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Ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle, which will likely end up being this year's Long Term Support (LTS) version, the AMD Secure AVIC driver appears ready for merging. The AMD Secure AVIC patches were queued this week into a TIP branch and this likely to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.18 merge window...

AMD Secure AVIC Primed For Linux 6.18 To Provide Better Security & Performance  Phoronix

The 3 tools every new Linux user needs for customizing their terminal  xda-developers.com

Blue Protocol: Star Resonance to be playable on Steam Deck but probably not Desktop Linux  GamingOnLinux

Niri 25.08 is out this week as the newest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Notable now is adding xwayland-satellite integration for offering legacy X11 app support...

This is my new favorite way to run Windows apps on my Linux PC - how it works  ZDNET

Why you don't need to run Ollama in WSL on Windows 11 — but you'll love it if you do  Windows Central

Veeam rolls out Linux-based backup software appliance  Blocks and Files

Veeam Software Appliance boosts data protection  Help Net Security

Twinkleby from Might & Delight to launch September 23 with Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

Pods Is a Handy Linux GUI for Managing Your Podman Containers  The New Stack

Linux Kernel’s Floppy Disk Driver Gets Rare Update for Legacy Support  WebProNews

Intel Arc Pro B50 Linux Performance Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Intel Arc Pro B50 Linux Performance Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Intel announced the Arc Pro B-Series back at Computex consisting of the Arc Pro B50 and Arc Pro B60 graphics cards. Marking availability today and the review embargo lift is for the Arc Pro B50 for workstations, which provides 16GB of RAM, 70 Watt total board power, and a $349 USD launch price for this workstation graphics card. Here are the preliminary Linux performance benchmarks and open-source driver support metrics for the Intel Arc Pro B50.

Mesa 25.2.2 is out today as another on-time, bi-weekly Mesa point release managed by Eric Engestrom...

One of the planned changes for Fedora 43 was setting an expectation that RPM package builds are reproducible. Much of Fedora's "reproducible builds" effort is already complete but this change has now been deferred to the Fedora 44 release next year...

Linux Scheduler Adapted For A Latency Win & Avoiding An RT Deadlock  Phoronix

A patch series for the Linux kernel scheduler code is queued up for expected introduction in Linux 6.18 to defer throttle when tasks exit to user-space. These changes to switch the scheduler to a task-based throttle model and task-based throttle time accounting can provide a latency win and also address a possible deadlock situation for real-time "RT" kernels...

It's not too often hearing PCMCIA these days as that defunct PC card standard for laptops from the 90's and early 00's. Back in 2023 Linux began dropping old PCMCIA drivers from the kernel while coming as a surprise today are some clean-ups for the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) subsystem code persisting within the Linux kernel...