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Linux Mint 22.1 Is Now Available in Beta  How-To Geek

While Fedora Workstation has defaulted to using the Btrfs file-system for the past four years, only this past summer was the idea raised of creating a Fedora special interest group (SIG) around Btrfs to help advance efforts around this CoW file-system for Fedora Linux integration. This week marks the Fedora Btrfs SIG officially being established...

Btrfs SIG Established For Advancing Btrfs Interests On Fedora  Phoronix

Prime Gaming - December 12th edition round-up for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Building off last month's release of the LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha release for this free software office suite, out today is the first beta release of the upcoming LibreOffice 25.2...

How to Run Any Program from Any Linux Distro with Distrobox  Make Tech Easier

A new "Fedora COSMIC" spin of Fedora Linux has been proposed that would feature the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment currently being developed by Linux PC vendor System76...

Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Proposed For Fedora 42  Phoronix

Linux Mint 22.1 Beta is Now Available to Download  OMG! Ubuntu!

Linux Mint 22.1 Xia beta debuts with new features and refinements  BetaNews

Red Hat expands AI model support in new release of Linux AI platform  SiliconANGLE News

Last week Intel announced the Arc B-Series Battlemage graphics cards as their first Xe2 discrete GPUs. Ahead of the Arc B580 graphics card hitting Internet retailers tomorrow, today the review embargo lifts on the Intel Arc B580. Here is what to expect from the Linux driver support at launch for the Intel Battlemage graphics cards and how the Arc B580 is performing for Linux gaming/graphics workloads.

Intel Arc B580 Graphics Open-Source Driver Linux Gaming Performance Review  Phoronix

Intel Arc B580 Delivers Promising Linux GPU Compute Potential For Battlemage Review  Phoronix

Red Hat Delivers Next Wave of Gen AI Innovation with New Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI Capabilities  Business Wire

Now that the initial Intel Arc B580 graphics card gaming review on Linux is out, for productivity-minded users you may be more curious about the GPU compute potential... Here are some initial OpenCL and Level Zero results for the Intel Arc B580 graphics card compared to the Intel Arc A-Series and the AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce competition under Linux.

Linux Developers Consider Ending 32-bit KVM Host Virtualization Support`  Phoronix

Earlier this month as part of patches for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernel code for x86_64 systems, there was a patch to drop support for 32-bit x86 KVM host support. That patch has now been split off into its own patch series with also now raising the prospects of ending 32-bit KVM host support across all CPU architectures rather than being just an x86-only change...

Intel Begins Readying Graphics Driver Changes For The Linux 6.14 Kernel  Phoronix

While the Linux 6.13 merge window only recently ended and that kernel won't be out until around the end of January followed by the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window, Intel software engineers on Wednesday sent out their first two pull requests to DRM-Next of new kernel graphics driver features they are readying for this next version of the Linux kernel...