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Why This Distro Is More Popular Than Ubuntu and Linux Mint Right Now  How-To Geek

Thirteen years after the AMD GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" GPUs initially launched as the Radeon HD 7000 series, recently there has been an effort to improve the support for both GCN 1.0 and the GCN 1.1 graphics processors with their open-source Linux driver stack. This recent effort has been led by one of the developers on Valve's Linux graphics team...

Linux Driver Developer At Valve Preps More Patches For Improving AMD GCN 1.0 GPUs  Phoronix

7 Ways to Use SSH to Turbocharge Remote Server Connections  How-To Geek

Linux 6.18 Will Fix Lockups When Systemd Units Read Lots Of Files  Phoronix

Linux engineer at Microsoft Christian Brauner sent out his set of 12 pull requests touching the VFS portion of the Linux kernel. These changes for the Linux 6.18 kernel include one pull request that touches the writeback code to address a situation of lockups being reported by users when systemd units read lots of files...

Among the early pull requests submitted already to Linus Torvalds in advance of the Linux 6.18 merge window opening soon is the Btrfs file-system updates. Btrfs for Linux 6.18 has a few items worth calling out but no major features this cycle...

The sched_ext scheduler framework that allows creating kernel thread schedulers via BPF programs is ready with some updates for the Linux 6.18 kernel...

Following last week's KDE Plasma 6.5 beta release, the focus has shifted to bug fixing ahead of the October release of Plasma 6.5.0. There have been some minor features to still squeeze in, a lot of bug fixing has commenced, and also some early feature work around Plasma 6.6...

Following last week's GNOME 49 release, This Week in GNOME is out with their latest weekly summary of all interesting GNOME developments. Notable now for this post-49.0 time is libadwaita adding an adaptive sidebar widget...

Linux Apps on Android Are One Step Closer to Reality  How-To Geek

5 tools that make my Mac feel more like Linux  XDA

Back in June it was announced by Canonical that for the Ubuntu 25.10 release they would be raising the RISC-V baseline to the RVA23 profile even with barely any available RISC-V platforms supporting that newer RISC-V profile. That change is still going ahead and leaves Ubuntu 25.10 on RISC-V currently only supporting the QEMU virtualized target...

Google Prepares Faster Linux Apps on Android with GPU Support  SammyGuru

Google Boosts Android Linux Terminal with GPU Rendering for Faster Apps  WebProNews

Amazon's Vega OS coming to Fire TVs this year - what it means for your devices  ZDNET

With Linux 6.17 expected for release this weekend, the Linux 6.18 merge window will in turn kick-off for its usual two week dance. Here is a look at some of the features on our radar that are expected to be merged for Linux 6.18, which is also likely to be the 2025 LTS kernel version...

Android will soon run Linux apps better, and that's great for Google's PC plans  Android Authority

System76's Cosmic Desktop Arrives in Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta  How-To Geek

Vulkan 1.4.328 is now available as the latest specification update to this high performance graphics and compute API from The Khronos Group...