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The x86/entry pull request last week for the Linux 6.9 kernel contained just a single patch but it was a significant one at that in that it helps lower the overhead for CR3 writes and the benefits can be visible for workloads like Linux's perf functionality...

Linux 6.9 Lowering The Overhead Of CR3 Writes  Phoronix

GNOME 46 Kathmandu: Elevating the Linux desktop environment with new features and enhancements  BetaNews

GNOME 46 is out. Here are all the improvements you need to know  ZDNet

Linux Supply Chain Validation Cheat Sheet  Security Boulevard

Linux Supply Chain Validation Cheat Sheet  Security Boulevard

The GNOME project has announced the much anticipated release of the GNOME 46 desktop...

GNOME 46 "Kathmandu" Desktop Environment Released, Here's What's New  9to5Linux

GNOME 46 “Kathmandu” Desktop Environment Released, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Announced back in 2021 by the Linux Foundation was Amazon Lumberyard becoming the Open 3D Engine and the Linux Foundation fostering the Open 3D Foundation for evolving this new open-source game engine. Three years later there is now a commercial game announced for the Open 3D Engine (O3DE)...

A Game Is Finally Announced For The Open 3D Engine  Phoronix

Not a fan of Windows 11 gaming portables? Linux-powered alternative to Steam Deck might be the answer to your ...  TechRadar

DXVK 2.3.1 has been released for this Steam Play compknent that implements the Direct3D 9/10/11 APIs atop Vulkan. Notable with DXVK 2.3.1 is VK_NV_raw_access_chains support for more efficient shader code generation on NVIDIA GPUs...

DXVK 2.3.1 Brings More Efficient Shader Code Generation on NVIDIA GPUs  9to5Linux

A new Steam Deck OS is coming, and it could transform Valve's handheld  PCGamesN

In-step with early Power11 patches in Linux 6.9, IBM engineers have posted the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patches for enabling -mcpu=power11 targeting within this open-source compiler...

My 5 favorite multimedia player apps for Linux and what they can do for you  ZDNet

A new data wiper is targeting Linux x86 network devices  TechRadar

Tiny Corp has been frustrated before with AMD / ROCm and planned to drop AMD graphics cards in their planned compute boxes over it only to go back to AMD GPUs with their open-source driver stack later. It's now happened again following frustrations over firmware binaries. After recently lobbying AMD to at least open-source some relevant pieces of their firmware and at ~70% confidence over their plans, Tiny Corp announced on Tuesday they are dropping AMD GPUs again from their compute plans...

Following the revised Bcachefs code making it into Linux 6.9 and a warning for Bcachefs multi-device users to move past Linux 6.7, a batch of fixes was merged overnight for Linux 6.9 while further fixes to this file-system are expected soon...