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The latest Linux kernel enablement work for upcoming Intel Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors is perf subsystem support...

Linux 6.11 To Add Perf Support For Intel Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake  Phoronix

7 Things You Didn't Know Run on Linux  How-To Geek

This Week in GNOME is out with their newest issue to detail changes made by various GNOME components over the first few days of July...

It's been a busy start to July with KDE developers tackling more features for Plasma 6.2 while continuing to deliver fixes to the modern KDE Plasma desktop stack...

Who needs hard drive? Student runs Linux from Google Drive  NewsBytes

Running One of My Favorite Windows Game on Linux: Here's How It Went  It's FOSS News

Running One of My Favorite Windows Game on Linux: Here's How It Went  It's FOSS News

Sick of Microsoft? How to Make the Switch From Windows to Linux  PCMag

Can You Play Zenless Zone Zero on Linux? - Answered  Insider Gaming

Proton Experimental gets fixes for Farlight 84, Shadow Warrior 2, video improvements for 32bit games  GamingOnLinux

Intel's IDXD driver is what enables the Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) under Linux as found since Sapphire Rapids as part of Intel's accelerator offerings on their Xeon processors. With patches posted today, the IDXD driver will help the hardware recover in case of errors to provide a more robust experience...

Intel IDXD Driver To Better Handle Accelerators In Event Of Hardware Errors  Phoronix

How to Install DuckStation for Playing PS1 Games on Linux  hackernoon.com

Back in Linux 6.9 the Mobileye EyeQ5 SoC support was upstreamed for that MIPS-based platform powering Mobileye's level-5 autonomous driving system. With the upcoming Linux 6.11 kernel, support for the newer Mobileye EyeQ6 is being upstreamed...

Linux 6.11 To Upstream Support For Mobileye EyeQ 6H SoC  Phoronix

One of several nice Linux performance optimizations recently by Eric Biggers of Google has been speeding up DM-Verity via multi-buffer hashing. DM-Verity is used for transparent integrity checking of block devices and this multi-buffer hashing code looks like it will land with the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle...

Linux 6.11 Likely To Land DM-Verity Multi-Buffer Hashing For Big Speed Boost  Phoronix

You can apparently run an entire OS in Google Drive, but you definitely shouldn't  XDA Developers

As part of the memory management changes expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle is allowing more fine-tuned control over the swappiness setting used to determine how aggressively pages are swapped out of physical system memory and into the on-disk swap space...