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It's been a while since having anything major to talk about with the NILFS2 file-system but it looks like that could be changing. NILFS2 as a reminder is a log-structured file-system with continuous snapshotting with its NILFS predecessor having been in the mainline kernel for two decades since the mid Linux 2.6 days.

There hasn't been too much churn around the NILFS2 file-system driver or user-space tools in recent years during a time at which the likes of Btrfs, F2FS, and Bcachefs capture much of the limelight. But it looks like as we approach 2026 that NILFS2 could be seeing some renewed activity

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https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/21b88bb5-10a3-4566-919d-f9a6b9c3e632/openai-ostp-rfi-oct-27-2025.pdf

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Team Cherry have released Patch 4 for Hollow Knight: Silksong bringing with it more bug fixes, along with a big change to how controllers are handled. More fixes were added since the Beta, and it's live for everyone now.

Don't forget to check out the GamingOnLinux guide to modding Hollow Knight: Silksong, so you can get some pretty incredible extras for it, and some to help you get through it if you're finding it difficult.

German Linux hardware manufacturer TUXEDO has announced the launch of its new InfinityBook Max 15, a 15.3-inch business ultrabook that blurs the line between professional workstation and gaming laptop.

Despite its thin, all-metal aluminium chassis and weight of just 1.95 kg, the InfinityBook Max 15 delivers serious computing power. It is powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series of processors, including the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (12 cores) and Ryzen AI 9 365 (10 cores), as well as the entry-level Ryzen AI 7 350 (8 cores).

Posted last month were new Linux kernel scheduler-related patches rewriting the MM CID management code. The main takeaway for end-users from this set of 19 Linux kernel patches from an Intel engineer was seeing 14~18% improvement in a PostgreSQL database benchmark but that more benchmarks were needed. Curiosity got the best of me and I recently tested these patches on an AMD EPYC server to seeing some very enticing results for this in-development code.

Now this looks like a cool mix, Lexispell brings some roguelike strategy flavour to word games with physics and the trailer easily sold me.

Dare I say it? I'm going to — it's another game that looks just a little bit inspired by Balatro. Yes, a name you've heard a lot I've no doubt, but Balatro has clearly inspired the UI design of a number of more casual games recently and this is another. Not that it's a bad thing, it looks lovely. The gameplay has a similar theme too, as you go through rounds of trying to beat the score but here it's done with words.

Check out the trailer

It has been two years already since the Linux Containers project forked Canonical's LXD project as Incus. Now joining the Incus family is IncusOS as an immutable Linux OS built atop a Debian base with OpenZFS file-system support and designed around running containers with Incus

Morrowind just got even better with the new OpenMW 0.50.0 release, as the free and open source game engine reimplementation has some big fancy new features.

One of the headliners being vastly improved gamepad support, allowing you to play through it properly and interact with the UI. This is going to make it a whole lot nicer to play on handhelds like the Steam Deck. They've also made "foundational steps in dehardcoding combat, further expands our Lua scripting API and, among the host of user interface fix-ups, introduces the highly requested quick item transfer".