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Andrew Morton this week sent in some additional memory management "MM" changes for the Linux 6.17 to complement last week's many MM patches from new optimizations to more DAMON features. Most notable with this secondary set of patches are khugepaged optimizations that especially help ARM64 Linux systems...

Linux 6.17 Optimizes khugepaged For ARM64 With Huge "16x" Impact For One Code Path  Phoronix

All of the Kbuild changes were merged today for the Linux 6.17 kernel. Most notable with the Kbuild changes is the gconfig graphical utility for configuring the Linux kernel configuration now being ported from GTK2 to GTK3...

GTK3 Version Of gconfig Merged For Linux 6.17  Phoronix

[Inside LBS Ⅰ] Dividing and Conquering Linux High-Capacity SSD Support with LBS  Samsung Semiconductor

NVIDIA driver 570.181 released for Linux as the latest recommended stable driver  GamingOnLinux

Open Source Summit India 2025: Linux Foundation India Marks First Year with New Partnerships  It's FOSS News

Fungus-inspired Linux hack gives Amiga a Doom-only brain  theregister.com

Released two weeks ago was systemd 258-rc1 with many changes throughout its massive codebase. Out today is a second release candidate of the forthcoming systemd 258...

The Rust project put out a status update concerning its 2025 project goals to summarize what has been accomplished during the first half of the year...

Rust Making Progress On Its 2025 Project Goals  Phoronix

The PCI-SIG announced today the PCI Express 8.0 specification due out in 2028 will double the data of the PCI Express 7.0 specification, taking it to 256 GT/s...

Microsoft’s AI Overreach Spurs Linux Surge to 6% Market Share  WebProNews

5 operating systems that can revive your ancient laptop  xda-developers.com

Portal: Revolution drops Native Linux support to focus on Proton  GamingOnLinux

Security flaws in key Nvidia enterprise tool could have let hackers run malware on Windows and Linux systems  TechRadar

I replaced Windows with Linux on a tablet, and I just can't recommend it  xda-developers.com

Debian 13 Showing 13% Performance Improvement Over Debian 12 On AMD EPYC Review  Phoronix

If all goes according to plan Debian 13.0 will be released this weekend. Already in its effectively final state aside from any last minute fixes, I've begun running Debian 13 testing builds on various systems in the lab to great success. With two years since Debian 12, the new software packages of Debian 13 help in delivering better performance especially on modern systems. Here is a look at Debian 12 versus Debian 13 performance on an AMD EPYC server across 130 benchmarks. Coincidentally, Debian 13 is coming in at 13% faster than Debian 12.

GNOME's new AI assistant can even run Linux commands for you - here's how  ZDNet