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Steam Deck and Linux Gaming Compatibility: A Snapshot from Early 2024  BNN Breaking

Linux Could Experience Unexpected System Reboots When Pairing AMD Ryzen With Firewire  Phoronix

In the land of odd hardware bugs and interesting Linux kernel behavior, a fix was merged today for Linux 6.7 and to be back-ported to existing stable kernel series for dealing with a situation where unexpected system reboots could happen primarily on AMD Ryzen systems when using Firewire (IEEE-1394)...

As of January 2024 - 75 of the Top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

As of January 2024 - 75 of the Top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Cryptominer-spreading PyPI packages target Linux systems  SC Media

AMD's FPGA Plans, Linux And Cars  PC Perspective

Is Linux On The Rise?  iProgrammer

A change merged today for Mesa 24.0 is yielding much better Vulkan ray-tracing performance for the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" across a number of games...

How to save File in Linux.. | by Hariom Mishra | Jan, 2024  Medium

Canonical To Work On Improving Snap Support Across Linux Distributions  Phoronix

It looks like 2024 could bring improved support for the Snap app sandboxing/packaging format across Linux distributions to better the overall experience of this Flatpak alternative outside the confines of Ubuntu...

AMD Solidifies Linux Support with New Zen 5 Kernel Patches  BNN Breaking

AMD Zen 5 CPU Patches In Linux Confirm Next-Gen Architecture As “Family 26”  Wccftech

With Intel's 5th Gen Xeon Scalable "Emerald Rapids" processors that were released last month, in addition to the power efficiency improvements, faster DDR5 memory support, and other enhancements, one of the other notable enhancements talked up by Intel was improved AVX-512 support. Here are some benchmarks using the flagship Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ looking at the performance and thermal/clock/power metrics when toggling AVX-512 support.

Photo Privacy on Linux: How to Strip Metadata With exiftool  How-To Geek

As part of the VFS changes submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.8 merge window, a new "BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED" Kconfig option is added that allows controlling whether writes are allowed to mounted block devices...

AMD's 22-year-old GPUs are still getting driver updates — ATI's R300 - R500 from the early 2000s live on in Linux ...  Tom's Hardware

Ahead of the Linux 6.7 stable kernel release expected on Sunday, some early pull requests have already begun trickling in for the Linux 6.8 merge window to follow. The SLAB updates were sent to Linus Torvalds on Friday in preparing for this next kernel cycle...

Linux 6.8 To Drop SLAB While Delivering A SLUB Optimization: 34% Micro-Benchmark Win  Phoronix