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Linux 6.18 Kbuild Brings An Optimization For gen_init_cpio On Btrfs Or XFS

Phoronix - Thu, 10/02/2025 - 21:17
The Kbuild changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel...

Second Beta Of KDE Plasma 6.5 Released For Testing

Phoronix - Thu, 10/02/2025 - 20:53
Following last month's release of the first KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta, a second beta milestone was released today ahead of the stable release coming later in October...

Intel Posts Linux Driver Patches For Nova Lake Audio Support

Phoronix - Thu, 10/02/2025 - 20:16
So far Intel has posted very few Linux kernel driver enablement patches around Nova Lake but it looks like that is about to change...

Raspberry Pi OS Updated Against Debian 13 Trixie

Phoronix - Thu, 10/02/2025 - 20:01
Following the recent Raspberry Pi 500+ launch, the latest Raspberry Pi news is the release of Raspberry Pi OS now re-based against Debian 13 "Trixie" along with some additional changes...

Signed Programs & Other BPF Changes Merged For Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Thu, 10/02/2025 - 14:00
The BPF changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel...

Steam On Linux Use Up 1% From Last September

Phoronix - Thu, 10/02/2025 - 08:10
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for September with a slight increase to the Linux gaming userbase...

TrueNAS 25.10-RC1 Brings Better Disk Import/Export, ZFS Rewrite Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 10/02/2025 - 07:09
TrueNAS 25.10-RC1 is out today as the newest test release of this OpenZFS+Linux-based operating system for network attached storage (NAS) hardware and other storage devices...

A Minor Optimization Comes For x86 Memory Management In Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Thu, 10/02/2025 - 06:36
Sent out today was the x86/mm pull request of the x86/x86_64 memory management changes destined for this next version of the Linux kernel. This pull has just one new patch but is worth mentioning...

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