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Coming about three weeks after DXVK 2.6.2, the DXVK 2.7 release adds support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer Vulkan extension by default on newer AMD and NVIDIA GPUs to significantly reduce CPU overhead in games like Final Fantasy XIV, God of War, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Watch Dogs 2, and others.

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free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system, as well as the buffers and caches used by the kernel. The information is gathered by parsing /proc/meminfo.

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Learn how to install Google Chrome on AlmaLinux 10 with this step-by-step guide tailored for Enterprise Linux users seeking a modern web browsing experience.

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Fedora Linux 43 is set to bring a significant change to how it handles system installations. Specifically, for systems using UEFI firmware on x86 architecture, the Anaconda installer will soon require the use of GPT partition tables.

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My RV2 board is running Ubuntu 24.04. Included is a configuration tool called orangepi-config. Let’s see what it offers.

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Here’s our verdict captured in a LinuxLinks-style chart. We only feature free and open source software in this article.

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The interfaces between C and Rust in the kernel have grown over time; any non-trivial Rust driver will use a number of these. Tasks like allocating memory, dealing with immovable structures, and interacting with locks are necessary for handling most devices. There are also many subsystem-specific bindings, but the focus this time will be on an overview of the bindings that all kernel Rust code can be expected to use.

Q4OS is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution designed to offer classic-style user interface (Trinity) and simple accessories, and to serve stable APIs for complex third-party applications, such as Google Chrome, VirtualBox and development tools. The system is also very useful for virtual cloud environments due to its very low hardware requirements.

Version:next-20250718 (linux-next) Released:2025-07-18

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (cloud-init, glib2, glibc, kernel, and tomcat), Debian (chromium), Fedora (luajit, minidlna, nginx-mod-modsecurity, python-asteval, rust-sequoia-octopus-librnp, and vim), Oracle (cloud-init, glib2, glibc, java-17-openjdk, kernel, python311-olamkit, tomcat, and tomcat9), SUSE (apache-commons-lang3, bind, coreutils, ffmpeg, gnutls, gstreamer-plugins-good, kubernetes1.25, kubernetes1.28, libxml2, MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE, poppler, python311, and python312), and Ubuntu (erlang, ledgersmb, libmobi, libsoup3, libsoup2.4, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-tegra, linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15, linux-nvidia-tegra-igx, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, linux, linux-aws, linux-oem-6.8, linux, linux-gcp, linux-raspi, linux-realtime, linux-aws, linux-aws-fips, linux-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-azure-6.8, linux-azure-nvidia, linux-hwe-6.8, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-6.8, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-intel-iot-realtime, linux-realtime, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-oem-6.14, linux-raspi, linux-realtime, php7.0, php7.2, php8.1, php8.3, php8.4, python-aiohttp, and rails).

GXDE OS is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution that combines Debian with Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE), developed by the deepin project. It is based on Debian's "Testing" branch. It ships with up-to-date Linux kernel, base system and applications, and it includes a "Spark Store", a software application marketplace with support for Android applications. The distribution is available for the aarch64 and x86_64 processor architectures.

Linuxfx is a Brazilian Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It ships with an intuitive Cinnamon desktop user interface designed to facilitate migration of users from Windows. It includes a video management system called Sentinela, a computer vision software with video analytics and software for access control (facial recognition and automatic number plate recognition), object detection, gender, age and mood detection. Other features of the distribution include a new personal assistant, a WX theme for desktop and system applications, and compatibility with software written for Windows (.exe and .msi) through a Wine port. Following the release of Linuxfx 10.6 the distribution became a commercial offering.

The 6.15.7, 6.12.39, 6.6.99, 6.1.146, 5.15.189, 5.10.240, and 5.4.296 stable kernels have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.

Version:6.15.7 (stable) Released:2025-07-17 Source:linux-6.15.7.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.15.7.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.15.7

Version:6.12.39 (longterm) Released:2025-07-17 Source:linux-6.12.39.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.39.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.39

Version:6.6.99 (longterm) Released:2025-07-17 Source:linux-6.6.99.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.99.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.99

Expirion Linux is a Devuan-based desktop distribution which offers LXQt and Xfce desktop editions. The project provides separate releases built from the latest "stable" and "testing" branches of Devuan, with runit and SysV as init system options. Expirion ships with a more recent kernel than Devuan does and it also adds some user-friendly touches, custom themes and wallpapers, as well as productivity applications, such as LibreOffice, Chromium, Firefox, Thunderbird, Audacity, Brasero and VLC.

Version:6.1.146 (longterm) Released:2025-07-17 Source:linux-6.1.146.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.146.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.146

Version:5.15.189 (longterm) Released:2025-07-17 Source:linux-5.15.189.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.15.189.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.189

Version:5.10.240 (longterm) Released:2025-07-17 Source:linux-5.10.240.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.10.240.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.10.240