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Fedora 43 Landing Emergency Change To Increase /boot Due To NVIDIA GPU Firmware & Other Bloat  Phoronix

The NFS server (NFSD) improvements were merged today for the Linux 6.18 kernel. Most exciting is a new experimental feature that can help with scaling NFSD both for low-end/low-cost servers up through high-end larger server platforms...

Intel Layoffs Orphan Accelerator Packages in Debian and Ubuntu  WebProNews

Linux 6.18 Enhances HID with Haptic Touchpad and DualSense Support  WebProNews

Linux 6.18 Enhances HID with Haptic Touchpad and DualSense Support  WebProNews

Linux 6.18 FUSE Enhancements: 64-Bit Support and VirtIO-FS Optimizations  WebProNews

A patch series posted today for Nouveau, the open-source NVIDIA kernel driver within the mainline Linux tree, can help overcome some performance obstacles currently observed with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver...

This is my favorite Linux distro of all time - and I've tried them all  ZDNET

The PCI subsystem updates were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel. The PCI changes this cycle are mostly a random assortment of different changes to the wide assortment of PCIe drivers. Standing out is a workaround for dealing with a possible PCI Express performance issue for latest-generation Xeon 6 servers...

Linux 6.18 Works Around An Intel Xeon 6 PCIe Performance Issue  Phoronix

KarmaViz: music visualization software for Linux PCs #Python  Adafruit

I've tested the best Linux office suites and these are my top 5 - most are free  ZDNET

Redox OS Roadmap: Rust-Driven Speed Boosts to Challenge Linux  WebProNews

This new Linux desktop environment gives us what Microsoft never did with Windows  XDA

The Rust-written Redox operating system written from scratch is now enabling multi-threaded support by default for x86-based systems...

Can't Recall the Syntax? Try These WYSIWYG Markdown Editors on Linux  It's FOSS

Ubuntu 25.10 Delivering Some Nice Performance Gains For Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake"  Phoronix

Ubuntu 25.10 is looking quite nice in the performance department ahead of its official release later this week. On various systems tested thus far, Ubuntu 25.10 is delivering nice gains over Ubuntu 25.04 and compared to the current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The latest Ubuntu 25.10 benchmarking at Phoronix is looking at the Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake performance using the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition laptop.

Linux Preps IAA Accelerator Support For Intel's Wildcat Lake  Phoronix

While the Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) so far is just found on newer Xeon server processors, prior Linux patches acknowledge IAA being found on at least select Panther Lake SoCs. New patches ready for merging to the Linux 6.18 kernel are indicating IAA accelerator(s) will also be found on at least some of the lower-cost Wildcat Lake SoCs too...