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If your Windows support is ending, it's time to learn Linux. Here's the best distro for beginners  ZDNET

NVIDIA Posts 60 Patches For Open-Source Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support On Nouveau  Phoronix

Ben Skeggs formerly of Red Hat who had been the maintainer of the Nouveau Linux kernel driver for reverse-engineered open-source NVIDIA driver support had joined NVIDIA last year and continued his engagements with the open-source Linux community. For ending out April there's a big surprise... The NVIDIA engineer posted a set of 60 patches enabling support for NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs atop the open-source Nouveau kernel driver...

Firefox 138 was released yesterday and wasn't particularly exciting besides enhanced profile management and Tab Groups support... Aside from that it was a pretty basic release. In turn Firefox 139 is now in beta and that release does bring some items worth mentioning like faster HTTP/3 upload performance...

Can a Linux laptop replace my MacBook? Only if it looks like this and has these specs  ZDNET

AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 was released today as the first update to this official open-source AMD Vulkan driver since the previous release in mid-March. AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 brings new hardware support, new Vulkan API extensions, and other new features...

Pixman as the open-source pixel manipulation library used by the X.Org Server and Cairo graphics library is out today with Pixman 0.46 as the newest feature release...

EA rebrand and refresh their anti-cheat into EA Javelin Anticheat, still blocks Linux / Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Proton 10 gets a first Beta to improve game compatibility on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux  GamingOnLinux

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Thunderbird 138 Adds New Default Color Override for High Contrast Mode on Linux  9to5Linux

Upgraded Albabat ransomware can now target Mac and Linux OS  iZOOlogic

Valve and CodeWeavers today announced the much anticipated beta release of Proton 10.0 as the newest version of their downstream version of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

Valve's Proton 10.0 Beta Released With More Windows Games Now Playable On Linux  Phoronix

5 Reasons Now Is the Right Time to Buy a Linux Laptop  How-To Geek

You can run Arch Linux in Windows now - here's how  ZDNET

Watch out for any Linux malware sneakily evading syscall-watching antivirus  theregister.com

Introduced last month in the Vulkan 1.4.311 spec was VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for supporting BF16 types within SPIR-V shaders. Merged today for Mesa 25.2 is that BFloat16 support for Intel's open-source Vulkan Linux driver...

How to install AdGuard v1.0 STABLE on Linux  BetaNews