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Linux 6.19: 40% Speed Boost on Old AMD GPUs & Faster Ext4  OMG! Ubuntu

Linux Kernel 6.19 Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

Following Linus Torvalds releasing Linux 6.19 stable, Linus Torvalds is now out with his customary release announcement. Notably he officially confirmed that the next kernel version is Linux 7.0 as the successor to Linux 6.19...

The Linux Credential Crisis: Why Your Desktop Still Can't Match Windows and macOS for Secure Authentication  WebProNews

As anticipated due to the extra week for the cycle given end of year holidays, Linus Torvalds today released the Linux 6.19 stable kernel as the first major release of 2026. There is a lot in store with this early 2026 kernel release...

Linux 6.19 Released With Better Support For Older AMD GPUs, DRM Color Pipeline API  Phoronix

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 6, 2026 (Feb 2 – 8)  Linuxiac

6 tips for using Linux without touching the command line  How-To Geek

After discovering this morning that Intel archived/discontinued its On Demand "SDSi" GitHub project around that controversial feature, it was a slippery slope in noticing Intel recently archived around two dozen other open-source projects they previously maintained...

Valve hits pause  overkill.wtf

Handmade by human hands using machines  Digg

4 Emacs packages that replaced everyday apps for me  How-To Geek

I keep "tiny" Linux distros on my keychain: Here are 5 reasons you should too  How-To Geek

D7VK is a fork of the DXVK project that is an important part of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 support atop Vulkan. With D7VK the original goal was a Direct3D 7 implementation on Vulkan. D7VK 1.1 brought experimental Direct3D 6 support and now with today's release of D7VK 1.3 is support for Direct3D 5...

D7VK 1.3 Brings Support For Direct3D 5 On Vulkan  Phoronix

AppImages are just .exe files for Linux, and nobody explains it that simply  XDA

With Linux 6.19 due for release later today it then opens up the next kernel merge window. It could be Linux 6.20 but more than likely the next kernel version will be called Linux 7.0 with Linus Torvalds' past tradition of bumping the major version number after X.19. Whatever it ends up being called, here is a look at various "-next" changes that have been queuing up ahead of the merge window...

From Fallout to Retro: How to give your Linux bootloader a total makeover  How-To Geek

Intel Appears To Have Quietly Sunset "On Demand" Software Defined Silicon  Phoronix

Back in 2021 on Phoronix was first to report on Intel preparing Linux patches for a "Software Defined Silicon" feature for activating extra licensed hardware features. That Software Defined Silicon support continued moving forward and was then announced as Intel On Demand with a focus on users being able to pay to activate additional accelerators found on select SKUs but not enabled by default...