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Archinstall 2.8.2 To Speed Up Arch Linux Installations, Other Fixes  Phoronix

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap that highlights all of the interesting KDE desktop changes to have landed over the past week...

How to Access Linux Ext4 partitions in Windows using WSL (great for reading Raspberry Pi microSD cards)  Tom's Hardware

Archinstall 2.8.2 Arch Linux Installer Speeds Up Mirror Loading and Download  9to5Linux

Deepin 23-based ExTiX 24.8 live Linux launches with Synaptic Package Manager and Google Chrome in tow  Notebookcheck.net

Goodbye Windows 11, hello Linux: Discover how ExTiX Deepin 24.8 can free your computer from Microsoft  BetaNews

How to Create Your First Linux Bash Script  The New Stack

10 Linux keyboard shortcuts I depend on for maximum efficiency  ZDNet

AMD Linux engineers are preparing the kernel for Smart Data Cache Injection (SDCI) as a feature for AMD EPYC server processors. Smart Data Cache Injection is a nifty new feature that allows for direct insertion of data from I/O devices into the CPU's L2/L3 cache...

AMD Preparing Linux For Smart Data Cache Injection With "Upcoming" CPUs  Phoronix

Deepin 23 launches with atomic updates and support for more CPU architectures  Notebookcheck.net

Mesa 24.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Defaults to New Shader Cache  9to5Linux

shapez 2 is an absurdly great and accessible factory-building game out now  GamingOnLinux

With all of my AMD Ryzen 9900X and 9950X Linux benchmarking and Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X reviews as well, many have wondered if AMD Zen 5 is just really great on Linux, if Windows 11 is in particularly poor shape for these new AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors, if it's just the different/diverse benchmarks being run, or simply why are these new desktop CPUs running so well on Linux but less so with Windows?

Oliver Smith as the Interim Engineering Director for the Ubuntu desktop provided an update around recent efforts on Ubuntu 24.10...

I revisited the System76 Thelio, and it remains my all-time favorite desktop  ZDNet

Tails 6.6 Improves Persistent Storage and Adds Support for Newer Hardware  9to5Linux

Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.04 Linux Performance For The AMD Ryzen 9 9590X Review  Phoronix

The Cloud Hypervisor open-source project that serves as a Rust-written VMM focused on security and started by Intel but now backed by a multitude of vendors is out with its newest feature release. Cloud Hypervisor 41 is the new feature release worked on by engineers at Intel, Google, Microsoft, Rivos, Tencent, Ant Group, and others for this cloud and security minded virtual machine monitor...

Ahead of the now in-place Ubuntu 24.10 feature freeze, the Ubuntu GNOME X.Org session support was split off into its own separate binary Debian package from the main (default) Wayland session handling...