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The KDE Plasma developer sprint in Graz wrapped up just days ago but there's still been no shortage of new feature work landing into Plasma 6.4 this week. It was another exciting week of feature development as the soft feature freeze approaches for Plasma 6.4...

Automating Linux Swap Management with Ansible and Python | by Eren Cankut Uysal | May, 2025  Medium

This $30 app is the best purchase I've made for my Steam Deck  XDA

Port .NET Framework workloads to Linux with Amazon Q Developer, Part 4: MVC projects  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Wine 10.7 is out today as the newest bi-weekly release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

Linux Foundation Expands AI Tooling with 3 IBM-Backed Open Source Projects  HPCwire

Sent out a few minutes ago was the latest batch of AMDGPU graphics and AMDKFD compute kernel driver feature patches for DRM-Next in getting ready for the Linux 6.16 merge window opening in a few weeks. This pull request contains a big new feature: the initial albeit currently experimental support for AMDGPU user mode queues...

Initial AMDGPU User Mode Queues Support Prepped For Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Continued Work On Attack Vector Controls Ahead Of Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Going back to last year an AMD engineer has been pursuing "Attack Vecotr Controls" to rethink CPU security mitigation handling. Attack Vector Controls aims to make it easier to manage CPU security mitigation settings by focusing on the class/scope of vulnerabilities rather than managing the mitigations at an individual level. It's looking like the initial attack vectors control code will be ready for mainlining in the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle but stopping short of the complete implementation...

Proton is so good these days, I wish I could make the switch to Linux  XDA

Someone tried, and mostly managed, to run Linux in an Excel spreadsheet  TechSpot

How to change your hostname or computer name on Ubuntu Linux  Techloy

openSUSE Releases Leap 16 Beta  WebProNews

Full Disk Encryption Performance With Ubuntu 25.04 + Framework Laptop 13 Strix Point  Phoronix

For anyone storing personal information on their laptops especially, I definitely recommend making use of Linux LUKS-based full disk encryption capabilities. I've been recommending going with the full disk encryption capabilities for nearly two decades to help protect personal data in case your laptop is lost or stolen. The performance implications of using full disk encryption have went down over time and in most real-world workloads you'll see minimal to any difference out of it. As it's been a while since running any reference benchmarks looking at no disk encryption to full disk encryption, here are some results on the newly-released Ubuntu 25.04 paired with the Framework Laptop 13 powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point".

The Debian developer community is pursuing a General Resolution for voting on their policy around AI models...

Here's the games to claim for Steam Deck / Linux from Prime Gaming for May 2nd  GamingOnLinux

THE FINALS broke again on Linux Desktop / Steam Deck, Valve updated Proton Hotfix to fix it  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.16 Will Begin Reporting The Cause Of Your AMD Zen System Being Reset/Rebooted  Phoronix