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I tried OpenBSD as my main desktop OS, and it made me rethink Linux  How-To Geek

How AI is Changing Linux VPS Security for Businesses  AI News

A Huawei engineer posted to the Mesa mailing list today over potentially upstreaming a Vulkan driver they have developed for an in-house GPU. However, at least in current form, this new in-house GPU Vulkan driver is likely dead in the water from being upstreamed into Mesa...

The Intel Arc A-Series graphics (DG2) remains in a bit of an awkward state on Linux due to the transition period moving from the i915 kernel driver to more modern and feature capable Xe kernel driver. It's only post-Alchemist where the Intel Xe driver is officially supported and used by default while those opting for the Xe driver with the A-Series can often enjoy better performance and functionality. Except one of the caveats in using the Xe driver on Alchemist GPUs has been the lack of proper media acceleration support...

Patches Posted To Improve Linux Media Acceleration On Intel Alchemist GPUs  Phoronix

Last week Debian developers began considering a general resolution over AI large language model (LLM) usage within the Debian project. They are now up to weighing five different proposals for how to permit or block AI/LLM usage in the Debian space...

Over the past few Intel VA-API Media Driver releases we have seen preparations made for Nova Lake video acceleration. That has continued today with the Intel Media Driver and Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime releases today with their new quarterly feature releases...

Linux Kernel 7.2 RC5 Lands With Massive Networking Update  Open Source For You

The post TiDB: Build a MySQL-Compatible Distributed SQL Database on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

This tutorial shows you how to install TiDB using TiUP, start a local cluster, connect to it with the MySQL

The post TiDB: Build a MySQL-Compatible Distributed SQL Database on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

GNOME 50.3 Enables Remote Desktop Hardware Acceleration for AMD GPUs  9to5Linux

As Linux gaming gains ground, Valve brings Mesa's powerhouse AMD driver to Windows  xda-developers.com

GOG Heard Players: GOG Galaxy Client to Get Native Linux Support  ixbt.games

Devs Port Open-Source Linux AMD Graphics Driver to Windows  TechPowerUp

The System76 and Pop!_OS developers continue quickly iterating on their Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment...

Sent out today was another week's worth of features and other code changes to the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver. We are nearing the cut-off of new feature material for next month's Linux 7.3 kernel but there is some nice feature work in store for this week...

DRM Format Modifiers For Old AMD GPUs Coming With Linux 7.3: Thanks Valve  Phoronix

You might think Linux always wins — but a lifelong Linux user found something in Windows 11 worth switching for  Windows Central

GOG confirms a native Linux Galaxy launcher is finally in development  TweakTown

Today's Steam client beta update brings some new game streaming enhancements for Linux gamers...

Steam Client Adds HDR Streaming On Steam Deck OLED, AV1 Video Streaming  Phoronix