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With the in-development NVK driver merged for Mesa 23.3 to provide open-source NVIDIA Vulkan API support when paired with the Nouveau kernel driver and the necessary Nouveau kernel driver improvements coming with Linux 6.6 for supporting this driver, Phoronix readers have been eager for some benchmarks... Well, here are some benchmarks on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 and RTX 30 series when comparing the latest NVK+Nouveau code compared to the proprietary NVIDIA Linux graphics driver stack.

What is the LibreOffice digital signature feature and how do you use it?  ZDNet

How to Install WordPress on Ubuntu  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Install and Use GNU nano to Edit Files on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

Suse, Oracle, CIQ join forces to fuel RHEL-compatible Linux distros  InfoWorld

Following the new Linux stable kernels this week to quickly mitigate the Intel Downfall and AMD Inception vulnerabilities, today brings another set of stable point releases. Among the fixes to be picked up since Tuesday is the other AMD fix for the week of a Zen 1 bug that could leak data following a divide by zero operation...

Linux 6.4.10 & LTS Kernels Updated With AMD Zen 1 Divide By ...  Phoronix

Linux 6.6 Receives Patches For AMD’s Next-Gen Zen 5 CPUs  Wccftech

Open Enterprise Linux Association takes aim at Red Hat Enterprise ...  SDxCentral

The upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel will finish removing old remnants of Wireless USB support...

Linux 6.6 To Finish Gutting Wireless USB & UWB  Phoronix

Developers of the BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system have long been carrying patches for supporting the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) on their platform while this week the code was upstreamed for GCC 14...

'The Open Source Licensing War is Over'  Slashdot

Linux project's first full version has all the subtlety of a Rhino in a China shop  The Register

Sent out today was the drm-intel-gt-next and drm-intel-next pull requests of the latest Intel graphics driver feature code for DRM-Next to then be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle. Both pull requests indicate these are the last planned feature updates ahead of Linux 6.6 but what's interesting is that with the latest code upcoming Meteor Lake graphics are still being treated as experimental...

Intel Meteor Lake Graphics Still Experimental "Force Probe" With ...  Phoronix

LLVM/Clang developers have been working on C23 language support for some time already but to this point it's only been exposed when using the -std=c2x target or -std=gnu2x for the GNU dialect. However, with C2x having been finalized this summer as C23, the LLVM Clang 18 compiler will now honor the -std=c23 option...

Linux Mint planning new 'EDGE' ISO, plus Linux Mint 21.3 due in ...  GamingOnLinux

Proton Experimental fixes Street Fighter 6 and disables NVAPI for ...  GamingOnLinux

Cloud Hypervisor -- the Rust-written open-source VMM that was started by Intel while having evolved into a Linux Foundation project with backing from multiple organizations -- is out with the Cloud-Hypervisor 34 release...