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My favorite Linux distro just got even better with Linux Mint 22.2 'Zara' - what's new  ZDNET

Linux 6.17 With EXT4 Showing Some Nice Performance Improvements  Phoronix

With the Linux 6.17 kernel there are some block allocation scalability improvements for EXT4 on top of other file-system enhancements with this new kernel and other new features. Linux 6.17 performance has been looking good and when drilling down to the EXT4 file-system performance, it's looking extremely good. Here are some benchmarks of EXT4 on Linux 6.17 compared to the 6.15 and 6.16 stable kernels.

AMD engineers have submitted a HIP-RT update for Blender developers ahead of the big Blender 5.0 release to enhance the RDNA4 ray-tracing performance...

HIP-RT Update For Blender 5.0 To Deliver Improved Ray-Tracing On RDNA4 GPUs  Phoronix

Linux Lite relief: 7.6 keeps it simple, shiny, and mostly slim  theregister.com

Get some fabulous indie games in the Indie Likes & Lites Humble Bundle  GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA engineer Ankit Agrawal today posted a request for comments (RFC) patch series working on Linux virtualization support for Extended GPU Memory (EGM)...

NVIDIA Posts Initial Linux Patches For Extended GPU Memory "EGM" Virtualization  Phoronix

Linux Mint 22.2 Zara arrives as a long term support release backed until 2029  BetaNews

Following sudo-rs becoming the default sudo implementation in Ubuntu 25.10 as of a few days ago, Canonical is also proceeding with its transition of using the Rust version of Coreutils for this next Ubuntu Linux release...

Ubuntu 25.10 Proceeding With Its Rust Coreutils Transition  Phoronix

With Windows 10’s end approaching, experts forecast gradual move to Windows 11 until 2026  Windows Central

How to Install and Uninstall VLC Player on Linux  Techloy

Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" is officially out now  GamingOnLinux

Miracle-WM is the Wayland compositor built atop Canonical's Mir project with a focus on tiling and inspired by Sway/i3. Miracle-WM 0.7 is now available for advancing this Mir-powered Wayland experience with additional functionality now in place...

A change proposal filed for next year's Fedora 44 release wants to aim for a nice experience when running Wine or the Proton variants supporting the Linux kernel's NTSYNC driver for better emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives...

Fedora 44 Change Proposal Aims To Ensure A Nice Wine/Proton + NTSYNC Experience  Phoronix

EVERYBODY'S GOLF HOT SHOTS rated Steam Deck Playable with the anti-cheat enabled for Linux  GamingOnLinux

A new feature Microsoft has been working on for its Azure Linux operating system is OS Guard as a container-host platform that enforces immutability, code integrity, mandatory access control, and other features. Microsoft quietly revealed more about OS Guard last month and yesterday's release of Azure Linux 3.0.20250822 builds out more of the OS Guard functionality...