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AMD Radeon PRO W7500/W7600 Deliver Great Open-Source Linux ...  Phoronix

The just-announced AMD Radeon PRO W7500 and W7600 are working quite well under a fully open-source and upstream graphics driver stack. AMD is making available a new Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver release for those on enterprise Linux distributions, but those living more on the leading-edge and preferring the open-source upstream Linux/Mesa driver experience, I've been testing these new RDNA3 professional offerings and the support is already in place and working out rather well. In this article are some initial tests of the Radeon PRO W7500 and W7600 as well as showing how the performance of the new packaged driver compares to that of using all open-source and upstream GPU driver components.

KIOXIA Announces the First Samples of Hardware that Supports the ...  Business Wire

KIOXIA Announces the First Samples of Hardware that Supports the Linux Foundation's Software-Enabled Flas  Benzinga

Earlier this year AMD introduced the RDNA3-based Radeon PRO W7800/W7900 series while today the company is introduced the Radeon PRO W7500 and W7600 series at the lower-end of the professional graphics spectrum...

Linux Rising: Steam Usage Surpasses macOS for Gaming  It's FOSS News

Intel open-source driver engineers have begun starting work on preparing the Linux graphics driver stack to ultimately handle Lunar Lake integrated graphics that is the generation following Arrow Lake...

Intel Begins Working On "Xe2" Linux Graphics Driver Support For ...  Phoronix

Middleweight champ MX Linux 23 delivers knockout punch  The Register

MX Linux 23 is a worthwhile upgrade • The Register  The Register

Fedora Asahi Remix to Bring Complete Linux Experience to Apple ...  It's FOSS News

Microsoft has released an updated version of its CBL-Mariner 2.0 in-house Linux distribution that includes various security patches, new packages being added to the OS, and a variety of other updates...

Microsoft's CBL-Mariner 2.0 Linux Distribution Adds Clippy  Phoronix

LibreOffice 7.6 as the next major update to this open-source office suite is due out in mud-August while today's RC2 release serves as a last chance for testing out this updated free software alternative to Microsoft Office...

How Red Hat's License Change Is Reinvigorating Enterprise Linux ...  The New Stack

The 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard looks awesome  GamingOnLinux

Linux continues hitting above 3% desktop user share on Statcounter  GamingOnLinux

ChromeOS Is Splitting the Browser From the OS, Getting More Like ...  Slashdot

Fedora Linux comes to Apple Silicon Mac computers  BetaNews

Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 'Faye' enters development and Ubuntu ...  BetaNews