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Originally posted back in 2022 were Linux kernel patches for Qualcomm USB audio offloading for Qualcomm SoCs with an audio DSP that can take responsibility for issuing transfers to the USB host controller to free up system resources. After going through 38 rounds of code review the past 2+ years, it looks like Linux 6.16 will finally mainline this Qualcomm USB audio offloading support...

Qualcomm USB Audio Offloading Poised For Linux 6.16 After Going Through 38 Revisions  Phoronix

Systemd Developing Its Own Linux Distribution  MENAFN.com

Learning Linux Kernel Modules Using COM Binary Support  Hackaday

An interesting merge this weekend to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL) that is widely-used by cross-platform games and other applications for software/hardware abstractions is Wayland multi-seat support. This addition also comes with a developer working on Valve's Linux graphics efforts...

SDL Merges Wayland Multi-Seat Support  Phoronix

Love GNOME? These 5 Linux Distros Use It as Their Default Desktops  How-To Geek

Love GNOME? These 5 Linux Distros Use It as Their Default Desktops  How-To Geek

What Is Kubuntu Linux, and Should You Use It?  Yahoo

I've Used Kubuntu for 8 Months: What I've Learned About This Linux Distro  How-To Geek

5 Popular Linux Distributions and Who They're Meant For  How-To Geek

The Linux 6.16 kernel this summer will likely see the new SNP SVSM vTPM driver introduced for further enhancing the AMD EPYC confidential computing capabilities atop the mainline Linux kernel...

Linux 6.16 Could See AMD SEV-SNP SVSM vTPM Driver Merged For EPYC CPUs  Phoronix

Unsure How To Schedule With Cron on Linux? Try One of These GUIs  The New Stack

Best Linux distros for reviving an old PC  Tom's Hardware

7 Settings I Change After Installing Ubuntu  How-To Geek

A request for comments (RFC) patch series sent out this week for the Linux kernel is working on the notion of Virtual Swap Space support. The notion of Virtual Swap Space has been talked about for years and even going back to 2011 there's been efforts to redesign the kernel's swap cache along similar lines...

It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma space with the start of a big new feature landing for the Plasma 6.4 desktop...

In the past few days there has been an uptick in patches merged for the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite around "Qt Weld" that has been seeing an increasing number of patches over the past few months for enhancing the Qt toolkit integration...

One of many Linux kernel patch series that NVIDIA has been working on recently to upstream to the mainline Linux kernel are the adjustments needed for Linux running on their newest Smart Switch networking products for the data center...