Emulation

Phoronix - Sun, 06/29/2025 - 22:33
Building off Friday's release of Wine 10.11 for running Windows games and applications on Linux is now Hangover 10.11 for this Wine-based software used for running Windows games/applications cross-architecture such as on AArch64/ARM64 systems...

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