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AMD RDNA4 With RADV Now Support New Performance Counters For Better Profiling  Phoronix

Merged back in December for Mesa 26.0 was RADV now supporting some new performance counters to help game developers and open-source driver developers. That new performance counter support aligned with the AMD GPUOpen Radeon GPU Profiler 2.6 release. At first those new performance counters were wired up for RDNA1 through RDNA3.5 GPUs while now the support has arrived for the latest RDNA4 GPUs...

While veteran open-source developer Keith Packard is known for his X.Org Server contributions over many years, another more recent open-source creation of his is Picolibc as a C library for embedded systems. As the latest achievement on that front, merged this weekend to the GCC 16 compiler codebase is support for using Picolibc...

Linux In TOP 500 Supercomputers Statistics 2026  commandlinux.com

GeForce NOW will soon get native Linux support  Instant Gaming News

GeForce NOW will soon get native Linux support  Instant Gaming News

Six Practical Ways to Use lspci When Troubleshooting Linux Hardware  gHacks Technology News

NVIDIA's GeForce NOW Will Allegedly Get Native Linux Support  80 Level

New GeForce NOW native Linux support could lure Windows 10 refugees  Neowin

Here Is Why Gamers Are Switching To Linux Instead Of Windows In 2026  GameFragger.com

Following the holidays, Linux 6.19-rc4 was released today in working toward the Linux 6.19 stable kernel release in early February...

Linux 6.19-rc4 Released Following A Quiet Holiday Week, 6.19-rc8 Already Planned  Phoronix

Manjaro Linux 26.0 ‘Anh-Linh’ Released: Wayland Default, Drops X11  WebProNews

What to Do When Your Linux Hard Disk Is Running Out of Space  Make Tech Easier

Manjaro 26.0 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, Xfce 4.20, KDE Plasma 6.5, and GNOME 49  9to5Linux

Linux Kernel 2026: Rust Integration and Security Advances  WebProNews

Two Linux Distributions I’m Watching Closely in 2026  Linuxiac

6 practical uses for the lspci command on Linux  Yahoo! Tech

GNU ddrescue as the free software data recovery tool from files or block devices is out today with a big feature release. The new GNU ddrescue 1.30 is improved by "orders of magnitude" for the automatic recovery from drives with a dead head...

Package updates for the Arch Linux powered Manjaro Linux distribution have been pushed out for Manjaro 26.0 "Anh-Linh" while updated ISOs are expected to soon become available. The Manjaro 26.0 milestone brings KDE Plasma 6.5 and GNOME 49 but with both of those you may lose X11 session support so they are recommending their Xfce Edition for wanting wanting to continue using an X.Org desktop session...