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Galvanize Your Grip On Grep With This Great Grep Guide  Hackaday

Meta's Yann Collet just released Zstd 1.5.6 as the newest version of this Zstandard compression implementation. This release is driven in part by Google Chrome 123 adding support for Zstd encoding for web traffic. Chrome now allows Zstandard (zstd) for the content-encoding to speed-up page load speeds and bandwidth savings...

A list of tools useful for diagnosing problems with Linux, ``pre-installation is strongly recommended,'' says the author of ...  GIGAZINE（ギガジン）

Intel adds Arc A750E and A580E SKUs to Linux drivers — likely offloading Alchemist silicon before Battlemage arrives  Tom's Hardware

Linux-capable RISC-V soft cores for Achronix FPGAs  Electronics Weekly

Latest Update to Development Environment and Programming Language Xojo Adds Version Control to all Licenses ...  PR Newswire

Blender 4.1 is officially out today as the newest version of this wildly popular, open-source and cross-platform 3D modeling software...

Blender 4.1 Released With Faster Linux CPU Rendering & AMD RDNA3 APU Support  Phoronix

Fedora Linux 40 Beta now available  BetaNews

With the SDL library that's widely-used by cross-platform games with the current SDL 3.0 development code it prefers Wayland over X11, but a new pull request would temporarily revert that on the basis of the Wayland ecosystem still not being up to par...

Fedora 40 Beta Released With GNOME 46 & KDE Plasma 6.0 On Wayland Desktops  Phoronix

The beta release of Fedora 40 is now available for testing ahead of the planned official release next month...

Fedora 40: The 4 new features I'm most excited about  ZDNet

Fedora Linux 40 Beta Released with GNOME 46, KDE Plasma 6, and Linux Kernel 6.8  9to5Linux

Regatta OS 24 is the distribution to beat for gaming on Linux  ZDNet

Nova, a Rust-based Linux driver for NVIDIA GPUs announced  GamingOnLinux

While Linux 6.9 brings many great changes and new features / hardware support, on the deprecation side it's deprecating the classic EXT2 file-system driver...

Linux 6.9 Deprecates The EXT2 File-System Driver  Phoronix

Sandfly Security: Agentless Linux Security Company Raises Seed Funding  Pulse 2.0

AMD today released its third and last open-source Vulkan driver update of the quarter...