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GEEKOM GT1 Mega review with Ubuntu 24.10 – Part 3: Linux on an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H “Meteor Lake” mini PC  CNX Software

Alpine Linux 3.21 is out today as the newest version of this simple, lightweight, and security-minded Linux distribution that is popular for use within containerized environments, embedded systems, and more...

Alpine Linux 3.21 Released With Linux 6.12 & GCC 14, LoongArch CPU Support  Phoronix

Microsoft's WSL 2 looks like it could be getting even stronger with official support from Fedora  Windows Central

With the new Linux kernel patches posted yesterday for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernels on x86_64 CPUs as part of that patch series was introducing new Kconfig build options around the x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels. It turns out though that Torvalds is completely against how the x86_64 feature levels are handled by the compiler toolchain folks and doesn't want to see it invading the kernel...

Linus Torvalds Comes Out Against "Completely Broken" x86_64 Feature Levels  Phoronix

The Linux 6.8 kernel merged the Imagination PowerVR driver as a new open-source driver for supporting the PowerVR "Rogue" graphics architecture and being developed in tandem by Imagination Tech with their upstream Mesa Vulkan driver. Initially this PowerVR driver was catering to ARM SoCs with the Rogue graphics while now the open-source driver is being extended to work on RISC-V too...

3 free Linux distros that look and feel like Windows  PCWorld

Linux Foundation releases ‘Census III’ open source report  Developer News

The "AMDXDNA" accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPU is set to be introduced in the Linux 6.14 kernel next year. Ahead of that debut, a new set of patches from AMD surfaced on Wednesday to provide fixes and code improvements as well as introducing support for newer Ryzen AI "NPU6" IP...

New AMD XDNA Linux Driver Patches Add Ryzen AI NPU6 IP, Other Improvements  Phoronix

Patches from a Bytedance engineer for the Linux kernel allow for overcoming the current 4K page size limitation of RISC-V and introduce a new 64K page size option...

Delta Force developer mentions they will look at supporting Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for  The Register

EndeavourOS is a great way to enter the Arch Linux ecosystem  XDA Developers

Building off the Mesa 24.3 release from two weeks ago is now Mesa 24.3.1 as the first stable point release following their usual bi-weekly release regiment...

The DRM Panic infrastructure has been in the Linux kernel for several releases now and allows for a kernel-based experience similar to Windows' "Blue Screen of Death as well as more recently allowing QR code kernel error messages and other features. The Intel kernel DRM driver has seen some patches for enabling DRM Panic support...

Intel Linux Display Driver Being Adapted For DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" Support  Phoronix

KDE Is Developing Its Own Flagship Linux Distro, But WHY?  Forbes

With the recent release of Blender 4.3 for this leading open-source 3D modeling software, I've been carrying out some fresh NVIDIA vs. AMD GPU benchmarks for accelerated rendering across several different popular benchmark scenes.