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OpenZFS Encryption Concerns: Data Corruption Risks Highlighted by Linux Expert Michael Larabel  BNN Breaking

KDE neon 6 Distro Now Available with the KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment  9to5Linux

KDE Neon Distro Now Ships with the KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment  9to5Linux

Being worked on and off for several years has been FUSE read/write passthrough support for improving the performance of File-Systems in User-Space by avoiding the daemon overhead on a per-file basis where read/write operations are forwarded by the kernel directly to the lower file-system rather than the FUSE daemon. FUSE passthrough mode has shown to be a big performance win and it looks like it could be finally mainlined come Linux 6.9...

FUSE Passthrough Support May Land For Linux 6.9 To Help Boost I/O Performance  Phoronix

TNS Linux SB00.3 Understand the Linux Command Line  The New Stack

TNS Linux SB00.2: Companion Lab for Linux Skill Blocks Repository  The New Stack

10 Linux Distros for Developers and Coders in 2024  Analytics Insight

TNS Linux SB00.1: Intro to the Linux Skill Blocks Repository  The New Stack

Can the NES run Linux? The answer, surprisingly, is yes  Softonic EN

Remote Play broken on Steam Deck with the February stable update  GamingOnLinux

Intel Xe Kernel GPU Driver Starts Landing SR-IOV Bits & Other Features For Linux 6.9  Phoronix

Upstreamed for Linux 6.8 is the experimental Xe kernel graphics driver that is a modern replacement to the "i915" Direct Rendering Manager driver. The Xe kernel driver targets Tigerlake graphics and newer while it won't be until Lunar Lake / Xe2 when it aims to become the default driver for Intel iGPU/dGPU graphics. For the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel merge window are more feature changes and fixes to this new open-source Intel kernel graphics driver...

On-disk format change beckons for early adopters of Bcachefs  The Register

On-disk format change beckons for brave early adopters of Bcachefs  The Register

The open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver within the Mesa codebase has merged support for the important VK_EXT_shader_object and VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library extensions. Additionally, as part of supporting these new extensions, this introduces the code for a common Vulkan runtime to Mesa...

The Servo web engine project has put out a new blog post that outlines all of their accomplishments made during the course of February...

Today's the day! KDE MegaRelease 6 is out for shipping Plasma 6.0, KDE Frameworks 6.0, and KDE Gear 24.02 apps...

KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New  9to5Linux

Privacy-First Linux Distro Tails 6.0 Releases With Debian 12 Bookworm Base  It's FOSS News