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Newly Submitted Linux Patches To Make AMDGPU The Default Driver For GCN 1.1 GPUs  Wccftech

Firefox 145 Is Now Available for Download, Drops 32-Bit Support on Linux  9to5Linux

Linux Mint to get an upgraded System Information tool and a spruced up system menu  GamingOnLinux

The popular Easy Effects app swaps from GTK over to Qt, QML and Kirigami with a big new release  GamingOnLinux

It's time to de-duplicate the desktops  theregister.com

Whenever seeing Linux kernel mailing list patches from Google engineer Eric Biggers it tends to be about performance optimizations to the Linux kernel's cryptography subsystem. That was once again the case on Sunday with the newest patch series providing some nice gains...

POLYVAL Work Bringing More Performance Gains To Linux Crypto Subsystem  Phoronix

Tecent engineers have been working on addressing long-standing inefficiencies within the Linux kernel scheduler code around over-subscribed virtualized environments...

Tencent Proposes Semantics-Aware vCPU Scheduling For Over-Subscribed KVM Linux VMs  Phoronix

Fish 4.2 is now available as the latest version of this popular shell on Linux, macOS, and other systems...

While LoongArch 64-bit is already part of the GCC compiler for the past several years, LoongArch 32-bit is now being proposed for the GNU Compiler Collection...

Hackers bypass Windows defences by installing Linux  Fudzilla.com

Hackers bypass Windows defences by installing Linux  Fudzilla.com

Must-Have Kali Linux Tools for Cybersecurity Specialists in 2026  vocal.media

My favorite Linux desktop environment is finally getting a feature requested 20 years ago  XDA

Command Your Calendar: Inside the Minimalist Linux Productivity Tool Calcurse  It's FOSS

Patches Proposed For Radeon GCN 1.1 GPUs To Use AMDGPU Linux Driver By Default  Phoronix

For those still using an AMD GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands" GPU like the Radeon R9 290/390 series, HD 7790 / 8870, or other Radeon Rx 200 / Rx 300 series GPUs, there is an exciting early Christmas present this year. Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team sent out the patch series on Sunday for enabling the GCN 1.1 GPUs to use the newer AMDGPU driver on Linux by default in place of the existing "Radeon" driver. This can mean better performance, Vulkan driver support out-of-the-box, and other improvements compared to using that older Radeon driver...

Rust Coreutils continues moving fast on their goal "toward full GNU compatibility" with the GNU Coreutils. The uutils project announced Rust Coreutils 0.4 this evening with better compatibility, performance optimizations, and other improvements...

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 9th, 2025  9to5Linux