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5 Linux productivity apps I depend on every day, and how to install them from Snap  ZDNet

5 Linux productivity apps I depend on every day, and how to install them from Snap  ZDNet

While the Linux kernel has seen increased activity around dropping old/unused hardware drivers and other support, for old hardware that is still proven to be used on upstream Linux kernel releases does stick around and even will see the occasional fix... The latest example of that is a fix on the way for restoring Linux kernel support for the Transmeta Crusoe, the x86-compatible processor released back in 2000...

How to play Windows games on Linux using Proton  XDA Developers

Webcamera support on recent generations of Intel laptops have tended to be a mess due to the Intel IPU6 requiring an out-of-tree kernel driver and a proprietary user-space component. But fortunately thanks to the work of Linar and Red Hat on a "SoftISP" implementation within libcamera, it's becoming possible to leverage these recent MIPI-based webcameras on an open-source software stack...

The Ongoing Open-Source Work To Enable Webcam Support On Recent Intel Laptops  Phoronix

How to Use SUID, SGID, and Sticky Bits on Linux  How-To Geek

Along with the recently merged Intel OpenGL and Vulkan driver support for Arrow Lake next-generation Core processors with Mesa 24.1, it looks like the i915 kernel graphics driver support for Arrow Lake will be all-set with the upcoming Linux 6.9 kernel cycle...

Intel Arrow Lake Graphics Support Ready For Linux 6.9  Phoronix

Windows is getting its own Sudo command, just like Linux - here's what you need to know and how you can use it  ITPro

AMD's New Linux Driver Teases Possible Launch For Radeon RX 8000 RDNA 4 GPUs  Hot Hardware

The Linux Foundation Creates an Alliance to Work On Post-Quantum Cryptography  It's FOSS News

This Week In Security: Broken Shims, LassPass, And Toothbrushes?  Hackaday

Born out of the success of Fedora Silverblue and the other Fedora immutable variants relying on RPM-OSTree, Fedora has announced Fedora Atomic Desktops as the new branding for these spins...

Fedora Project Announces Fedora Atomic Desktops for Immutable Fedora Spins  9to5Linux

MangoHud version 0.7.1 improves popular gaming performance overlay for Linux  Notebookcheck.net

Helldivers 2: Does the co-op shooter currently run on Linux and Steam Deck?  Notebookcheck.net

While AMD ships pre-built ROCm/HIP stacks for the major enterprise Linux distributions, if you are using not one of them or just want to be adventurous and compile your own stack for building HIP programs for running on AMD GPUs, one of the AMD Linux developers has written a how-to guide...

Building An AMD HIP Stack From Upstream Open-Source Code  Phoronix

Merged for Mesa 24.1 is Teflon for Etnaviv NPU driver support in enabling reverse-engineered, open-source driver support for VeriSilicon NPU IP similar to the long-standing Etnaviv Gallium3D graphics support for Vivante graphics. Tomeu Vizoso who has been leading the work on the Etnaviv NPU support has managed to achieve another performance victory and taking the open-source driver performance closer to the proprietary driver...