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Valve's new low-VRAM Linux fix nearly triples FPS in select games on AMD's RX 6500 XT  TweakTown

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes were recently merged for the Linux 7.1 merge window for further enhancing KVM as this important piece of the open-source virtualization stack...

Last week saw the "NTFS resurrection" as Linux Torvalds put it with the new/overhauled NTFS driver having been merged for Linux 7.1. Even still, the NTFS3 driver that was contributed a few years ago by Paragon Software remains in the mainline kernel and today were some fixes/improvements merged for that existing driver...

Linux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driver  theregister.com

Valve low-VRAM Linux fix tested on RX 6500 XT, gains reach 6.4% in some games  VideoCardz.com

Now you can run Steam games in Linux on some handhelds that ship with Android  Liliputing

While FEX-Emu has been garnering a lot of attention due to being sponsored by Valve and slated to be used by the Steam Frame for running Linux x86_64 binaries on AArch64, the Box64 project continues moving along with similar goals for x86_64 binaries on other CPU architectures...

Box64 0.4.2 Begins Working On POWER PPC64LE Backend, Support For SteamRT3 + Proton 11  Phoronix

Git developers continue working toward Git 3.0 while out today is Git 2.54 with a few interesting additions...

Ubuntu 26.04 will block your upgrade on Thursday if your containers still use cgroup v1  XDA

It's not only the uutil's Rust Coreutils project seeing performance improvements but some increased healthy competition now from GNU Coreutils. With today's release of GNU Coreutils 9.11 the wc command is up to multiple times faster and even cat can be up to 15 times faster...

Valve's new low VRAM optimization shines in select games in early 4GB GPU test  Notebookcheck

Mozilla today published their Firefox 150 release binaries as the latest milestone for this open-source web browser with growing AI ambitions...

Firefox 150 Available With GTK Emoji Picker, CSS Media Element Pseudo-Classes  Phoronix

Linux 7.1 update includes new in-kernel NTFS driver — delivers storage support upgrade for Linux users  Tom's Hardware

Firefox 150 brings Linux emoji picker, PDF page ordering + more  OMG! Ubuntu

Out today is the Intel Compute Runtime 26.14.37833.4 that now includes production support for the newly-launched Wildcat Lake cut-down Panther Lake SoCs that debuted last week as the Core Series 3...

Intel Compute Runtime Promotes Support For Wildcat Lake, "Early" Crescent Island  Phoronix

This RX 9060 XT-powered mini PC looks like an intriguing alternative to the Steam Machine  PC Gamer

Andrew Morton recently sent out his various "MM" related pull requests for the ongoing Linux 7.1 kernel. There are a number of memory management optimizations in this next kernel version, which is always nice to see but all the more so these days with the inflated RAM pricing and other computer component prices...