SteamOS 3.9.5 Released With Linux 7.2 Kernel, KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop & Other Updates

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KDE Plasma 6.9 Stabilizes KWin's Wayland Picture-In-Picture Support

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systemd Merges Support For Rust Programs

You can now write systemd binaries in Rust! Sans Cargo.

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Linux's Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Sees Big Speed-Up: ~268s To ~50ms

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539 MM Patches Merged For Linux 7.4 From Optimizations To More DAMON

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systemd Merges Support For Rust Programs

You can now write systemd binaries in Rust! Sans Cargo.

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Wild 0.11 Linker Released - Now Able To Link Linux Kernel Modules, WASM By Default

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Linux 7.4 Graphics Driver Changes Headlined By AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Features

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KDE Plasma 6.9 Stabilizes KWin's Wayland Picture-In-Picture Support

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OBS Studio 33.0 Released With Massive Update To CEF, Improved Plugin Loading

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Linux 7.4 Merges Slab Updates With A Nice Performance Improvement

24% throughput improvement in memory management benchmark.

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Dynamic PAMT Merged For Linux 7.4 To Help @intel Servers Save Precious RAM

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XFS Sees Small Performance Optimizations & Bug Fixes For Linux 7.4

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OpenSSL 4.1 Released With More AVX-512 Optimizations

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Mesa RADV Change Satisfies More Steam Play Games On Aging AMD GFX8 GPUs

Thanks Valve! Making AMD Polaris gaming on Linux still possible.

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Linux 7.4 Fixes @AMD CPU TLB Size Reporting For Zen 5 & Newer

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HPFS Is The Latest File-System Slated For Removal On Linux

The High Performance File System developed by Microsoft and IBM for OS/2

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Borealis: Asahi Linux's Apple Silicon Mesa Vulkan Driver Forked For Vibe Coding

Part of the "Aurora Silicon" initiative for more AI/vibe coding around Apple hardware on Linux.

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Fedora 45 Hits A Second NO-GO: Not Releasing Until November

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Linux 7.4 Begins Landing Patches To Speed Up The Kernel Build Process

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