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Merged today to Wayland-Protocols is xdg-toplevel-drag, the protocol that's been under discussion for the past nine months for handling applications that request a window is moved at the same time as a drag operation...

While there is the initial Wine Wayland driver found in the recently minted Wine 9.0 stable release, the driver isn't yet complete for offering a native Wayland experience for Windows games and applications running on Linux...

Wine On Wayland This Year Aims For OpenGL Support, Window Minimization  Phoronix

Wayland Driver for Wine to Get OpenGL Support and Many New Features in 2024  9to5Linux

Wayland Driver for Wine to Get OpenGL Support and Many New Features in 2024  9to5Linux

LicheeRV Nano: Affordable Thumb-Sized Embedded Computer with Upcoming Linux Support  LinuxGizmos.com

AMD's GPUOpen crew today released HIP RT 2.2 as the newest version of this ray-tracing library for HIP...

For fans of the Ubuntu Touch platform maintained by UBports for enjoying Linux on tablets and smartphones is out with their 4th Over The Air update based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS base...

Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Released With Per-Contact Ringtones, Built-In Theme Switching  Phoronix

How to manage Fedora's firewall without using the command line  ZDNet

How to manage Fedora's firewall without using the command line  ZDNet

Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 Rolls Out to Linux Phone Users with Various Improvements  9to5Linux

With Ubuntu looking at applying their low-latency optimizations to their generic kernel builds in order to eliminate maintaining their existing "lowlatency" kernel option, I decided to run some fresh benchmarks looking at the performance impact of their low-latency kernel against their "generic" default kernel used on Ubuntu Linux systems...

Ubuntu Generic vs. Low-Latency Linux Kernel Benchmarks For HPC & Desktop  Phoronix

New State of eBPF Report Examines eBPF's Impact on Software Application Development  Yahoo Finance

How to Generate an SSH Key on Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

The GNOME project has announced the GNOME Project Handbook as a new resource for helping new developers/contributors get involved with this open-source desktop environment...

How to Be More Productive in Linux With KDE Activities  How-To Geek

Linux's x86_energy_perf_policy Utility Being Extended To AMD CPUs  Phoronix

For AMD Zen 2 and newer systems making use of the modern AMD P-State driver on Linux for CPU frequency scaling, ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) interface is being used. For managing the ACPI CPPC energy performance preference (EPP), Intel's x86_energy_perf_policy utility is now being extended to AMD processors...