Yesterday I noted some early performance regressions I’ve found on the Linux 6.19 kernel compared to Linux 6.18 LTS stable. Those initial benchmarks were on an AMD EPYC server. Since then I’ve seen many of the same workloads regressing similarly on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation between Linux 6.18 and Linux 6.19 Git. Given the significant impact and AMD Threadripper processors always helping out to speed-up Linux kernel build times to make for a quicker and more manageable kernel bisecting experience, here is a look at some of the results for the Linux 6.19 performance regressions.

In this article, you will learn about the vipw and vigr commands that let you safely edit the configuration files related to users or groups in your favorite text editor.

AMD previously talked of simplifying the in-box Linux support for ROCm during the second half of 2025. So far we haven’t seen any groundbreaking changes from that initiative besides AMD working on various package archives/repositories to make it easier to install the latest ROCm on different Linux distributions. But today a big announcement is now public that Canonical with next year’s Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release will provide official ROCm packages along with other libraries…

The Linux Foundation today announced it’s formed another foundation under its growing umbrella that extends well beyond the traditional “Linux” landscape: the Agentic AI Foundation…

As US legal reach over cloud data keeps spooking EU regulators and customers, SUSE is betting that pairing its software with up‑and‑coming European providers like Evroc will give it an edge over US‑based rivals.

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With Firefox 146 released, which is exciting for delivering fractional scaling on Wayland, Firefox 147 Beta is now available and it’s also quite exciting to Linux users for another reason…

Learn common Docker mistakes, from bloated images to security risks, and how to fix them for safer, faster containers.

One of the things that has historically stood between Linux and the
fabled “year of the Linux desktop” is its lack of support for video
games. Many users who would have happily abandoned Windows have,
reluctantly, stayed for the video games or had to deal with dual
booting. In the past few years, though, Linux support for
games—including those that only have Windows versions—has
improved dramatically, if one is willing to put the pieces
together. Bazzite, an image-based
Fedora derivative, is a project that aims to let users play games and
use the Linux desktop with almost no assembly required.

AMD today announced their newest member of their expansive EPYC family: the EPYC Embedded 2005 series. The new AMD EPYC Embedded 2005 Series are intended primarily for networking, storage, and industrial devices while these BGA processors will likely see other interesting thin-server uses as well.

Version
146.0 of the Firefox web browser has been released. One feature of
particular interest to Linux users is that Firefox now natively
supports fractional scaled displays on Wayland. Firefox Labs has also
been made available to all users even if they opt out of telemetry or
participating in studies. “This means more experimental features
are now available to more people.“

This release also adds support for Module-Lattice-Based
Key-Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM) for WebRTC. ML-KEM is
“believed to be secure against attackers with large quantum
computers“. See the release notes for all changes.

For benefiting their Azure cloud and other users of Hyper-V virtualization at large, Microsoft has rolled out a number of feature additions and improvements for their Hyper-V kernel code in Linux 6.19…

Apply now for the Flock to Fedora 2026 Call for Proposals (CfP) at cfp.fedoraproject.org. This year, the submission deadline for the Flock CfP is Monday, February 2nd, 2026. Flock 2026 registration is open Last month we announced that we’ll be convening again in Prague for Flock 2026 in June. Everyone interested in attending can head […]

Today, the KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.5.4 as the fourth maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop environment series with more improvements and bug fixes.

For the past 15 years the Smatch static analysis tool has been routinely run for uncovering countless bugs within the Linux kernel. Dan Carpenter who authored Smatch and has been routinely analyzing the Linux kernel with it has authored more than 5,568 patches over the years to become one of the top bug fixers for the kernel. But his funding at Linaro has been cut and the project’s future now in question…

Last week saw the main set of block and IO_uring feature patches for the Linux 6.19 merge window but some additional block subsystem material was merged on Monday. There are various NVMe updates now merged plus enabling per-CPU BIO caching by default to help with file-system performance…

The Flash-Friendly File-System “F2FS” is enjoying more performance optimizations and other improvements for the Linux 6.19 kernel cycle…

Since Showtime replaced Totem as the default video player of GNOME, the desktop has lacked thumbnail capabilities for audio and video files. But to address that defect, the Rust-based gst-thumbnailers project has been in development to leverage GStreamer and paired with Rust to provide safe thumbnail generation capabilities for audio and video content…

The newest Mesa 26.0-devel code as of today has landed initial support for Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics into the Freedreno Gallium3D driver. The Adreno Gen 8 graphics so far are most notably used by the new Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop SoC with its X2-85 GPU as well as the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 with Adreno 840 graphics…

Ventoy 1.1.08, an open-source tool for creating a bootable USB drive to load multiple ISO files, now supports FreeBSD 15.0.

Analysts worry lazy users could have agents complete mandatory infosec training, and attackers could do far nastier thingsAgentic browsers are too risky for most organizations to use, according to analyst firm Gartner.…