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Google engineer Eric Biggers who is known for his many Linux crypto subsystem performance optimizations has seen his latest pull requests land in Linux 6.19. Notable among them are some AES-GCM optimizations benefiting AMD Zen 3 processors and separately AVX-512 processors also benefit too from this latest round of optimization work...
Red Hat's Peter Hutterer announced the release today of xkbcomp 1.5, the CLI utility used for compiling X Keyboard Extension (XBD) keyboard descriptions for the X.Org Server. Driving this new xkbcomp release are fixes for four security issues...
And he is not wrong actually.
WordPress 6.9 “Gene” introduces block-level Notes, faster editing tools, refined dashboard navigation, and the new Abilities API.
VLC 3.0.22 media player adds a dark palette option, Qt6 build support, Windows ARM64 builds, and the largest set of security fixes in the 3.0 series.
Another operating system says farewell to 32-bit x86.
In addition to new AMD CPU features being merged today for Linux 6.19, there are also some new Intel CPU features that hit Linux Git today that are worth highlighting...
Forget microSD cards, I'm buying these instead.
Linux gaming market share surges to historic November High
If you doubt Linux isn't gaining popularity, you only have to look at Zorin OS's download numbers.
Linux Mint 22.3 ‘Zena’ is readying a beta release for testing, with the distro’s developers aiming to have it out in the first half of December. If it feels a bit “soon” for a new version of Linux Mint to be coming it’s because the release of Linux Mint 22.2 arrived much later than usual. As the distro’s developers don’t want their standard release schedule to slip, and many of the bigger changes planned have been in gestation for a while, there’s no reason to hold back for the sake of it. Amongst changes coming in Linux Mint 22.3 are […]
No more bash scripts for installing all the software you need.
VLC 3.0.22 open-source media player is now available for download with AMD GPU Frame Rate Doubler, a dav1d-all-layers option, and more. Here's what's new!
by George Whittaker The stable release of Linux Kernel 6.18 was officially tagged on November 30, 2025. It’s expected to become this year’s major long-term support (LTS) kernel, something many users and distributions care about. Here’s a breakdown of the most significant changes and improvements in this release: Core Improvements: Performance, Memory, Infrastructure The kernel’s memory allocation subsystem gets a major upgrade with “sheaves”, a per-CPU caching layer for slab allocations. This reduces locking overhead and speeds up memory allocation and freeing, improving overall system responsiveness. A new device-mapper target dm-pcache arrives, enabling use of persistent memory (e.g. NVDIMM/CXL) as a cache layer for block devices, useful for systems with fast non-volatile memory, SSDs, or hybrid storage. Overall memory management and swapping performance have been improved, which should help under memory pressure or heavy workloads. Networking & Security Enhancements Networking gets
The Cinnamon application launcher is looking a lot snazzier.
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