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AMD-Xilinx Versal Watchdog Driver Coming In Linux 6.5  Phoronix

The Red Hat Drama Is Highlighting Open Source Software's ...  VICE

Steam Deck vs. ASUS ROG Ally Arch Linux Gaming Performance  Phoronix

With the ASUS ROG Ally gaming handheld that began shipping last month I've so far looked at the Linux support for this device as well as looking at the Windows 11 vs. Linux gaming performance as well as the Ryzen Z1 Extreme CPU performance. What many Phoronix readers have been most interested in seeing though are the side-by-side benchmarks for Valve's Steam Deck up against the ASUS ROG Ally. Today's benchmarks provide just that comparison plus some CPU benchmarks too.

AMD CPUs Retain Dominance On Linux Platforms, Trails Behind Intel in Windows OS  Wccftech

The 6 Best File Systems for Installing Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Getting help on Linux  Network World

As I've written about a few times in recent months, AMD has been enhancing GPU support for use under Xen virtualization. Their interests in Xen weren't clear to this point given that KVM virtualization tends to be the dominant solution these days when it comes to open-source Linux virtualization. Now it's been revealed that the AMD GPU interests in Xen stem from an in-vehicle infotainment play...

UDisks 2.10 Released With Native NVMe Support, LVM2 RAID  Phoronix

UDisks 2.10 was released last week for this set abstraction layer providing a daemon and tooling around the manipulation of disks and storage devices under Linux...

Liberty Phone Runs neither iOS nor Android, and It Costs $2,200. But Why?  Gizchina.com

The LXD Project Finds a New Home at Canonical  It's FOSS News

How to pipe the output of one command to another in Linux  ZDNet

How to pipe the output of one command to another in Linux  ZDNet

Thanks to Joshua Ashton of Valve's Linux team, the Mesa RADV driver has added support for the VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness Vulkan extension as an efficiency win and will be beneficial for Steam Play gaming...

In addition to Lunar Lake sound driver support in Linux 6.5 and the recent SOF update for Sound Open Firmware for Lunar Lake, Linux 6.5 is also bringing initial SoundWire Intel ACE2.x support that is part of the Lunar Lake audio capabilities...

Intel Plumbs SoundWire ACE2.x Support, Premiering With Lunar Lake  Phoronix

Happy Birthday to GamingOnLinux - 14 years old today ...  GamingOnLinux

Released yesterday was a new version of UPower, the FreeDesktop.org software known long ago as DeviceKit-Power and used as an abstraction layer for enumerating power devices on Linux and other platforms. The new UPower 1.90.1 release is the first update to this software in just shy of one year...

Embedded Linux Market Challenges and Opportunities, Size and ...  Digital Journal