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4 Free Ways Every Steam Deck Owner Can Customize Their Experience  bgr.com

The close_range system call for closing all file descriptors "FDs" in a given range should enjoy a nice speed boost with the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel...

One of the limitations of the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver has been the lack of its support for HDMI 2.1 and later. AMD has wanted to support HDMI 2.1+ functionality under Linux but it's been legally blocked by the HDMI Forum. But anxious independent users have been working on open-source patches for wiring up HDMI 2.1 into the AMDGPU driver outside of the realm of AMD and the HDMI Forum's blessings...

Experimental Out-Of-Tree Code Aims To Provide HDMI 2.1 FRL For AMD Linux Driver  Phoronix

Experts Share Three Ways To Switch Linux Distros Safely  findarticles.com

Why is Debian Called the Universal Operating System, Again?  It's FOSS

How to switch Linux distros and retain all of your data  ZDNET

GhostBSD lead developer Eric Turgeon published an update regarding X.Org Server vs. XLibre vs. Wayland planning for the GhostBSD distribution moving forward as well as some future uncertainties to this desktop-focused, FreeBSD-derived OS...

Easy Anti-Cheat is coming to Rocket League, but Psyonix promises not to get all Fortnite with it and hose your Steam Deck and Linux installs  PC Gamer

KDE Plasma 6.6 arrives with more customization options, a new login manager, and much more  How-To Geek

Five Atomic Linux Distros Win Confidence For Updates  findarticles.com

This one command-line app saves me an hour every day  How-To Geek

5 atomic Linux distros I trust for stress-free OS updates - and why  ZDNET

With memory pricing being as wild as it is these days and with MRDIMMs on Xeon 6 Granite Rapids offering much more memory bandwidth than conventional DDR5 RDIMMs, you may be wondering about the performance impact when not populating all twelve memory channels on the Xeon 6900 series processors. In this article are benchmarks to demonstrate the performance difference of MRDIMM-8800 memory across using six, eight, ten, and twelve MRDIMMs with a Xeon 6980P server.

Mesa 26.0 improves ray-tracing performance for AMD Radeon GPUs on Linux  Sportskeeda Tech

These are the only Linux distros I recommend for developers  How-To Geek

Check out the full second episode of Games For Everyone  GamingOnLinux

KDE Plasma 6.6 Officially Released  TechPowerUp

I just set up a new Linux desktop, here are the first 5 things I did  How-To Geek

A pull request for the Microsoft .NET Runtime build on Linux to use IO_uring for sockets is showing some massive performance benefits...