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While it took two and a half years for DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 to materialize from DragonFlyBSD 6.4, only one week passed since that recent v6.4.1 release to now see v6.4.2...

Linus Torvalds notes negative trend in Linux 6.15-rc6, here's what's new  Neowin

Linus Torvalds notes negative trend in Linux 6.15-rc6, here's what's new  Neowin

Linus Torvalds has released Linux 6.15-rc6 today with hopes of releasing Linux 6.15 stable in two weeks...

Linux 6.15-rc6 Released With AMD Performance Fix & Other Bugs Addressed  Phoronix

Linux 6.15 Fix Merged For Sizable Performance Regression On Newer AMD CPUs  Phoronix

At the end of April I reported on a significant performance regression affecting newer AMD CPUs and was bisected to a change in the AMD SRSO mitigation handling for Zen 4/5 processors with the Linux 6.15 kernel. The fix for that significant performance regression was merged today ahead of the imminent Linux 6.15-rc6 release...

Merged today to Linux Git ahead of the Linux 6.15-rc6 release is support for several more gaming controllers...

Linux 6.15 Adds Support For Several More Gaming Controllers  Phoronix

5 Things I Do on Linux to Make It More Secure  How-To Geek

Tiny Corp heralds world's first AMD GPU driven via USB3 — eGPUs tested on Apple Silicon, with Linux and Windows also supported  Tom's Hardware

A number of Phoronix readers have been inquiring in recent weeks around seeing updated Linux graphics/gaming benchmarks for the Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics cards. So for your viewing pleasure today is a look at the Arc Graphics B580 and B570 graphics cards on Ubuntu 25.04 for showing how the graphics performance have improved with the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver stack since launch.

Intel Arc Graphics B570 & B580 Gaming Performance On Linux For Mid 2025  Phoronix

Why I Prefer GNOME for My Linux Desktop  How-To Geek

Which Linux Distro Should Be Added to WSL Next?  How-To Geek

Flatpak 1.16.1 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Brings More Enhancements  9to5Linux

This week Google announced all of the accepted projects for this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC). There are 1,272 accepted students/projects this year for student developers working on various interesting open-source efforts over the summer...

The Linux Kernel Dropping Its Unused Built-In Software Echo Cancellation Code  Phoronix

Queued up for removal in the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle is dropping "echo", a software-based echo cancellation code within the kernel intended for telecommunications use. But it's old, unmaintained, and likely not actively used...

Intel software engineers released oneDNN 3.8 to end out the week with various new performance optimizations and more...