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Sway 1.10 released on Sunday as the newest version of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor for the Linux desktop...

Linux 6.12-rc5 Released With Intel LAM Disabled, ASUS Lunar Lake Laptop Performance Fix  Phoronix

Following a busy week of kernel drama stemming from the Russian sanctions impacting Linux maintainers, Linus Torvalds is out with the Linux 6.12-rc5 weekly test candidate...

Geckium Turns Modern Firefox into Vintage Google Chrome  OMG! Ubuntu!

How to Install OBS Studio on Linux  How-To Geek

Sent out in original patch form this past week and already iterated to a second version this Sunday, a new proposal is underway to introduce "hung_task_detect_count" as a convenient means of tracking the number of times hung tasks are detected since boot...

Using Linux Made Me a Better Windows User, Here’s How  How-To Geek

Install Alpine Linux in Virtual Box [Screenshot Tutorial]  It's FOSS

From Teletype to Terminal Window: The 3 Eras of Unix Terminals  How-To Geek

Linux 6.12-rc5 Disabling Intel's Linear Address Masking "LAM" Due To Security Concerns  Phoronix

Intel merged Linear Address Masking into the Linux kernel last year as a means of allowing user-space to store metadata within some bits of pointers without masking it out before use. LAM can be useful for virtual machines, sanitizers / profiling / memory tagging, and other uses. While the brand new Intel Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs support LAM, the Linux kernel is now disabling LAM out of security concerns...

For the past year Intel software engineers have been developing a PCIe cooling driver to reduce the PCIe link speed to cope with thermal issues. In the future with PCI Express 6.0 this driver may be further adapted to also reduce the PCIe link width when encountering thermal problems. This cooling driver is now ready for merging with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel...

The Linux NETFS code as a network file-system helper library is seeing patches to help enhance the read performance for solutions like CIFS as well as adding single blob object support...

Snapdragon 8 Elite Has Full Linux Support, Making It Easier To Run PC Games Through Emulation, GPU Side To Require Patches To Ensure Optimum Performance  Wccftech

Snapdragon 8 Elite Has Full Linux Support, Making It Easier To Run PC Games Through Emulation, GPU Side To Require Patches To Ensure Optimum Performance  Wccftech

In addition to Eric Biggers of Google being busy working on various crypto and hashing performance optimizations, the longtime Linux developer has also been working on "dm-inlinecrypt" for better leveraging inline block device encryption...

DM-INLINECRYPT Being Worked On To Leverage Inline Block Device Encryption  Phoronix

5 Reasons to Start Using the Linux Command Line  How-To Geek

Vulkan 1.3.300 debuted on Friday with a handful of fixes and one new extension...

Steam Beta removes option to globally disable Steam Play plus Game Recording improvements  GamingOnLinux