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I spent a year on an immutable distro, and the one thing I miss is being able to break stuff  XDA

Kodi 22 Enters Beta with Big Linux Rendering Changes  Linuxiac

Linux Foundation Backs Open DNS-Based AI Agent Identity  Open Source For You

AMD Patches Mainline Linux To Tackle Heterogeneous CPU Core Architectures  Open Source For You

Microsoft Opens Azure Linux 4.0 To Everyone  Open Source For You

Linux Association Of Canada Launches National Open Source Jobs Hub  Open Source For You

I Was Cyberbullied Into Using Linux Pallavolo (fJSMtmfFVF)  Fathom Journal

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‘DirtyClone’ Linux Kernel Vulnerability Leads to Root Access  SecurityWeek

5 free and open-source software (FOSS) to replace Microsoft, Google, and big tech  How-To Geek

A new Linux kernel patch series posted to the kernel mailing list minutes ago is introducing a new "Low Power" CPU core type for AMD heterogeneous processors. The x86 topology code in the Linux kernel already supports the notion of Performance and Efficiency type cores while now a new "Low Power" core type is being introduced for AMD heterogeneous platforms...

AMD Linux Patches Introduce New "Low Power" CPU Core Type  Phoronix

ZLUDA as a reminder is the open-source project that began as drop-in CUDA support for Intel graphics hardware and then was quietly funded by AMD for years as a drop-in CUDA replacement on AMD GPUs that went open-source after losing funding. That was then taken down and since late 2024 ZLUDA then began focusing on multi-GPU CUDA focused on AI after beginning to receive funding from an unspecified party. Now, unfortunately, funding has once again been cut from that unnamed party but in turn ZLUDA is focusing on PhysX and better Windows support...

You Can Spend Up to $11,944 on Purism's Librem 16 Linux Laptop  It's FOSS

It's not clear that any games have yet to deploy this open-source anti-cheat system but TLAC is a new open-source project that aims to provide a privacy-respecting alternative to kernel-level anti-cheat systems like Denuvo, Easy Anti-Cheat, and BattlEye...

TLAC Aims To Be An Open-Source Alternative To Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Systems  Phoronix

Crysis 2 Maximum Edition - Linux Intel I5 8250/UHD 620 #benchmark  YouTube

In time for the Mesa 26.2 stable release expected out in August, the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver is now exposing the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap descriptor heap support by default...

RADV Enables Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support By Default  Phoronix

OpenAPV, the Academy Software Foundation project that provides a reference implementation of the Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec is out with a new feature update...