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The uutils project has released Rust Coreutils 0.0.27 as the newest feature update to this Rust-written, drop-in replacement to the GNU Coreutils as the common set of utilities found on Linux systems and other platforms...

Rust Coreutils 0.0.27 Continues The Climb Of Better GNU Coreutils Interoperability  Phoronix

On Friday more AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver changes were submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle by way of DRM-Next. We're nearing the end of feature work to DRM-Next before the Linux 6.11 merge window begins in mid-July while this latest AMD pull request continues preparing for upcoming RDNA4 graphics hardware among other changes...

AMD Readies More Kernel Graphics Driver Code For Linux 6.11, Enables DCC For RDNA4  Phoronix

Budgie 10.9.2 Desktop Arrives with Bug Fixes as Wayland Porting Continues  9to5Linux

Budgie 10.9.2 Desktop Arrives with Bug Fixes as Wayland Porting Continues  9to5Linux

Red Hat engineer Leonardo Bras has laid out a proposal for QPWs, or "Queue PerCPU Work", as a better means of handling per-CPU operations within the Linux kernel especially for real-time (RT) workloads...

Linux Mint 22 Beta Coming Early July, as ISO Enters Testing  OMG! Ubuntu!

Flathub as the centralized repository for serving Flatpak sandboxed Linux applications crossed the threshold this weekend of serving more than two billion downloads...

Flathub Has Now Served More Than Two Billion Downloads For Flatpaks  Phoronix

Another round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel...

Bcachefs Making Tiny Steps Toward Full Self-Healing Capabilities  Phoronix

Merged on Friday to LLVM 19 Git is a generic MLIR to SPIR-V pass for lowering the Multi-Level Intermediate Representation down into SPIR-V as the intermediate representation consumed by OpenGL / OpenCL / Vulkan drivers...

GNOME developers continue to be very busy with a variety of initiatives thanks to the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) financing as well as other general development efforts as they work their way toward GNOME 47 in September...

Following this week's great KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop release, developers have been fixing some minor bugs and other issues that were raised by early users of this updated open-source Qt6-powered desktop...

Experts found a bug in the Linux version of RansomHub ransomware  Security Affairs

KDE Plasma 6.1 brings many enhancements to the popular Linux desktop  Notebookcheck.net

Intel Slips Battlemage Support And Power-Saving Features Into Linux 6.11  Hot Hardware

USENIX Security ’23 – Uncontained: Uncovering Container Confusion in the Linux Kernel  Security Boulevard

Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's open-source/Linux graphics driver team has submitted a merge request to "massively" improve the OpenGL glReadPixels performance within the common Mesa state tracker...