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📰 Fedora 44 will automatically make your Windows games run faster, no tweaks required Don't get me wrong; gaming on Linux has come a long way in the last few years. A decade ago, getting any game running on Linux that wasn't designed natively for it was a massive headache at best and impossible at worst. Now, thanks to the efforts from several sources, such as Valve with Proton, it seems like 2026 may be the year of gaming on Linux after all. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/fedora-44-will-automatically-make-your-windows-games-run-faster-no-tweaks-required/ #fedora#linux

📰 SystemRescue 13 Released With Linux Kernel 6.18 and GParted 1.8.1 SystemRescue 13, based on Arch, updates to Linux kernel 6.18, enhances HiDPI support, and upgrades core tools such as GParted and bcachefs. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/systemrescue-13-released-with-linux-kernel-6-18-and-gparted-1-8-1/ #linux#kernel#arch

📰 Linux 7.0-rc6 Bringing A Lot Of Audio Quirks / Fixes The Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due for release tomorrow has a lot of audio fixes/quirks to correct a wide variety of different hardware issues, mostly different problematic laptops for their speakers and/or microphone behavior under Linux... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc6-Many-Audio-Fixes #linux#kernel

📰 Fish 4.6 Shell Brings Support For Recent systemd Environment Variables Fish 4.6 released today as the newest version of this Rust-based interactive shell for Linux and other platforms... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fish-4.6-Released #systemd#linux

📰 DRBD Driver Working To Land ~15 Years Worth Of Changes Into The Linux Kernel Developers behind the Distributed Replicated Block Device "DRBD" for mirroring block devices between multiple host systems are working to resync the upstream Linux kernel DRBD support with the out-of-tree DRBD code they have been maintaining for the past ~15 years out-of-sync. It's a big undertaking but they have begun staging patches for review and testing to get this massive set of changes up to par for mainline... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRBD-15-Years-Code-Changes #linux#kernel

📰 Immutable Linux sounded bulletproof until I tried to use it I thought this was supposed to make things easier for the user? 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/immutable-linux-sounded-bulletproof-until-i-tried-to-use-it/ #linux

📰 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

📰 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

📰 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