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📰Hyprland 0.54.3 Wayland Compositor Released With Crash Fixes Hyprland 0.54.3 delivers fixes for crashes in compositor, layout handling, and XWayland, improving overall stability in this patch release. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/hyprland-0-54-3-wayland-compositor-released-with-crash-fixes/ #wayland

📰 Ubuntu Rust Strategy Expands Again With ntpd-rs Proposal Canonical continues to expand Rust adoption in Ubuntu by targeting time synchronization with ntpd-rs, aiming to improve security in core services. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-rust-strategy-expands-again-with-ntpd-rs-proposal/ #ubuntu

📰 Intel Xe Driver Improves Memory Pressure / Out-Of-Memory Behavior For vRAM With Linux 7.1 Following the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver pull request landing transparent hugepages for device pages as an SVM win, another round of Intel Xe driver updates were sent out this week ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window. This latest pull request lands a new user-space API for helping the Intel Xe driver better cope with situations of video memory pressure / out-of-memory behavior for vRAM... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-Purgeable-BO #linux#intel#kernel

📰 BPF-Based I/O Scheduler For Linux Demonstrated With sched_ext there is support for BPF-based CPU scheduling policies for the Linux kernel while now a new initiative is working on BPF-based I/O schedulers... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/BPF-IO-Scheduler-Linux #linux#kernel

📰 AMDGPU Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Debug Improvements, New Hardware IP Another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver improvements were sent out this week as feature development for DRM-Next ahead of Linux 7.1 begins to wind down... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-More-AMDGPU #linux#kernel

📰 Linux Patches Posted To Fix ~2x Performance Drop For CPU Workloads On NVIDIA Vera Rubin An important set of Linux scheduler patches were posted for review on Thursday for improving the SMT-aware asymmetric CPU capacity handling. These patches to improve the Linux kernel scheduler around CPU Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) is needed after NVIDIA engineers discovered up to a ~2x performance drop for CPU-intensive workloads on their upcoming Vera Rubin platform... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Vera-Rubin-SMT-Sched-Fix #linux#kernel

📰 Dovecot 2.4.3 Secure IMAP Server Improves UTF-8 Support for Mail Storage Dovecot 2.4.3 open-source secure IMAP server, improves UTF-8 storage handling and fixes critical security vulnerabilities. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/dovecot-2-4-3-secure-imap-server-improves-utf-8-support-for-mail-storage/ #opensource

📰 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Is Out Now with Linux Kernel 7.0 and GNOME 50 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS operating system is now available for public beta testing with the Linux 7.0 kernel, Mesa 26.0 graphics stack, and GNOME 50 desktop environment. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-26-04-lts-beta-is-out-now-with-linux-kernel-7-0-and-gnome-50 #gnome#ubuntu#linux#kernel

📰 KDE's KWin Compositor Lands First Step Toward Vulkan Support Merged today was the very first step toward implementing Vulkan support within KDE's KWin compositor as an alternative to OpenGL rendering... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Vulkan-First-Step #kde

📰 Stop using these 6 built-in Linux commands; I found something way better These alternatives have replaced several default commands for me. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/built-in-linux-commands-better-alternatives/ #linux

📰 CachyOS just dethroned Arch Linux on ProtonDB, and Linux gamers are finally noticing It was inevitable once you see everything CachyOS has. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/cachyos-is-the-new-king-of-protondb/ #linux#arch

📰 Open-Source Nouveau Performance With Linux 7.0 + NVK Mesa 26.1-dev vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver As a few months have passed since our prior round of testing the fully open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver plus Zink, here is a fresh round of benchmarks using Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.1-dev compared to the open-source stack shipped by Ubuntu 25.10 (Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2) for showing how far the open-source NVIDIA driver has progressed the past few months. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-70-nouveau #opensource#ubuntu#linux#kernel