The Many Memory Management Improvements In Linux 6.18 The many memory management "MM" changes were recently merged into the Linux 6.18 kernel, consisting of a number of interesting patch series...

The Many Memory Management Improvements In Linux 6.18 - Phoronix

The many memory management 'MM' changes were recently merged into the Linux 6.18 kernel, consisting of a number of interesting patch series.

Qt 6.10 Released With PipeWire Audio Backend & Many Other Improvements Qt 6.10 is now available as the latest feature update to this open-source and cross-platform toolkit...

Qt 6.10 Released With PipeWire Audio Backend & Many Other Improvements - Phoronix

Qt 6.10 is now available as the latest feature update to this open-source and cross-platform toolkit.

Ubuntu 25.10 Delivering Some Nice Performance Gains For Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" Ubuntu 25.10 is looking quite nice in the performance department ahead of its official release later this week. On various systems tested thus far, Ubuntu 25.10 is delivering nice gains over Ubuntu 25.04 and compared to the current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The latest Ubuntu 25.10 benchmarking at Phoronix is looking at the Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake performance …

Ubuntu 25.10 Delivering Some Nice Performance Gains For Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" - Phoronix

Ubuntu 25.10 is looking quite nice in the performance department ahead of its official release later this week.

Many Networking Performance Improvements & New Hardware In Linux 6.18 The networking subsytem updates for Linux 6.18 have been merged. There is a lot of enticing performance optimizations in different areas of the networking stack for this new kernel. Plus new wired and wireless networking hardware support and other improvements to get excited about for this LTS kernel version...

Many Networking Performance Improvements & New Hardware In Linux 6.18 - Phoronix

The networking subsytem updates for Linux 6.18 have been merged

Linux 6.18 DRM Pull Include New Tyr & Rocket Drivers, More AMD & Intel GPU Enhancements The Direct Rendering Manager "DRM" pull request ended up leading to Linus Torvalds complaining over text and Rust code formatting but in the end he pulled all of these kernel graphics driver updates and also the associated "accel" accelerator subsystem drivers too...

Linux 6.18 DRM Pull Includes New Tyr & Rocket Drivers, More AMD & Intel GPU Enhancements - Phoronix

The Direct Rendering Manager 'DRM' pull request ended up leading to Linus Torvalds complaining over text and Rust code formatting but in ...

Improved Diagnostics For GCC 16 - Including Support For Outputting To HTML Next year's GCC 16 compiler release is continuing the trend of enhancing the compiler diagnostics support, including new features like optionally outputting compiler error/warning diagnostics to HTML format for better analysis...

Improved Diagnostics For GCC 16 - Including Support For Outputting To HTML - Phoronix

Next year's GCC 16 compiler release is continuing the trend of enhancing the compiler diagnostics support, including new features like optiona...

Many Debian/Ubuntu Packages For Intel Accelerators & Other Intel Software Have Been Orphaned In addition to some Intel Linux kernel drivers being "orphaned" following the corporate restructuring at Intel between developers being laid off and others deciding to pursue opportunities elsewhere, these changes have also led to a number of Intel-related software packages within Debian being orphaned. In turn these Intel packages are also r…

Many Debian/Ubuntu Packages For Intel Accelerators & Other Intel Software Have Been Orphaned - Phoronix

In addition to some Intel Linux kernel drivers being 'orphaned' following the corporate restructuring at Intel between developers being l...

Cairo-Dock 3.6 Released With Wayland Support & HiDPI Cairo-Dock is back after a decade hiatus! From the early 2010's you may remember Cairo-Dock / GLX-Dock as a complementary dock for your Linux desktop. The last time writing about it was the Cairo-Dock 3.4 release in 2014 when it was working toward EGL/Wayland support. Since then it was rather inactive the past decade besides a small 3.5 update one year ago with a few fixes. But out this w…

Cairo-Dock 3.6 Released With Wayland Support & HiDPI - Phoronix

Cairo-Dock is back after a decade hiatus! From the early 2010's you may remember Cairo-Dock / GLX-Dock as a complementary dock for your Linux ...

Linux 6.18 Will Be A Big Improvement For Servers Encountering DDoS Attacks A set of patches merged via the networking pull request for the Linux 6.18 will help servers better cope with distributed denial of service "DDoS" attacks. Thanks to a Google engineer there are some significant optimizations found in the Linux 6.18 kernel code for more efficiently handling of UDP receive performance under stress, such as in DDoS scenarios...

Linux 6.18 Will Be A Big Improvement For Servers Encountering DDoS Attacks - Phoronix

A set of patches merged via the networking pull request for the Linux 6.18 will help servers better cope with distributed denial of service 'D...

EXT4, EROFS & NTF3 File-System Drivers Ready With Improvements For Linux 6.18 In addition to XFS enabling online fsck by default, Bcachefs being stripped from the mainline Linux kernel, and Btrfs improvements making for a notable first few days of the Linux 6.18 window, there's more. The EXT4, EROFS, and NTFS3 drivers are bringing the latest batch of file-system changes for Linux 6.18...

EXT4, EROFS & NTFS3 File-System Drivers Ready With Improvements For Linux 6.18 - Phoronix

In addition to XFS enabling online fsck by default, Bcachefs being stripped from the mainline Linux kernel, and Btrfs improvements making for a not...