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The latest Humble Bundle is one for Steam Deck / Controller fans  GamingOnLinux

This week the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) signed off on some new features coming for Fedora 40 this April...

New Features Approved For Fedora 40, Renewed Debate Over Dropping KDE X11 Support  Phoronix

Webcameras on newer Intel laptops have been challenging for Linux use without resorting to an out-of-tree driver and proprietary user-space components, but that's been thankfully changing with progress being made on an open-source stack. There's still proprietary firmware necessary for enabling the IPU6 image processing unit, but at least that too is now in linux-firmware.git for easy distribution and packaging by Linux distributions...

IPU6 Firmware Binaries Upstreamed For Recent Intel Laptops  Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6 Linux desktop environment available as Release Candidate 2  Notebookcheck.net

6 free, powerful creation tools for Linux | PCWorld  PCWorld

Since last August AMD Linux engineers have been working on P-State Preferred Core support for the "amd_pstate" driver so that this functionality can be leveraged under Linux for improved task placement...

AMD P-State Preferred Core Support Coming With Linux 6.9  Phoronix

January was a busy month with a number of notable hardware launches from the Framework 16 laptop to the new AMD Ryzen 8000G series APUs to the new System76 Thelio Major workstation powered by Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series. There were 268 original news articles and another 15 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles on Phoronix during the last month. With all that daily original content, here's a look back at the most popular news and reviews from January...

Last week CodeWeavers engineer Elizabeth Figura posted the initial patches for a Windows NT synchronization primitive driver for Linux for exposing /dev/ntsync for exposing some synchronization primitives available under Windows directly within the Linux kernel. This has the potential of sharply speeding up some Windows games and applications running under Wine on Linux or the likes of Valve's Steam Play (Proton). This week a second iteration of the patches were posted...

Windows NT Synchronization Primitive Driver For The Linux Kernel Revised  Phoronix

The Best Fusion 360 Alternatives in 2024  All3DP

Linux System Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and collectd  Linux Journal

GNU C Library vulnerabilities could impact Linux systems, security company says  ITPro

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Mesa 24.0 Linux Graphics Stack Released with NVK and RADV Driver Improvements  9to5Linux

AMD Releases ROCm 6.0.2 With Improved Stability For Instinct MI300 Series  Phoronix

AMD on Wednesday evening released ROCm 6.0.2 as the newest point release to their open-source compute stack...