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Benchmarking The Different CachyOS Linux Kernel Flavors  Phoronix

Benchmarking The Different CachyOS Linux Kernel Flavors  Phoronix

CachyOS ships with a good Linux kernel configuration by default balancing the different features as well as performance. But they also ship a variety of other kernel builds for those preferring a more leading-edge kernel or the current LTS series, a hardened kernel configuration, and more. In this article are some fresh benchmarks of the Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution with some of its main kernel flavors.

KDE developers are sticking to their plans for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in dropping X11 support. Meanwhile it turns out 95% of current Plasma 6.6 users are running already on Wayland...

Ubuntu 26.04 is the OS for the AI agentic era, says Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth - here's why  ZDNET

Dell XPS 14 laptop is now available with Ubuntu Linux  Liliputing

Now that the Linux kernel has been removing Intel 486 CPU support and also proceeding to drop other vintage CPUs like the AMD K5 CPU support and AMD Elan, the Linux kernel is ready to make the TSC support unconditional for x86 processors...

The Linux Kernel Ready To Make TSC A Hard Requirement For x86 CPUs  Phoronix

WSL 3 at Build 2026: Near-Native GPU and NPU Passthrough Brings Local AI to Windows  Tech Times

Mesa's NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver now has mesh shader support as another significant step forward for this driver in being able to handle modern Linux gaming and other workloads...

Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merges Mesh Shader Support  Phoronix

I Tried This Open Source ChatGPT Alternative on Linux, But Went Back to Ollama  It's FOSS

Cheaper Dell XPS 14 2026 released internationally with Ubuntu Linux and up to 64 GB RAM  Notebookcheck

I replaced Docker Desktop with native Linux containers and never looked back  How-To Geek

Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code  Phoronix

Canonical today released Mir 2.27 as the latest version of this set of compositor libraries for easily building Wayland-based shells on Linux and fitting into the Ubuntu Linux paradigm...

ASUS ZenVision is a feature of some ASUS laptops like the Zenbook 14X OLED Space Edition where there is a 3.5-inch monochrome screen embedded into the top lid of the laptop. From this mini display embedded into the top lid of the laptop it's possible to display animated themes, show the current date/time, battery status, or customized messages and the like. The practicality is rather limited as primarily it's for showing off to people around you besides when your laptop lid is closed, but now with experimental code it's now possible to use ZenVision on Linux...

ASUS ZenVision Laptop Lid Screen Reverse Engineered & Now Able To Work On Linux  Phoronix

A few terminal commands combined replaced the Linux apps I was using for search, logs, and disk usage  MakeUseOf

Some of the latest feature work for the Rust and Wayland based COSMIC desktop environment is on creating their new "Frosted Glass" appearance. It's getting closer to release and giving off Windows Aero vibes for that design language from the Windows Vista days...